AFP: LeBron under fire after blaming China row on 'misinformed' Rockets GM
Los Angeles (AFP) - Basketball superstar LeBron James was accused of turning a blind eye to Chinese repression on Tuesday after he criticized a Houston Rockets executive for angering China with a "misinformed" tweet supporting protesters in Hong Kong.
James told reporters that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey "wasn't educated" on Hong Kong and should have kept his mouth shut, as the outspoken Lakers forward waded into a charged debate that other high-profile NBA figures have shied away from.
"So many people could have been harmed not only financially but physically, emotionally and spiritually. So just be careful with what we tweet, and we say, and we do," James told reporters when asked for comment in Los Angeles after returning from the NBA's annual China tour.
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Update #1: Hong Kong protesters BURN LeBron James' jersey as he is slammed as a hypocrite on both sides of the Pacific and accused of pandering to China for calling Rockets GM 'misinformed' over his tweets backing demonstrators (Daily Mail)
Update #2: LeBron James undermines values he's espoused in most disgraceful moment of career (Dan Wolken, USA TODAY)
WNU Editor: LeBron James had three choices. Say nothing. Support the protesters in Hong Kong. Or condemn those who are supporting the protesters in Hong Kong. He decided to side with his Chinese hosts and condemn those who are supporting the people in Hong Kong. For a person who is always trying to cultivate an image of being socially responsible, these remarks now make him look like a hypocrite. Not surprising, he is trying to backtrack his remarks (and is failing at that) .... The Sports Report: LeBron James clarifies his Daryl Morey comments (Los Angeles).
11 comments:
LeBron is a product of American schools and American media. Nothing less than political buffoonery could be expected from him. LeBron is as indoctrinated as the Red Guards of China. You won't see him with Antifa or OWS since he is elite.
So Morey's tweet supporting the protestors in Hong Kong was "hurtful" and "uneducated" according to NBA Ambassador LeBron James. The guy is a poster child for the colossal mountain of ignorance, arrogance and miseducation among millennials in the US.
Busily digging the hole deeper on both sides of the Pacific.
Morey is a MIT grad and LeBron barely passed high school. LeBron is that fool who is in a deep hole and thinks the way out is to keep digging all the way to China.
He’s just another person that will give up somebody else’s freedom so he can make money. It’s funny that he is the word ignorance. Being ignorant of the fact how China could take away his freedoms if they wanted to. Him being a person who’s never had his freedom taken away in any meaningful way. I can see it now. Him screaming I have rights as he’s locked away without a trial, without a lawyer, without seeing his family and probably torture too.
There are Sino-African kids in Hong Kong. African traders move there and marry Chinese women. When Hong Kong is fully under the Chinese thumb will this last? Will the PRC discriminate and will Lebron feel guilty sitting in his hot tub in the USA?
PS: Some of those African traders are no prizes. They said if the Hong Kong economy goes south, many of them are going back to Africa without their brides or children.
The truly sad thing is that Lebrown has not even begun to recognise the racism he would experience in china if he wouldn't live the life of a privileged super star. He instead spits on the American flag where half the country (mostly republicans! )gave their life in the civil war to end slavery (slave keepers were mostly Democrats back then. ..it's fun to see how little Americans know of their own history and how they then pick sides)
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As a fellow akronite it pains me to say it but LeBron just got a mouth full of his foot. I bet his breath smells like toejam now.😁😂
and trumk supports????
jim crow came because of Andrew Johnson, gop
try google
7:21 PM
LMAO
#Fail troll
It is Andrew Jackson not Andrew Johnson. Dementia much?
"Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts, in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
Whatever, stupid dumb ass troll is better to be tracked than replied to.
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