It was revealed last week that Jerry Jones attended a protest against desegregation in 1957, which the billionaire owner of the world’s most valuable sports team chalked up to his teenage curiosity.
last week a photo depicting a teenaged Jones overlooking a menacing group of White boys blocking Black students from desegregating Jones’ Arkansas high school in 1957, with Jones confirming to the paper he was in fact at the demonstration.
asked reporters“But when the Kyrie thing was going on, you guys were quick to ask us questions about that,” James continued, expressing frustration at the far-larger controversy following Irving after the Brooklyn Nets player shared a link to a film on Amazon propagating dangerous stereotypes about Jews and refused to condemn antisemitism for days, leading to an 8-game
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