This is not just an overreaction to this G7 massacre. But this guy can not get $55M per year. He has a lot of skill and is a great player. I used to prefer him to Tatum but just the bad decisions on the court are unforgivable. Also as a person, he is not a good dude. This may even be a rare scenario where trading him for a bunch of really good players may be worth it even if we do not get a stud in return that is on his level.
P.S. I wish we just lost in 4 after this being the outcome, at least Slow Joe would maybe be gone and we could have Nurse or a competent coach. I'd honestly even have Doc back at this point, which is saying something since the last 15 years for him has not been good.
It's fair to critique a player's flaws and he definitely deserves it after this game. I'm pretty hard on him and have a history of being onboard with a trade. But you don't know these guys at all. It's a reach to attack players personally.
The guy defends Kanye, Kris & Black Hebrew Israelites.. you serious?
Not to mention violent criminals and woman-beaters juts because they are black, and openly going to a Celtics games wearing a "black power" jacket.
If any white basketball player tried to defend a violent white criminal or wore a "white power" jacket I can guarantee that they would be suspended and fined by either the Celtics or the league, so I struggle to understand the double standard.
I'm not sure if he is genuinely a bad guy or if he's just a young and impressionable kid who's been influenced by the wrong people, but some of his actions and words are extremely off-putting.
If White people were a discriminated minority then you’d have an analogous situation but that isn’t the history in this country. White power connotes Whites over other races; supremacy. Black power is an equality-seeking message. Like it or not, America’s history places the races in a different mentality and makes the analogy you’re trying to make incorrect and poorly informed.
Whites in America - when the term Black Power came into being - had the power to legally discriminate. They did so (along with frequent impunity from violence) by refusing to allow blacks into hotels, restaurants, bathrooms, not allowing them in certain neighborhoods, providing them with poor schools, fewer opportunities, systematic and very directly racism. When Blacks began to fight back it made sense to gain power through messages of self-worth, messages of fighting racism as opposed to White Power which sends a message of blatant racism and supremacy given American history. Many Black Americans still feel racism is alive and well in America and that is why the reaction to police shootings/killings is so visceral. Doesn’t mean Jaylen is right in his reaction in this case, but your attempt to simplify through a non-analogous analogy neglects historical perspective.
America has a long history of racism committed by white people against black people. This is well known and well documented and nobody would every try to dispute that. Many people (including many white people, mind you) fought and gave their lives to help eradicate that way of like and to make sure it became history and remained as such.
We don't live in the 1940s anymore. American citizens today all have the same rights and opportunities under the law. Trying to imply that a black man raping a girl is not as bad as a white man raping a woman just because the black man's ancestors faced racism 100 year ago is disgusting. I guarantee you that girl being raped doesn't feel any better knowing that the perpetrator was black. Likewise the family of the kid who just got shot in the street doesn't grieve any less because their son got shot by a black man instead of a white man.
Crime is crime. Violent acts are violent acts. They are equally disgusting and despicable regardless of the colour of skin of either the suspect or the victim. Standing up for a rapist and woman-beater just because he's black is absolutely disgusting on Jaylen's part. He may be young, but he's not THAT young and he's certainly not stupid. He's old enough and smart enough to know better, so it's difficult for me to just shrug it off as "he doesn't know what he's saying so I'll let it go". He knows exactly what he's saying. Whether he truly believes what he's saying or just feels social pressure (from friends, family or other people with influence in his life) to say it is another matter.
Also you describe white power as a "superirority" movement and black power as an "equality" movement. I don't agree with that at all. Black Power is a black superiority movement, and I don't see how it is any different at all. They are both disgraceful, immoral and should be treated as such.
This whole recent concept of trying to combat racism by supporting different types of racism is one of the biggest problems with western society today. You don't fix racism with counter-racism. Just like you don't fix rape by counter-rape or murder with counter-murder.
Just about every race of people has been the subject of racial discrimination and violence by other racial groups at some point in history. Whites in south Africa, jews in Germany, Greeks by the Turks, Croatians vs Serbs - I could go on forever. If you allow bad historic acts to justify bad future acts then you're basically just giving everybody on the planet a green light to murder, pillage, assault and rape each other at will. It's a truly fudged up mentality.
The only way there is any hope of achieve "equality" is to stop judging people by their skin colour and start judging all people as purely by their acts and actions. The story shouldn't be "black man got shot by a white cop". The story should be "a rapist and wife beater got shot by a Police officer after trying to kidnap his gf's kids, resist arrest, and stab an Officer with a knife". The only thing that ISN'T relevant in that scenario is the skin colour of the people involved, and yet that is the one single thing JB focusses on. I'm sorry, but that is a problematic mentality and is the type of mentality that breeds hate, which in turn just drives further crime and violence.
