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Basketball star Kobe Bryant is at the center of a social media firestorm after suggesting in a magazine article that the widespread support for Trayvon Martin was premature and that without facts he refused to show support for the slain teen solely because he's African American....Maybe it's just me, but I've never had the enmity against Kobe Bryant that a lot of NBA fans have displayed over the years. The feud with Shaq, the accusations of "selfishness," and all that. I can understand him wanting to prove that he had a hand in that first Lakers threepeat and could win a title or titles without O'Neal vacuuming up all the accolades and attention, and that a big part of that was him scoring a boatload of points. And once he got some talent around him, guess what? He did - back to back.
In the article, Bryant said the social adjustment was made difficult by his "growing up a little differently," combined with "blacks having their own way of talking, and I really had to learn two languages in order to fit in. Kids are cruel. It's always been hard."
Bryant added that as an adult African-American athlete, there's "always a struggle to step outside" of "the box people try to put you in."
When asked by McGrath to expound on that in relation to the Miami Heat's show of solidarity with Martin in the viral photo tweeted by LeBron James in March, 2012, Bryant ruffled liberal feathers.
"I won’t react to something just because I'm supposed to, because I'm an African-American," Bryant said. "That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we've progressed as a society? Well, if we've progressed as a society then don’t jump to somebody's defense just because they're African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.”
I would say something like, "And that has earned him the right to think for himself instead of being bullied into being a racist," except that EVERY black American has that right. Except it's not just a right, it's a duty and responsibility - one that is still being viciously and militantly shirked.
Just ask Kobe:
Bryant has incurred wrath from the left both in print and on Twitter following his New Yorker comments, Mediaite reports.Because seeking the facts - which is to say, seeking the truth - which is to say, seeking true justice - is....what? Beyond black intellects? A black man is not "authentically black" if he doesn't want to see a "white Hispanic" get lynched? Maybe it's the cornball in me, but that assertion seems not just awfully racist, but stupidly racist to boot.
A piece at The Urban Daily slammed Bryant for being a "jerk," adding, "Over the span of Kobe Bryant‘s career… we’ve seen him do and say some very smug, cavalier and even cornball things at times but the comments that he made regarding the Miami Heat’s support after Trayvon Martin was killed… by far takes the cake!"
The term "cornball" is often used to disparage blacks for "acting white."
Najee Ali, director of Project Islamic H.O.P.E., angrily called for a boycott of Bryant.
"African American youth should no longer buy Bryant’s jerseys or shoes and should boycott all products he endorses," Ali said in a statement to Fox News.
"Bryant doesn’t identify with the struggle that our African-American youth face nationally. So why should we continue to support Bryant who has never truly identified with the African American experience."
Because Kobe ought to know that trying to murder white-looking people MMA-style is part of the African-American youth struggle experience. The struggle, of course, being when the white-looking people attempt to defend themselves. If Zimmerman had just docilely let himself be bludgeoned to death like he would have if he wasn't such a flaming racist, Trayvon might still be alive today. So everybody burn their Kobe gear until he tracks down and offs Pau Gasol for trying to pull a Shaq on him. Or something.
And you know something? He just might:
Kobe Bryant ✔ @kobebryant
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Travon Martin was wronged THATS my opinion and thats what I believe the FACTS showed. The system did not work #myopinion #tweetURthoughts
C'mon, Kobe, you're almost there. A man of your resources ought to be able to bankroll the vigilante Black Klan manhunt it will take to find and liquidate George Zimmerman once and for all. Otherwise known as "finishing the job Trayvon started".
Otherwise, they just might come after you, instead.
Isn't "justice" a beautiful thing?
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