Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Hold up, it's a lie that black people are disproportionately killed by police in the U.S.?
It's good that an athlete of LeBron's stature actually points that fact out. MJ, with the only care in his world ever being his financial bottomline, has never and would never.
Now you're changing the language.
Around 9-12 unarmed black men are killed a year by cops, some of which are still justified becuase the "unarmed" person is reaching for a cop's gun or something similar.
And black people aren't killed by police anywhere close to the rate you would expect when looking at violent crime statistics.
One thing is for sure, to claim they're being "hunted" is an absolute LIE. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
Now you're changing the language.
Around 9-12 unarmed black men are killed a year by cops, some of which are still justified becuase the "unarmed" person is reaching for a cop's gun or something similar.
And black people aren't killed by police anywhere close to the rate you would expect when looking at violent crime statistics. Not even remotely close.
One thing is for sure, to claim they're being "hunted" is an absolute LIE.
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Oof. Just looked into the full context. Yeah, that's INCREDIBLY fucked that LeBron didn't take accountability for his post.
It's objectively worse than anything MJ has ever done and that's the point, even if MJ didn't "speak up" on issues. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
You seemed to be suggesting a particular rate, which is why I asked.
No, but the "disproportionate" rate of them getting shot by cops is somewhere around 25%, while they commit violent crime at a "disproportionate" rate of around 50%.
I'm simply saying that 25% actually seems like less than you'd expect considering the disproportionate rate of violent crime.
It's just context that people like to ignore when they talk about black people being "disproportionately" shot by cops. [Reply]
I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY
LeBron saw something that was being spread on Twitter that was untrue, got emotional and posted about it, and deleted it once he realized it was untrue. It was a mistake that he was likely embarrassed about and a very human thing to do.
MJ would never show such character or humanity. [Reply]
I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY
LeBron saw something that was being spread on Twitter that was untrue, got emotional and posted about it, and deleted it once he realized it was untrue. It was a mistake that he was likely embarrassed about and a very human thing to do.
MJ would never show such character or humanity.
You pretending that he had no obligation to apologize to the hero cop that he tried to demonize is pathetic.
You can't even be objective about Lebron's actions off the court.
You're on an entirely different level of dick rider. [Reply]
Hornets Owner Michael Jordan Makes Record Breaking Charity Donation
Originally Posted by :
What would you do for your 60th Birthday? Maybe a fishing trip, a nice meal out? How about donating $10 million to the Make-A-Wish foundation? That's what Michael Jordan has done, breaking the record for the largest donation ever received from an individual in the organization's 43 year history.
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
We've been over that one many, many times. He got caught up in Twitter's propensity to blow up bullshit and deleted his post once the truth came out. It happens.
he deleted it because he was being ratio'd into the sun on account of being a faux intellectual shitheel.
He's a great basketball player and an absolute fraud of a human being. [Reply]
Yeah, that tweet of his trying to explain it away is pretty lame given the context that the original was just a picture of the cop with #YoureNext. [Reply]
