November 1, 2023
Oh, the melodrama surrounding “Kyrie’s Link”, and the avalanche of tortured condemnation.
We’re not onboard. Bored, fer shur, this is an old movie. But not onboard.
Kyrie Irving would never hurt anyone, Jewish, Black, Asian, White, Native American, name it: he would never physically injure someone, and he would never endorse violence against a race or people.
To extrapolate from his link and subsequent defense that he would is actually a form of racism, the new racism that casts people as racists because they see the clear economic demarcations that are in fact completely racial, and call them out.
Kyrie is a racist for the way he verbally and symbolically objects to the physically oppressive racism black people endure, but we’re not racists by settling for word cleansing, as we perpetuate physically oppressive racism against black people. Sorta like:
Jews: ‘Ooh, you hurt my feelings! Somebody might get me because of what you said.”
Blacks: “Ahm hungry.”
Jews: “How dare you? Do you understand what we’ve been through?”
Blacks: “Ahm broke.”
Jews: “Now my children have to read these words!”
Blacks: “My cousin got shot yesterday. He’s not gonna make it.”
Jews: “You are perpetuating hate and stereotypes!”
Blacks: “It’s hard to argue with your foot on my throat.”
Please.
Research the average Black family income and generational wealth, and do the same for the average Jewish family.
Deliver a few food baskets during Christmas, see how people are living with bare kitchens and pantries, no furniture or shades, empty fridge.
Ride around whatever you consider to be the “hood”, and count the grocery stores, pharmacies and banks. You won’t need two hands.
Don’t back down, Kyrie. Force the Cringe. Force the Awkward. Force the Dialogue. You’re not wrong.
