(02-10-2021, 02:45 PM)TXBamanut Wrote: I am with this opinion. I had hoped that he would come out and say that he was trying to avoid the inevitable clash of either denying rights that he was uncomfortable denying and making someone mad every game.
For me personally, hearing this today was like another gut punch from 2020. Why? Because I literally would have been thinking about this the whole game, and would be stealing my joy from watching the Mavs. It wouldn't make me love black people more or be more fair or equitable, I already try to do that, while balancing the truth that this country and its history isn't the deep pit of crap that people seem to making it out to be now. Everyone that complains has benefitted and if it was such a terrible place to live, we wouldn't have an overcrowded immigration issue. No one is swimming the ocean to go to the Netherlands, as much as people try to tell me there are so much better than us. (Also, none of that means that I don't think we have much room to get better or want to stay harmful in any area.)
I just don't understand why people are incapable of thinking these days in terms of grey not black and white. These are some of the one sided slogans that were constantly bombarded with.
-All Black people are either good or bad. (The same people that supported Jim crow laws are now idolizing every black person)
-All police are either good or bad. (the same people that idolized police on 9/11 are now calling them pigs)
-The entire United States as a country is either good or bad. (Again the same NFL that ran showpieces on the guy that joined the army and died in Afghanistan is now supporting disrespecting the flag that was wrapped around Pat Tillman's coffin (and national anthem)
-Not one ounce of real solution has been provided just a ton of slogans (very akin to my native Soviet Union). How to make decrease police shootings while maintaining public safety? How to improve the lives of Black Americans? No one has given anything but BS rhetoric.
There are wonderful ideals in the US equality being the main one. It is the #1 reason to move here. And while some groups are not treated equally in practice there are rules and laws that already exist to address than or there can be new one's enacted. But it is up to each individual to live life and form relationships, not up to the government or Mark Cuban or Lebron James. I personally agree with Morgan Freeman that the best way to end racism to stop talking about it. On an individual level stop thinking about it and just treat people as people.
Folks life isn't clear cut, and black and white. Its very complicated and very grey. And Cuban is an idiot for getting into this mess...