Reacting to the shooting of a black man by a white Kenosha, Wisconsin, cop, a tearful Doc Rivers, the black NBA Los Angeles Clippers coach, held a post-game press conference. Rivers said:
All you hear is Donald Trump and all of them talking about fear. We’re the ones getting killed. We’re the ones getting shot. We’re the ones that were denied to live in certain communities. We’ve been hung. We’ve been shot. And all you do is keep hearing about fear. It’s amazing why we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back. It’s really so sad. Like, I should just be a coach. And I’m so often reminded of my color. … It’s just really sad. We got to do better. But we got to demand better.
“We’re the ones getting killed”? “We’re the ones getting shot”? “And all you do is keep hearing about fear”?
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11 comments:
Unfreakin believable pure scums p of shite. What about the slaughters in your Ghettos compliment of your democrat masters. Total fools
Oh cry me a river - Rivers.
NBA players aren't chosen for their reasoning skills. Sorry to break that news to you who believe athletic skills = reasoning skills.
Do what a cop tells you. PROBLEM SOLVED!!
Guess it never occurred to them that a black woman secured the protective order he violated which led to the call to cops. The order was because he'd assaulted her in her bed while one of the kids was present. They were no longer together.
The NBA, top to bottom, is too stupid for words.
It's hard when you have white terrorists that are taken in peacefully but black people are shot for much, much less.
It's hard when you have white terrorists that are taken in peacefully but black people are shot for much, much less.
Not sure how to read this - I am going to go with if you follow police orders then you do not get shot!!
Acknowledging there is systemic racism is not calling YOU a racist. It is recognizing it is built into the system. You CAN support the police AND recognize that we need to do better, they are not exclusive.
Here is some contrary information that is easily verifiable that shows systematic oppression of blacks in America, sourced from business insider:
Employment-population ratios for blacks verses whites or latinos has historically fallen lower. Currently the unemployment rates for blacks is 16.8 percent for blacks versus 12.4% for whites.
High paying jobs, professional/managerial roles blacks are only represented 31%, 41% white and 54% Asian. More opportunity for "white" sounding names than "black" sounding names.
Blacks only make up 8.7% of CEO's. In Congress, only 10% of voting members are black.
Black workers earn only 62% of what white workers do, and black Americans income was about 42% lower than whites. Poverty rate for black families 20.7% versus whites 8.1%. Since the 1980's white wealth has gone up 17 times what it was in the 80's while black wealth has remained stagnant. Blacks have always been denied loans at a much higher rate than other races, thus home ownership is only 44% for blacks compared to 73.7% for whites.
In schools, advanced course credit in all subjects is split white 40% to black 23%. College degrees are white 35.2% to black 25.2%. Half of students in the US still attend either predominantly white or non-white schools. For every student enrolled, the average nonwhite school district receives $2,226 less than a white school district. Poor-white school districts receive about $150 less per student than the national average — an injustice all to itself. Yet they are still receiving nearly $1,500 more than poor-nonwhite school districts.
Blacks are twice as likely to not have health care. Lack of coverage is 9.7% blacks compared to 5.4% for whites.
Black prisoners are over represented in prisons by population. Whites are 30.4% of prisoners while being 60.3% of the population, blacks are 32.9% of prisoners while being only 12.3% of the population. Black men are roughly five times more likely to be imprisoned than their white counterparts — and nearly 13 times as likely in the 18-19 age group.
Marijuana usage rates are similar between white and Black Americans, yet Black Americans are 3.64 times more likely to get arrested on marijuana possession charges.
Black people are 6.77 times more likely to be under parole supervision than white people. They are also 4.99 times more likely than white people to be re-incarcerated due to "technical" parole violations, meaning that they had parole revoked due to minor infractions such as missing an appointment, rather than committing a new crime.
The data show that more than half of the people fatally shot by police in America within the last five years were actually white — but fatal police shootings of Black people were disproportionately high, considering they account for roughly 13% of the US population.
As of June 12, 2020, 2,469 white people had been fatally shot since 2015 at rate of 13 per million, whereas 1,293 Black people were fatally shot at a rate of 31 per million. That is not even a close comparison.
Fatal police shootings — 4,037 out of the 5,403 people fatally shot by police in the last five years — occurred when a suspect had either a gun or a knife.Narrowing the data down to fatal police shootings of unarmed people, it shows a similar story as the aggregate data. Of the 352 instances where police fatally shot unarmed people, 145 of those people were white and 123 were Black (63 were Hispanic and 21 were designated "other" or "unknown.") — that's a rate of 10.7 white deaths per 10 million, and 30.1 Black deaths per 10 million. Again, not even close.
Racist Icons > WHO cares ????
9:17 AM - I would laugh at your stats but they are to pathetic. Do you know the wealth of a lot of these oppressed Blacks? Check it out. Get real! There are many, many white people that will never see money like that. So as far as your story - "CRY ME A RIVER"!!! I AM SICK OF THIS B.S. BEING PUSHED. Some of the blacks just like whites have chosen their destiny , crime , racism , and hatred. If they can't get it free then they kill even each other.
@ September 10, 2020 at 6:22 PM
Sorry you don't form your opinions based on the facts and data.
However, may be you have better information to cite that refutes what was presented?
The facts don't care about your feelings. If you can refute or give better data I'm all ears, but your reply was completely nonsensical.
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