I don’t want anything to do with white people. Lebron James
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NOT a bad idea!
Your insinuation when you write "it would be similar" implies Lebron does not have that situation and is therefore not racist when he says "I don't want anything to do with white people"
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And DON'T forget the mayo.
Darth Omar
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I may be the JPP resident hillbilly but I spent three years leaving near Cleveland when I was a kid. Cleveland was a very racist place back then. Everyone was racist both black and white. I was too young to understand it at the time—I just knew I wanted no part of it.
Maybe Cleveland has changed since then [I would hope] but WV is nothing like that.
*facepalm*
It was his EXPERIENCE at that time in the black community that made him say that. And racists can change.
Quit being retarded.
HE isn't, but YOU most certainly appear to be.
Then why did he think that I meant that people cannot become racist if they weren't raised in a racist family?
cawacko
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Interesting. I didn't know you had some Ohio roots!
LeBron grew up in a poor single family household in Akron. It's not surprising to me that he didn't have many interactions with white people based on his circumstances. And he was in 8th grade when he said he had these feelings. Like a lot of people, once you get to meet people from different backgrounds and experiences we find out we have a whole lot more in common than not.
Interesting. I didn't know you had some Ohio roots!
LeBron grew up in a poor single family household in Akron. It's not surprising to me that he didn't have many interactions with white people based on his circumstances. And he was in 8th grade when he said he had these feelings. Like a lot of people, once you get to meet people from different backgrounds and experiences we find out we have a whole lot more in common than not.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Yes. But what you aren't admitting is the different dynamic has cause.
So what? He held racist views and they were his own experience. How does that excuse it when you faggots want to try to claim white people are racists for merely existing (systemic racism)? Why are you people so dishonest? I know you aren't this stupid
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It excuses nothing, dumbass. I was offering perspective. People change all the time. Going to HS and colleges usually does that.
Darth Omar
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Interesting. I didn't know you had some Ohio roots!
LeBron grew up in a poor single family household in Akron. It's not surprising to me that he didn't have many interactions with white people based on his circumstances. And he was in 8th grade when he said he had these feelings. Like a lot of people, once you get to meet people from different backgrounds and experiences we find out we have a whole lot more in common than not.
Well, I was actually born in Pittsburgh but you’re not getting the whole story lol.
I lived in a suburb of Cleveland. Akron is a little to the south and I have some cousins that live near there. Lebron’s attitude as an 8th grader don’t surprise me—from my experience.
And it was absolutely not his fault. As long as he didn’t carry it with him.
Yeah, that's exactly the point. It's a nothingburger.
Robert Byrd was a racist, wasn't he? And yet you guys keep going apeshit over that even to this day.
cawacko
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Pittsburgh?!?! Can I boo you?! Hahaha.
This is random but I have a buddy who's a big booster at Texas A&M. He gets to go to the events with coaches and players etc. He was telling me he would tell the coaches 'so and so seems like a pretty shy kid' and the coach would say 'he's never been around white people before'.
At USC they raise money for kids in South Central L.A. to go away from summer camps. The premise being some of these kids live 10 miles from the beach yet never visited. They've never been to the mountains. They have been exposed to very little outside their 'hood. They're ignorant to much in the world but it's not their fault in many ways because they are a victim of their circumstances. It's similar to what LeBron experienced.
Callinectes
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I find it interesting that no one ever DOES ask what these people "learned at home".
You can boo me. My family is a hardcore fan.