On the 12 year anniversary of Trayvon Martin's murder, let us never forget @Amajorfucup
“There is a bigger issue in terms of being an African-American athlete, and the box people try to put you in because of it,” he told me. “And it’s always a struggle to step outside of that.” When I brought up LeBron James posting online a photo of the Heat players dressed in hoodies, with their heads bowed, in solidarity with Trayvon Martin, as a political expression, Bryant seemed nonplussed. “I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American,” he said. “That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.”-Kobe Bean Bryant, Generation X's finest.
His wife is from the same community as Zimmerman, so we weren't shocked at the time he sympathized with him more than Trayvon.
This is why when people disrespect real Black men like Bill Russell it pisses me off. Fans just forget all the foul ahit Kobe said, and did to real persons, real Black people.
Kobe versus Lebron as a representation of Black people is just not close. We give light to straight fuck shit with Kobe. This dude hated Black people
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