TYT: Will LeBron James Speak Out On Tamir Rice Travesty?
Tamir Rice was killed in Cleveland, along with a lot of unarmed black people in Ohio. Some are looking to Lebron James to speak out against all of the injustice in his city. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Devastated by the announcement that two Cleveland police officers will not face charges for killing 12-year-old Tamir Rice, social justice activists are desperate for a way keep their fight alive.
With that in mind, they’ve turned to the closest thing northeast Ohio has to a superhuman hero: LeBron James, beloved Buckeye resident, two-time NBA champion and periodic social commentator.”*
Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/12/29/activists-turn-to-lebron-james-for-help-after-tamir-rice-grand-jury-decision/
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. . . on this issue.
http://deadspin.com/lebron-james-doesnt-owe-you-shit-1750443307
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. . .there is nothing LeBron James, Steph Curry, Brian Scalabrine, Kobe Bryant, Bobby Jackson, Christian Laettner, or any current or former NBA player can do to influence the Department of Justice’s review of the case. LeBron James could wrap himself in dynamite and walk into Quicken Loans Arena with his thumb on the detonator and it wouldn’t move Tamir Rice’s killers one inch toward jail, and Touré and King know this as well as LeBron does. We do not live in a society in which a black basketball player can get killer cops sent to jail by taking a break from playing. Any gesture James made, then, would be empty performance, flattering Black Lives Matter activists for their ability to manipulate one of the most famous people in the world rather than recovering lost justice for Rice. It’s a waste of time. . .
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