Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro fired Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James on Thursday after he suggested the Wisconsin officer involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake left his home that morning with a motive to harm ‘one of these Black people’.
“LeBron James – just because the man is very famous and very rich and very good at basketball, does not mean he knows what the hell he has,” Shapiro said.
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James made the remarks Tuesday at a news conference. The NBA has meanwhile postponed the scheduled playoff games on Wednesday and Thursday in protest of Blake’s shooting.
“You have no idea how that policeman left the house that day,” James said. “You do not know if he woke up on this side of the bed, you do not know if he woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Bed, you do not know if he had an argument at home with his significant other, you know not if one of his children said anything to him and he left the house steaming.
“Or maybe,” James added. “he just left the house and said that today will be the end for one of these Black people. That’s how it feels.”
“I’m not emphasizing how it feels,” the host “Ben Shapiro Show” retorted. “I like the factual facts of the situation. Feelings do not matter here …” he added, calling James’ implication an “object of disgusting lies” with “no evidence of that. [up]. “
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“The implication that cops wake up in the morning like, ‘I’m shooting a Black guy today’ is disgusting. It’s disgusting!” Shapiro insisted.
“It turns all Black Americans into victims of the police, which is a lie, and suggests that removing the police is the solution, which is an even bigger lie,” he asserted. “And it suggests that Black people have no office for their own lives in racist America … that’s the biggest lie of all.”
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Shapiro concluded that although “all these athletes have the right to speak – they are Americans just like everyone else – that does not mean they know what the hell they are talking about or that what they say is good for the country. . “
