Where are the white athletes???

[maxrandb]

Tom Brady? Possible orange shitgibbon son-in-law? Still a Donnie Shit for Brains lover?

Aaron Rodgers? Come on down! Is LeBron stupid??

Mike Trout? You remember when president Obama attacked you using racist dog whistles... don't you?

Kevin Love? Got your former team mates back?

Urban Meyer? Can the media take a short break from trying to destroy you to ask how you feel about Donnie Short Fingers using racist dog whistles to attack a man who has done more for his community and State then you could dream of?

Why is LeBron relegated to only having people that look like him defending him?

Your silence is deafeningly complicit

[Trust Buster]

1. What has LeBron done in your opinion that requires a defense ?

[hexola]

2. you misunderstand...

[Trust Buster]

3. Oh, I think I understand all too well.

[Bob Loblaw]

5. I think the defense is

about Trump's attack on him. The question is where are other high profile athletes on this backing him up?

[dem4decades]

10. You missed the point.

[Iggo]

16. Whoosh.

[JI7]

4. i think white male athletes are usually right wing

[Blue_true]

17. Most of them are, as are White coaches.

There are exceptions, Chris Long, even Aaron Rodgers, though Rodgers is less public. The former Tennessee quarterback that became a democratic US congressman, Senator Bill Bradley. Of course the coaches of the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs, Bill Walton.

[bahrbearian]

6. Aaron Rodgers

https://instagram.com/p/BZbPT6blpQl/?utm_source=ig_embed

https://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-rodgers-kneeling-national-anthem-trump-nfl-protest-2017-9/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aaron-rodgers-stand-for-the-flag-kneel-for-the-cross-t-shirt/

[cwydro]

7. I'm thinking LeBron is completely capable of taking care of himself.

You think he needs some white person to stand up for him? Smh.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. That is not the point at all. NT

[maxrandb]

11. That is NOT the point at all, and I have some experience to illustrate it

The point is that bystander intervention and peer pressure is extremely important.

I did 30 years in the Navy. We did, and still do have a huge problem with sexual harrassment and sexual assault.

Believe me when I tell you that we made significant progress in combatting it.

A great deal of progress is due to increased training and awareness and increased positions of authority for women.

But what was truly game changing was bystander intervention.

We didn't just need training and empowerment... we needed people that looked exactly like the predators to stand up and speak out

LeBron needs someone other than Al Sharpton and Joy Reed to call the orange shitgibbon out on his racism.

We need that 78 year old white billionaire owner with silly hair and ivory dentures to call a racist a racist.

That's my point.

[mountain grammy]

20. Thank you, well said.

We need all voices on board.. speak up, speak out.

[Quayblue]

22. Thank you. Nt

[jrthin]

29. Well said. We need all people to come to the table to put

a dent in racism.

[EffieBlack]

26. Yes, he does

That's what friends and allies do. He - and, by extension, other black men - is under attack from the most powerful man on Earth. White people need to stand up and speak out. Doing and saying nothing because "He can take care of himself" is a cowardly, bullshit copout.

[orleans]

33. agree

doing and saying nothing sends the message that essentially you're okay with whatever is happening or being done. you're complicit.

if i knew jack shit about sports or athletes i would be more specific. suffice to say: white guys, speak up!!!

found this on a google search:
"Lakers Statement Regarding LeBron James
Official Lakers Release
Posted: Aug 04, 2018
"The following statement was issued today by CEO & Controlling Owner Jeanie Buss on behalf of the team:

“We could not be more proud to have LeBron James as part of our Lakers family. He is an incredibly thoughtful and intelligent leader and clearly appreciates the power that sports has to unite communities and inspire the world to be a better place. Those efforts should be celebrated by all.”
https://www.nba.com/lakers/releases/180804statement-regarding-lebron-games

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Is it really important that athletes form a rapid reaction team to Trump's moronic tweets?

He shat his meaningless little insult out a bit before midnight Eastern. Here you are, before 9am, calling people "deafeningly complicit" for not having leaped into the Twitter fight in the 9 hours that most people will have been asleep for.

All all athletes expected to be monitoring the shitgibbon's output the whole time and forming an "Athlete's League of Justice" in case the idiot includes another athlete in the long list of people he attacked because he's a spoiled brat who can't take criticism and is panicking at the state of Manafort's case?

I don't think it's really a good idea to get sidetracked into Twitter feuds of "no, he's smart", "no, he's stupid" back and forth. They are not going to get Trump impeached, or shitcanned with the 25th Amendment. They're not going to get extra Democrats elected in November.

I'll leave you with Douglas Adams:

The president’s job - and if someone sufficiently vain and stupid is picked he won’t realise this - is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the only man in history to have made presidential telecasts from the bath, from Eccentrica Gallumbits bedroom, from the maximum-security wing of the Betelgeuse State Prison, or from where ever else he happened to be at the time, was supremely good at this job.
...
The major problem- one of the major problems, for there are several-one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they're not.

[Trust Buster]

12. Playing right into Don the Con's hands.

He uses dog whistles to disrespect LeBron and Don Lemon. Some on the Left react by attacking white athletes. Don the Con couldn’t have dreamed a better reaction. Responding to hate with hate is never a winning formula. Don the Con sees everything as black and white. We would be foolish to do the same.

[EffieBlack]

27. Calling them to account isn't "attacking" them. They should be speaking up

[Trust Buster]

28. "They" should do whatever they damn well feel like doing. This is america.

[EffieBlack]

30. And this being America, *I* have every right to call them out as cowardly hypocrites

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for not supporting their black teammates who are being dragged through the mud, having their llvelihoods threatened, their lives put in danger and are being publicly, obsessively and viciously castigated and targeted by the president of the United States because THEY are doing what the hell they feel they should do.

But your concern for the rights of the silent white players who, God forbid, might be criticized, is noted.

[mythology]

13. The media isn't trying to destroy Urban Meyer

He looked the other way while his assistant repeatedly beat his wife. Meyer is a piece of shit human being.

But Lindsey Vonn, Steve Kerr, Gregg Popovich and Chris Long among others have spoken out.

[BannonsLiver]

14. Funny you mention Meyer

He’s doing a great job of destroying himself. Yesterday he admitted he knew one of his coaches was beating the shit out of his wife on the reg but did nothing about it. Real classy guy.

This is a really dumb, poorly thought out OP tbh and from the looks of things it appears others agree.

[maxrandb]

15. I forget that we on DU immediately judge and destroy

people before all the facts are in.

So close to the Al Franken character assassination too.

I mean, a guy like Paul Feinbaun has sooo much more integrity than Meyer

[Generic Brad]

18. When its time to take a stand, note who sits it out

Silence speaks volumes. I agree with the O/P.

[Scurrilous]

19. Urban Meyer is a POS.

Way back to his Florida Gator days and his coddling of criminal players like Aaron Hernandez.

[Trust Buster]

21. Hate to break it to you dude but Hernandez played for the University of Miami.

Urban coached the University of Florida. Character assassination without knowing the basic facts. Nice.

[wishstar]

23. You must have missed all the Meyer/Hernandez coverup controversy- Meyer did coach him 3 years

To set the record straight with some basic facts:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000216561/article/urban-meyer-addresses-aaron-hernandez-drama

[bdjhawk]

24. Hate to break it to you

But before you get so aggressive in attacking another posters judgement, you should get your facts straight. It is well known that Hernandez played for Urban.

“At first, Hernandez committed to play at the University of Connecticut[10] with his brother D.J., but ultimately chose to play for the University of Florida under head coach Urban Meyer.[14]”

[Awsi Dooger]

32. Biggest laugh I've had in a long time

To arrogantly assert Aaron Hernandez played for the University of Miami.

The gem right wing brothers Pouncey were among his teammates at Florida. They paraded around in "Free Hernandez" hats despite the landslide evidence

[EffieBlack]

25. Wow!

I just posted an OP addressing this topic. So glad I'm not the only one raising this question.

Their silence is deafening - and fans need to start asking them why!

[SweetieD]

31. A lot of the popular white athletes actually support Trump.

[SkyDancer]

34. Aaron Rogers

Is an introvert and tends to avoid any sort of controversy. He is not big on being in the limelight at all.
Just a FYI.