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Is NBA Star Lebron James a Victim of Racism?


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Front Page Magazine:


Is NBA star LeBron James a victim of racism? The Rev. Jesse Jackson thinks so.

When James decided to leave his hometown team to play elsewhere, the owner of his former team accused James, among other things, of “cowardly betrayal.” He felt jilted, and his team suddenly lost perhaps half its market value. Maybe before commenting the owner should have taken a cold shower.

Jackson, however, sees RACISM: “(The owner’s) feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave.” “Runaway slave”? The owner, Jackson implies, would have reacted differently — had James been white.
These are tough times for Jackson.

In post-Obama-election America, Jackson and Al Sharpton (the Robin to Jackson’s Batman) struggle with a declining market share. They are rabble-rousers in search of rabble to rouse, race-card players in need of race cards when anti-black racism has become an inconsequential matter. With their dark view of “race relations” in “White America,” they never saw Obama coming. They lacked the awareness to see that America had changed and that Obama’s election was possible.

So Jackson’s flying on fumes. Consider this:

In Oakland, Calif., a white transit officer shot and killed a black passenger. The officer claims that he shot accidentally, that he intended to reach for his Taser and instead pulled out and fired his gun.

A jury — with no blacks — found the former officer guilty of involuntary manslaughter rather than second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter. The sentence can range from probation to 14 years with the gun enhancement charge. The minimum for second-degree murder is 15 years. Post-verdict riots in Oakland resulted in the arrests of over 80 people.

Where were Jackson & Sharpton? Neither said much about the case, let alone jetted in to lead a protest. Did they keep quiet because the jury reached a reasonable and certainly defensible verdict? Even the liberal San Francisco Chronicle called the verdict “consistent with the evidence.” Did the duo keep quiet because they said nothing when two young black men were arrested for the April fatal beating of Tian Sheng Yu, a 59-year-old immigrant from China who was in downtown Oakland on a shopping trip?snip
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