Hornets Losing Fans because of T-Shirts

[emhoward]

KKK is a social issue too, and nothing to do with politics or religion.

I ask, again, would you be okay with a player wearing a KKK shirt?

The problem with your question is you're implying that a player wearing a KKK shirt is the same as a player wearing an "I can't breathe" shirt.

Off the top if my head I can only think of two similarities: One: they're both shirts. Two: the shirts are both politically charged. It's not the same.

[ThinkAboutIt]

- Cody Zeller being white makes your post inaccurate that all the players are African-American.

 

I never said "ALL" the players were black. I said black players wore the shirts, which is still true even if a white player also wore one. I commend Zeller for participating. It forces the critics to say some things but not others.

[ThinkAboutIt]

THE SHIRTS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE

The players wearing them have came out & said its about police brutality & has NOTHING to do with black/white.

YOU are the one making it about race. YOU are the bigot. Not the people complaining.

 

Yes, the people complaining are complaining because it's about "cops" and not because of the race involved in the cases. Sure. 

[Dexterity]

The "KKK" has nothing to do with "politics or religion"?

What universe do you live in?

They burned CROSSES for a reason. Members of the KKK ran governments too. You think "Jim Crow" had no KKK influence?

Yes, someone advocating for fairness and equal treatment ("I can't breathe") is the same as someone wearing a KKK shirt advocating for discrimination and unequal treatment?

This is why I wrote what I did, to draw out the real bigots like you.

My great (x2) grandfather was LEGALLY shot point blank in the head & murdered by a white man in 1920- 57 years after slavery was abolished- for simply walking off of a reservation.

My great (x4) grandfather fought against the Confederates & was later one of the very first men the KKK placed a bounty on. White men murdered his parents & raped his wife. He killed an estimated 200 confederates in the swamps of NC during the Civil War. The reward for his head was double that of Jesse James in the 1860s.

I know about Civil Rights. I've been taught the brutal history against minorities in this country. I'm a minority & my ancestors were a part of that crap. And guess what? Living in the past & blaming everything on Whitley & tying race into everything solves NOTHING. I feel sorry for idiots like you. It must be a really sad life.

I'm not a bigot. I'm just not a blinded, misguided idiot like yourself. I hate to tell you but everything isn't about race. A white man can disagree with a black man without being a racist. Get over it.

Those cops should've been charged with murder. They weren't. It happens. Black xops have gotten away with murdering unarmed white men- even recently. It happens. Get over it.

[Chuckie]

Funny how people someone thinks those dumb ass shirts is driving people away.  I didn't like the shirt and just chalked it up to dumbass ballplayers.

 

They need to focus more on their game instead of what they are going to wear and making a statement.  Getting the poo kicked out of you by 20+ points multiple times will drive away a lot more fans.

[WOW!!]

KKK is a social issue too, and nothing to do with politics or religion.

I ask, again, would you be okay with a player wearing a KKK shirt?

I'm not ok with them marching in Greensboro but they have the right just like the players do.

[WOW!!]

Funny how people someone thinks those dumb ass shirts is driving people away. I didn't like the shirt and just chalked it up to dumbass ballplayers.

They need to focus more on their game instead of what they are going to wear and making a statement. Getting the poo kicked out of you by 20+ points multiple times will drive away a lot more fans.

Now the shirts are dumb ass??

I love how some people can glide over young people being killed and murder by the organization who is suppose to protect and serve.

[Chaos]

Well, we know the kind of company Rick Bonnell keeps.

[PanthersClinic]

Are you fuging kidding me??

Dude shoots up a movie theater military style dressed as the Joker and he is taking ALIVE!!

4 cops can't subdue a unarmed man without killing him..

 

 

According to Wikipedia:

 

 

On July 20, 2012, police arrested an unresisting Holmes next to his car behind the Century 16 theater, moments after the 2012 Aurora shooting, in which Holmes allegedly set off several gas or smoke canisters and then opened fire on the theater audience, killing 12 and wounding 70.

[WOW!!]

According to Wikipedia:

Eric Gardner wasn't resisting nor did he look like the Joker and just killed 4 to 5 people. . But in your opinion it's ok to choke out the unarmed man but take the psychopath alive ...

[ckad79]

I guess nobody is supporting the Cavs either? hmm

 

The bigger issue is, we aren't winning. 

[Captain Obvious]

I'm white. I don't have a problem with the shirts or the fact they they wore them and more importantly the reason behind them. I just don't like my politics, religion  or race or creed or sexuality mixed with any sports.  Of course that comes in second to the Hollywood air breathers that think because we watch them in a movie we care what they think. I go to those things to ESCAPE the drivel and bullshit that we have to be bombarded with in real life. I like my Escapism without the side of Guilt or Protest or what ever. 

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I guess nobody is supporting the Cavs either? hmm

The bigger issue is, we aren't winning.

Only LBJ and Kyrie Irving wore the shirt, not the entire team.

[PanthersClinic]

Eric Gardner wasn't resisting nor did he look like the Joker and just killed 4 to 5 people. . But in your opinion it's ok to choke out the unarmed man but take the psychopath alive ...

 

Garner clearly resisted. It's on video. Refusing to put your arms behind your back and shouting 'leave me alone' is resisting.

 

Here's what happens when cops don't use deadly force:

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c27_1418772877