Jemele Hill
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691 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Jemele Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
I mean, I think for a lot of us who see athletes in that position, like he's occupying a very rare air is that historically he,
Some people consider him to be the greatest ever.
He is the leader in his sport.
He's the face of his league.
And that's a pretty cozy position to be in, just in the sense that you don't really have to say anything on the political front or the social justice front.
And people are just fine with you.
And there's an argument to be made that maybe you shouldn't given what your stature is.
But that's what I mean about LeBron kind of growing into the role.
Like, I think sometimes we have this false assumption or false expectation that as soon as an athlete gets a platform that they should automatically be ready to speak up.
And if we think about our own voices and our own journey as people who are in media, people who are journalists, it didn't come that way.
It had to come through experience.
experience had to come through seeing, it had to come through observing.
And I think it was the same way with LeBron James.
We had reached, in his mind, a critical mass point in our country where we had a leader in office who did not respect the office and certainly didn't respect a lot of the constituents in which he was put in charge of governing.
And I don't know if he knew this was going to be his moment.
I know that
Somebody in his position has to be kind of calculated about when you speak out, what you choose to speak out on.
But I think the moment came to him and he decided, you know what, I'm ready right now to really go all the way with my opinions about the president in a way that I haven't really engaged politically.
I know that they was doing a lot of work right there.
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