The movement was in response to the announcement from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty that a grand jury had decided not to indict the officers involved in the deadly shooting of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice.
James is no rookie to activism. Last year, he and his teammates donned black T-shirts with the words “I Can’t Breathe” lettered in white across the front. That gesture was in support of the family of Eric Garner, a black male killed by police in New York City months before. However, the movement has not been fully unified as some see the demand as too “big of a burden to place on one individual.”
This article appears in Dec 23-29, 2015.
The request (demand?) seems based on at least a trifecta of recent and high-profile activism — the University of Missouri football team, NBA players during the Los Angeles Clippers/Donald Sterling imbroglio, T-shirt protests that eventually made its way into high school games. Guest columnist Eldon L. Ham – in a Sun Sentinel piece on January 12, 2015 – provides an important historical sign-post on this issue in “Pro athletes should speak out on controversial issues”.
These protestors are stupid.
Get real you stupid Twatterers: He may be the King, but he ain’t Jeebus. Put down the pipe and wise up.
WouldLeBron walking off the court bring the kid back to life? Even miracles have their limits.
Chuckles the Clown