LeBron James on Kareem: “No thoughts. No relationship.”

[Joe Sixpack]

It’s not a move that I would make either but it was a different time. Some of the most historically militant Black people on record were/are in interracial marriages. They literally had to fight people to do it. Now you gotta fight to avoid it lol.

I don’t think we started having the ‘future cacs’ conversation until we saw how white washed their families became over time. And Black folks weren’t bemoaning the lack of men in the community back then either because it was pre-prison industrial complex and crack era. There was no shortage of Black marriages then. A lot of how we feel about this topic comes from the current state of the community.

100%

We are in dire straits

We‘re not getting married like we should..

People can talk that co-parenting shyt all they want and that‘s fine but the black man needs to be in the home with his wife and raising his children. He has to be there in my opinion. it’s critical

That’s literally the foundation of any nation

 

[DEANBIGBROTHERALLMIGHTY18]

I see what you’re saying but this is not the Jim Crow era LeBron is in and he can’t be blamed for that

Kareem came up in the 50s and 60s it was a totally different world

Lebron can't be blamed for being born in a different era but the difference is that Lebron waits until the issues are politically convenient to make a statement. Kareem has taken an unpopular stand on many issues when they were not politically convenient. That's the difference. As I said, I love lebron and he's a good role model to black boys but facts are facts.

 

[NYC Rebel]

I'm not shytting on anybody, Kareem is, if he didn't want to be compared to LeBron he shouldn't have brought it up.

Bro wrote a book and protested, salute to him but he's no LeBron James.

Oh please. Your entire job is to make it a LeBron versus Kareem contest, nothing more. You aren’t genuinely curious about Kareem. You looked for answers from other posters. you aren’t curious about historical scholarship about the Black experience, you aren’t any of those things. Stop pretending that this is something genuine from you. It is about putting LeBron and his achievements over Kareem and his achievements. Stop the nonsense. You moving the goalposts now from your “oh I guess that’s it” based on what somebody mentions in here about Kareem’s work shows it all

Any Black man dumb enough to think having Kareem’s posture and mindset around the most violent period of the civil rights movement where black leaders were getting dropped left and right shows a stark and bare shelf ignorance. They need to examine themselves. You really needed that shyt explained to you. shyt that literally ran Stokley out the country, got Medgar killed, others lives turned upside down. Kareem was uncompromising, yet you use and Weaponized LeBron’s easier and more PR strategic path to say hes risked more. And I see you this is someone who enjoys LeBrons activism

Its just fake as fukk.

 

[Harry B]

Kareem is one of few celebrities who calls out fukkery when he sees it. The rest of them fukk with whoever has clout and/or is rich. Rappers, athletes, actors all of them. As do fans.

That’s how all these rapists and shyt in Hollywood could keep on going until they lost their clout.

 

[Guile]

I’m gonna be honest. I don’t respect it and I’m particularly confused by how a black man who professes love for black people and the black community can marry a white person and raise families with them

But none a that shyt has any bearing on what Kareem said about Kyrie or his criticism of how LeBron handled the vaccine

They are going to come for you for this.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

They are going to come for you for this.

I don’t give a fukk

I say that shyt all the time offline and get challenged on it constantly

 

[fifth column]

Lebron can't be blamed for being born in a different era but the difference is that Lebron waits until the issues are politically convenient to make a statement. Kareem has taken an unpopular stand on many issues when they were not politically convenient. That's the difference. As I said, I love lebron and he's a good role model to black boys but facts are facts.

Lebron take action on a lot of projects for his community besides just the speaking out part though. I’m more impressed with people that are actually making things happen than those who bump their gums

 

[BobbyWojak]

you aren’t curious about historical scholarship about the Black experience,

Good lord.

The entire point of my comment was to call out the people acting like Kareem is Malcolm X and LeBron should be happy to be mentioned in the same breath as him. Both are great men who have contributed to the progress of Black people but if Kareem is going to throw shots then I'm going to ask: 'who the fukk is Kareem to disparage Kyrie and LeBron?' I can easily point to LeBron's tangible achievements but you can't do the same for Kareem, no disrespect its just different.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Good lord.

The entire point of my comment was to call out the people acting like Kareem is Malcolm X and LeBron should be happy to be mentioned in the same breath as him. Both are great men who have contributed to the progress of Black people but if Kareem is going to throw shots then I'm going to ask: 'who the fukk is Kareem to disparage Kyrie and LeBron?' I can easily point to LeBron's tangible achievements but you can't do the same for Kareem, no disrespect its just different.

Your entire premise was to weaponize LeBron’s activism over the activism over someone you came in here saying

1. you didn’t know what he did
2. Wanted posters to put you on.

Where… Is… The… fukking…… Lie?

 

[ajnapoleon]

He was a married black activist Muslim with a cac Buddhist girlfriend 10 years younger than him. Just running around LA with this bytch like you ain’t got a whole family at home. But hey he loves black folks so much. And look who called the shots

In 1984 she ran off with his money and married another cac. Kareem was 30 when he met the 20 year old, but said this about the side piece

Breh I respect KAJ



But let lebron did this exact thing!!!


They will have a sold out area and bring the gallows out mid court

 

[ajnapoleon]

I had no idea lol

I keep saying all these athletes entertainers politicians etc….

Would not have the area they have now if social media was around back then


It’s way harder now to stay out the

 

[Consigliere]

It depends, is this athlete claiming to be pro black criticizing what other people are doing to the community while laying up with a white bytch?

Then they are probably gonna get shyt on

Would you consider Kyrie to be problack?

 

[Piff Tannen]

I’m gonna be honest. I don’t respect it and I’m particularly confused by how a black man who professes love for black people and the black community can marry a white person and raise families with them

But none a that shyt has any bearing on what Kareem said about Kyrie or his criticism of how LeBron handled the vaccine

Say what you want about Kareem ex white wife but he has always proclaimed the positive impact that women has had on his life. Including reconciling his relationship with his parents and close friends after cutting them off when he joined Haamass. She also helped shed a bit of his introverted personality and introduced Kareem to mediation, jogging and his love of Yoga; which inevitably helped maintain and sustain an then unheard of 20 seasons in the NBA.

 

[Armchair Militant]

Bron is unintentionally hilarious

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Say what you want about Kareem ex white wife but he has always proclaimed the positive impact that women have had on his life. Including reconciling his relationship with his parents and close friends after cutting them off when he joined Haamass. She also helped shed a bit of his introverted personality and also introduced Kareem to mediation, jogging and his love of Yoga; which inevitably helped maintain and sustain an then unheard of 20 seasons in the NBA.

That’s great forreal

She held him down