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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All of it is on us and we're the ones who are most victimized by what is happening.
And to me, what it does is weaponize a certain level of incompetence around people who are not Black, right?
It's like, it allows people to happily be ignorant
And they're never tasked and never get the responsibility of having to do and ask something more.
Because no white athlete is ever going to be asked that kind of question.
I mean, it just doesn't happen.
Like, they're not going to be asked, like, well, what do you say to the white people who say this?
They're not asked for the accountability of what other white people do.
And Black people are asked to be accountable for not only what Black people say, but for what white people say.
And when I think about it in that context, it allows me, even in moments where I wish an athlete, where I wish LeBron would have been stronger on something like, yeah, I still remember what he said about Tamir Rice.
To me, that was a missed opportunity and a failed moment.
But at the same time, I have to then have a dialogue with myself and say, am I asking too much?
This man is here to play basketball.
He didn't sign up to be some kind of activist leader, even though he's in a position to have the most change because by nature of his influence.
So I think we also have to understand it in that context.
I mean, I think the players were understandably emotional, but
because of the situation with the lockdown being in the bubble, I don't think they honestly knew what to do.
And they knew that they felt something.
They knew that something wasn't right.
They knew that something needed to change, but I don't think they actually had an organized plan of how they needed to change it.
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