Addressing the Kyrie Irving and Jerry Jones controversies, LeBron James wasn't really talking about Kyrie or Jerry. He was talking about you and me.
LeBron wasn’t really talking about Jerry Jones when he raised the issue on Wednesday night, though. He was using that picture – our reaction to it – as a lens into America's soul. It was brilliant, and made me rethink my own behavior in recent weeks.
When Kyrie retweeted a promotional image of an anti-Semitic movie, I was horrified. This was a month ago, and as it happened, the Pacers were in Brooklyn to play Irving’s Nets. The Pacers, owned by Herb Simon, who is Jewish, defeated the Nets. “It doesn’t matter what color your skin is, how tall you are, what position you’re in – if you are promoting or soliciting, or saying harmful things to any community that harm people, then I don’t respect it. I don’t condone it.”Four weeks later, when the Post unearthed that 1957 photo of Jerry Jones, I didn’t write a story.
"When I watch Kyrie talk and he says, 'I know who I am, but I want to keep the same energy when we're talking about my people and the things that we've been through,' and that Jerry Jones photo is one of those moments that our people, Black people, have been through in America.
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