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Lebron James Goes Off on Reporters About Jerry Jones Photo

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0:00 thank you [Music] so we had recently talked about you know Kanye anti-Semitism about ba and then one of the subcategories of that was Kyrie Irving everybody remember Kyrie Kyrie Irving not at all repost some sort of Twitter ████ just catch everybody up on uh this film I think it was called like Hebrews to Negroes or something like that right is that what it was called I think it was called that uh and that sounds like a joke no I think it was literally called Hebrews to Negroes and then it was like Black America wake up or something like that um that was the actual name of it and then uh there are some uh anti-semitic remarks in it so he also gets into this whole cancellation thing blah blah so through that people like LeBron James and a bunch of other like you know because it

0:50 was just like Hot Topics in the news even though they didn't have anything to do with it so to speak but they were you know they're influential and in kind of like very no names in the basketball scene they would be in post-game interviews and stuff and people would always bring it up because that's the drama everybody wants to talk about the gossip everyone wants to talk about the drama they want their takeout LeBron might have like 40 games 40 points in that night blah blah has nothing to do with anything but they'll be like hey what do you think about Kyrie Irving and his anti-semitic blah blah right and that would just be a thing nothing nothing really newsworthy about that that's just normal ████ that happens right and then recently if anybody is familiar with the with the Dallas Cowboys Dallas Cowboys Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones a photo had recently popped up that looks like this the red arrow is pointing to said Jerry

1:40 Jones jarrah if you can see that you wanna there's that I want to see it there so he's in the Crowd Oh that's old school oh no he's on the wrong side if you focus on what's actually happening in the photo this is that a school and there's is that the inner uh integration times where they were forcing it says it's in 1957. okay so you can basically assume what's going on you could see wow uh if you look close up you can look at the facial expressions and stuff like that and basically what people smoking looks so cool I know especially back then what's the coolest shirt it is it is the coolest everyone dressed so nice and it's really cool hairstyles their outfits are still like red shoes We're All supporting the wrong side right now okay all right point is uh they're talking about this photo showing the Dallas Cowboys owner as a teenager standing with a group of white classmates who were trying to prevent

2:30 six black students from entering an Arkansas School yikes this photo pops out you know obviously it's from 1957 so it's like something happened a long time ago people make mistakes or whatever but this popped up and it you know flashed in the news LeBron James has his terrific game just the other night uh post the game interview happens regular post game interview nothing spectacular and then it finishes but at the very end he's like whoa I mean he like wants to ask the reporters a question and he's like hey I just want to ask you guys a question before you guys leave I was thinking when I was on my way over here I was wondering why I haven't gotten a question from you guys about the Jerry Jones Photo when the Kyrie Irving thing was going on you guys were quick to ask us questions about that when I watched Kyrie talk and

3:20 he says I know who I am but I want to keep the same energy and we're talking about my people and things that we've been through blah blah AKA Black America and what you know they've gone through in America and I feel like as a black man as a black athlete as someone with power and a platform well we do something wrong or something that people don't agree with it's on every single tabloid every single news coverage it's on the bottom ticker it's asked about every single day oh yeah right that's true but he's wondering why he's not getting asked about this how come nobody's bringing this up house he cuts the checks he's been brushed under the rug so to speak and that became his moment to use his post-game interview Hot Topic times like by the way that up watch Bill Gates only get positive press because he ████ bought the Press yeah and doesn't out doesn't uh ████ Bezos own Washington Post now yeah he does

4:10 pretty favorable coverage there I heard is that what they told him we're gonna take care of you so after that what did the journalists go you know God damn right that's true well people were actually the funny thing is if you watch the interview you know people are already kind of starting to count to questions but LeBron's like let me finish let me finish and then he ends up saying he's like I don't even really care for an answer to you guys and he just wanted to say that he's like I just want to point that out you know what I mean because like for example Jones meanwhile has been under siege for the last few days after the Washington Post specifically published the controversial uh photos from last week the 80 year old though has avoided any punishment from the NFL while denying any participation in borrowing the black students from the school he said he was simply a curious Observer which could be true too because we don't know he's just there in the picture we

5:00 don't know what his intentions are yeah that's so tough we don't know if he was actually a part of the group that was like no blacks in our school or he's all like what the hell's going on there's cameras and ████ and he's like peeking over we absolutely don't know he he actually added during a different interview he said I think the key thing is for me is that it's a misread if you think that I don't recognize how Monumental those days were um so like obviously that he really could have been a bystander and that's just how the times were yeah but I think the point I don't think LeBron was even saying yeah exactly and the ball's not be like this guy's a racist guilty he's just more like hey we you know we get highlighted into everything if we remotely do something that's slightly out of tone and same thing with Kyrie I think his defense was that like you know Kyrie's not being like I hate Jews he just retweeted something that has potentially conflicting views or

5:51 anti-semitic views but this is like he's not getting questioned about it you know know what I mean and this is something that specifically has to do with black America which is like definitively like his history and culture so that's why he's bringing it up and yeah that's why I don't like mainstream media at all but then sometimes I wonder if it's like they're being puppeted or for them they're like oh that story's not gonna go viral but this story that's gonna go viral it's you know it's an athlete versus like a sports team owner like young people probably care more about the athlete well also let's be as real as we can right like like journalists get paid like a lot of times by the article that they write and like you know if you ████ with sponsorships or you ████ with like big players who can ████ with your sponsorships you don't want to even rock that boat that's why

6:41 no one wants to touch the Epstein stuff exactly and they don't that makes sense and especially for Kyrie too it's like I'm not saying it's fair for people to come down to him but like any chance they get they always go after Kyrie they have ever since he came out against the covered stuff yeah like any time they anytime they can make them look as kooky as possible no he was a vaccine I think he was too I think he was a flat earther too was he he must have been a flat earther I think he was I didn't know that so and anytime they can yeah but regardless of that uh just that very last thing that you had said yeah or that topic in general the idea of things either being viral like worth the news or like something that's not uh you know aggravating the sponsors or whatever right I think that's an interesting thing because um let's talk virality right um do you guys remember in Tick Tock uh

7:32 maybe like a year ago or something like that there was um you know black people were basically boycotting some element of tick tock because a black creators were talking about how they do all these like dance Trends or challenges and they they're the ones that are creating these challenges to like uh you know um different so I forget but it's the uh the white influencers who are doing those dance strands that are going super viral so it's like is it the algorithm is it the this is that how come it's only the white influencers that are going super viral with with these challenges but the people who created them the black creators for some reason they're not getting the same attention love XYZ or whatever and again yeah sure why can't why won't um China

8:22 Post Billboards of a movie with a black guy on it like who owns Tick Tock like like yeah I mean yeah pretty ████ conducive right there right like that's that's part of their thing for some reason like you know John boyega was edited out of the Star Wars force awakens poster it was China that's crazy like ████ he's a he's like the main star he like opens the ████ movies and all the whole goddamn movie but like yeah he was edited out of the post is that why he's not in the rest of the ████ movies dude he's like barely you know we should talk about that too I have yeah he was the most interesting character Stormtrooper then they just make him a side cheerleader yelling Ray the whole time ████ sucks yeah I was like what's really really weird he was Rob that is weird because they love the NBA in China and so it does make sense but it's also weird

9:12 how they cherry pick what they want to showcase but I guess more so like you know that just kind of like begs the question a little bit of like who's in charge slash like what makes these decisions that allow certain things to happen and again I'm not many I have no idea many people are critical of LeBron's lack of criticism in China so then this gets like really ████ weird like you know what I mean like it just comes in it just seems like it always comes down to money it's like if if Kyrie saying something ████ with someone else's money then they're gonna have to figure out how to how to put a stop to it or address it if that picture coming out of Jerry Jones ends up ████ with someone's money then they're gonna address it but if they don't talk about it it won't ████ with anyone's money so they'll just be like okay this is not causing any Discord people think that the world operates way too much on morality when it doesn't know special interest how dare they think that yeah I know but but like

10:02 common folks that's because common folks do operate on morality yeah they think they think that we operate on I ideally operate on morality but but in most cases if you think about the middle class worldwide right and and the poor the working class right like their value system respect system a lot of it doesn't have anything to do with money because they don't have money so what they value could be sports teams or religion or things that they value themselves in because that becomes their identity and they don't own property they don't own things that are okay give me the shirt off their back I mean dude you talk you talk about people who are like touring through some of these like countries where low-income people guess what they're the first people to embrace you first people to feed you yeah first people to close and because they operate on ethics and morals like that right they believe that people on top are

10:52 doing the same things which they have no ████ clue how they're being puppet is it's Elysium because it's like that's why you can divide and conquer if you have a sports team right and let's say like you guys are the Catholics or you guys are the Christians and you can make them battle or whatever the ████ it's like these different groups you can easily divide and conquer and then it's like everything else is motivated by streams of income depending on hey this the every single organization needs income to survive so if you cut that stream out you're actually ████ with these people Hollywood's terrified of the like the Chinese market as far as like oh yeah dude they ████ spread their ass cheeks whichever they want right like over here it's like hey guess what we're so proud of this movie we have gay characters and they're gonna kiss each other and all this stuff and

11:43 then internet's cut yeah and they're like so proud over here but yep not over there it's like pre-cut they're not cutting it when they're told to they're just like oh here's the movie they're being good boys China's down with John Cena and The Rock dude they're good that's Hollywood right there they just make movies for those guys but yeah I also think it's if you can't really criticize the Press about like how come you're not covering this it's like they're selling the news that's it it's not entertainment it's not that part of a story that Jerry Jones was found in a ████ photo way back but Kyrie just posted this thing and the timing with Kanye is awesome for a headline to be like hey you just remembered what Kanye did look what he did it like ties in perfectly it's selling news I do love him asking this question though the economics is both needed I love it yeah [Music]

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