so I’m surfing yahoo news for interesting things to read.
I found this interview of LeBron James. I think he handle this extremely difficult conversation with class. If will be hard to pick out 3 paragraphs !
“I actually laughed, at first, when I first saw the reports,” James said. “And then I watched the video, and I saw exactly how it was put off. Well, first of all, I had no idea who she is or what she do. So, she won in that case, because now I know who she is. For her to go up there and say what she said, I mean, first of all, I would have had a little more respect for her if she had actually wrote those words. She probably said it right off the teleprompter. But that’s OK.
LeBron thanks her for giving him a bigger platform
“The best thing [Ingraham] did [with her comments], that’s going to help me, is create more awareness,” he continued. “So I appreciate her for even giving me even more awareness. […] This is the best weekend of the NBA, where all the countries in the whole entire world come and watch the greatest players in the world, no matter if they’re a part of Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and I get to sit up here and talk about social injustice, equality and why a woman on a certain network decided to tell me to shut up and dribble. So, thank you, whatever her name is.”
Then he talks about his children.
“I do it because I know that this is bigger than just me, personally,” he said. “The hardest thing in the world for me personally is raising two African-American boys and an African-American daughter in today’s society. It’s hard. […] Me having this platform, I’m just trying to shed a positive light on what I feel like is right. Am I always right? Can I have everybody follow me? I don’t think so. But I feel what’s right. I feel like, I’m looking at my boys right here, teaching them what’s right and what’s wrong, and we see what happens after that.”
The entire interview is important to read & I urge you to do so !
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