Lebron calls Celtics fans racist

[SHAQATTACK]

The fact somebody with his high accessibility to media says that tells me it’s pot calling the kettle black.  He not with out fault either .

[CelticD]

And said Britany Griner should think twice bout coming back to USA or something like that…hey James, bet you wouldn’t make billions playing somewhere else & talk the way u do here..I don’t feel sorry for her or anyone who break the rules overseas,, they got strict rules

Is this your way of saying shut up and dribble?

[TheBig3]

Guess he has no issues being part owner of the Red Sox and having Racist Fans

[timpiker]

The issue is, Lebron calls Boston fans extremely racist, but his examples don’t cite race.  He complains about a beer poured on him 10 years ago (classless and assaultive, but not inherently racist), and about fans wearing “ F—- LBJ” shirts.

Yes. This.  That's what I looked for, too.  If I hate leBUM, which I do, and tell him to go F himself, that is not racist because I'm not saying it because he's black.  I'm saying it because he's a POS whom I hate.  Why?  Because he did the BS with The Decision and took his talents to Miami and f'd over Cleveland.  That has never sit right with me and never will.  Just like Traitor Ray.  I'll never forgive.   I think leBUM's the racist.  Shut up and dribble, leBUM. 

[kraidstar]

So who are all these racists screaming out slurs in the TD garden? What did they say? When did they say it? Where was security?

I've been there numerous times and I know I'd be ejected in two seconds if I yelled a racial slur.

Are the fans raucous? Sure. Do they tolerate hate speech? Not in my experience.

[footey]

Tom "Satch" Sanders interview with Marc Spears last June:

"What were the race dynamics in Boston like for you in the 1960s?

Same as New York. I couldn’t get a cab to take me uptown to Harlem in New York. I couldn’t get a cab to take me to Roxbury in Boston after a certain hour — 6, 7 in the evening — so there was no difference. Racism was alive and well all over the country, never mattered. LA was the worst experiences in the world. Cops were ready to go to the guns. I remember we came up to LA and me and Sam [Jones] went to buy groceries because when we stayed out there, it would be for five or six days. Cops, all of a sudden, all the lights went on. Cops drew their guns and made me and Sam stop in the middle of the street.

We were only two blocks away from the Wilshire Hotel [in Beverly Hills]. They wanted to know what we were doing in that neighborhood. People had called and said there were Black guys running around. The cops pulled out their guns. We had bags of groceries in our arms. I never forgave Sam for one thing. He dropped the soda. The bottle broke and made a loud noise. And I was p---ed off because I thought we could’ve been shot with all these young cops with guns. But fortunately, I held up my hands and they didn’t fire. Once they found out who we were, they jumped in their cars and left.

All this [in] Los Angeles. When people tell me about LA, that is such bulls—. It’s one of the most racist places going across the country. We did Chicago. We did St. Louis, Cincinnati, you name it. We had incidents across the board, so when folks tell me about Boston, they only like white players, I said, ‘These are ignorant people.’ You don’t want to be in Los Angeles. You don’t want to be out in these other cities and towns because the problem is the same."

https://andscape.com/features/satch-sanders-talks-celtics-history-from-playing-with-bill-russell-to-why-he-likes-jaylen-brown/

[GreenShooter]

[RJ87]

So on my bingo card I have
“Boston’s not racist, you’re racist.”
“LeBron is the real racist.”
“It’s just as bad somewhere else.”
“Why is it always about race.”

And
“Well actually there’s very little overlap between people who are talking about this issue online and the problematic parts of the Celtics fan base. There’s also the fact that Boston has been outrageously redlined forever but you probably wouldn’t notice it unless you drove down the wrong street. Really this is a multifaceted problem that comes up often enough that it might make more sense to support players and fans calling this stuff out for being unacceptable than get mad because I, personally, am not a racist.”

Oh no, my last one is actually
“What a snowflake.”

TP.

The thread really should've ended here.

[Roy H.]

So on my bingo card I have
“Boston’s not racist, you’re racist.”
“LeBron is the real racist.”
“It’s just as bad somewhere else.”
“Why is it always about race.”

And
“Well actually there’s very little overlap between people who are talking about this issue online and the problematic parts of the Celtics fan base. There’s also the fact that Boston has been outrageously redlined forever but you probably wouldn’t notice it unless you drove down the wrong street. Really this is a multifaceted problem that comes up often enough that it might make more sense to support players and fans calling this stuff out for being unacceptable than get mad because I, personally, am not a racist.”

Oh no, my last one is actually
“What a snowflake.”

TP.

The thread really should've ended here.

Why?

[Celtics4ever]

He is allowed his opinion.    I don't like him at all, I think he is very talented but has a fragile ego, a quitter and he's choked a lot.   My opinions have nothing to do with race.    My current favorite Celtic is Jaylen Brown.

[GreenlyGreeny]

Thinking about this some more: Cannot help but wonder if in LeBron’s mind it’s racist for a Celtics fan to point out how he’s not the greatest player of all-time—that’s MJ—and he’s not even the greatest Laker of all-time—that’s Kareem or Magic?

He’s the greatest Cavalier of all-time. Isn’t that special? When LeBron retires, and that day is coming soon, everyone will shift to talking about whether MJ or Giannis (or someone else who’s the best in the world at the time) is GOAT. Your time’s almost up, LeBron. Too bad, so sad.

Regarding LeBron’s comments about Brittney Griner, whom I madly respect and feel great sympathy for: It’s an absolute tragedy—it’s absolutely shocking people did not advise her of the risks of playing basketball in a country run by oligarchs. You do business with bad people, don’t be surprised if something bad happens someday? LeBron ought to pay attention to that axiom next time he wants to consider expanding his business interests in Communist China. Some of us want nothing to do with modern-day slave owners, which is what the upper echelon of the Communist Party of China is. Just because they’ve contracted out the slave labor to seemingly civilized people in the West (certainly many people in denial about what the label “Made in China” ultimately represents because all they want to see is $$$), it does not mean we should not call it what it is, right?

We always hear about America’s past of slavery in the 19th century and earlier, but perhaps it’s time to talk about 21st century slavery in Communist China? Perhaps it’s time to talk about why it’s not right to profit off slave labor in the 2020s? How about it, LeBron?

[nickagneta]

Lebron is a dweeb and covered all Celtics fans under the same umbrella. Bad on him. That's insulting to good, normal Celtic fans that make up probably 99.9% of Celtic fans.

Now if he said: "There are some Celtic fans in the Garden that are racists", I think we could all agree he is right.

I know I have heard some fairly racist stuff at the Garden and was pretty appalled one MLK Day game where they had a moment of silence and idiots started yelling, to hell with MLK, let's get on with the game during the middle of the moment of silence. In a silent Garden, it was easy to hear and everyone in my section talked about the disrespect in doing that. You don't hear that stuff during other moments of silence that the Garden has.

[gouki88]

Uh, what? The implication being you're going to stop caring about claims of racism if they're made too often without satisfying some criteria you have?

[liam]

Celtics had the first black player, first all-black starting 5, and first black head coach. The city has had its bad racial moments but most of the folks I grew up with in Malden were not racists. I  grew up with black friends and multirace friends my whole life. To paint a whole fan base with such a big ugly brush is typical LeBron. He thinks he's smart because he's been successful but that's such an ignorant statement. I've never been a big LeBron fan and he just went down 60 spots in my book. Doesn't LeBron play in LA?

[Roy H.]

Uh, what? The implication being you're going to stop caring about claims of racism if they're made too often without satisfying some criteria you have?

At least from Lebron, that sounds like a reasonable approach until he gives examples of actual racism.