Kids of all races should not be influenced by these people…Just don’t pay attention to Kyrie Irving.

I agree that no kids should hear that crap but there’s a certain awfulness when members of a persecuted minority do onto others exactly what they complain others do onto them. While I don’t pay attention to what Kyrie says, I pay attention to the damage he does to others. His words, like the words of all slime-balls with a pulpit, influence others who do physical violence.

Ignoring that is not an option.

I especially enjoyed this part:

“When questioned, he filibusters and generalizes, occasionally starts talking about something else entirely. He chides the media, a remora-like monolith that lives in his imagination.”

Wait, is he talking about Kyrie or Strat??

He said that the N-word should be retired in toto. He seemed pretty thoughtful about that but hasn’t followed up on it at all as far as I know. If white ears could somehow be barred from hearing it, I’d disagree with him but they aren’t, so I don’t.

He seems to be a guy that tries to get engaged and that is searching, and so he lurches and moves on.

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“and that others are ready to take advantage of this spiritual thirst people have.”

Well, history shows us that humans are pretty naturally spiritual so if the superhero thing and its cosmos of the oppressed and their saviors doesn’t do it for him, to where should he turn?

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Kids of all races should not be influenced by these people. Two iconic moments in this vein for we sports-inclined X’ers were Barkley’s insistent, “I am not a role model” commercial (*) and Jordan’s observation that “Republicans buy sneakers, too.” It’s been all downhill since then — and if anything the players are less worthy of any kind of emulation now then they were in Barkley’s heyday.

Just don’t pay attention to Kyrie Irving. He doesn’t know shit about anything. Seriously, nothing. The odds that any black kid or any kid of any race is going to make it as big as he did in show business are like one in 10 million. There’s nothing there.

(*) A position to which he’s subscribed continuously since then, to his great credit.

That made me chuckle.

So I’ve been looking up info on this ‘Hebrews to Negroes’ film… is the main point of contention about how it says Hebrews—supposedly—”lied” when claiming the mantle of God’s Chosen People™ because Africans are REALLY God’s Chosen People™?

All of the other stuff seems to be run-of-the-mill conspiracy theory grist, like the 13 families (Rothschilds etc.) suppressing truths.

Mostly, it all just makes me sad that so many people like Kyrie are desperate to find a welcoming place and/or some historic point of pride… and that others are ready to take advantage of this spiritual thirst people have.

Kinda agreed with them