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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And that's really no fault of theirs.
They're not professional activists.
Like if we go back and look at the Montgomery bus boycott, for example, that was plotted, strategized, executed two years ago.
And I don't know why we think on the fly that Black athletes should be able to create a national movement or create some kind of substantive change without research, without strategy, without talking to people on the ground.
That was just all happening in real time, and they reacted very emotionally.
And I know that they called Obama trying to get some leadership.
And if I recall, one of the main things, his point was that they still needed to play, that people still needed to see them.
I kind of disagree with that, but, you know, it's their careers.
It's not mine.
So I understood his perspective.
But I think it was one of those things where I'm not sure LeBron knew what to do.
And I think that's fine, too.
I think for when you look at the situation and again, I don't know if today LeBron would have that same response and.
Naturally, just because LeBron is in his position, that doesn't mean he can't internalize some of the same damaging tropes that affect all of us because we're conditioned in this country.
You know, a lot of times, because we're used to violence happening so frequently, whether it be state-section violence or intra-community violence within the Black community, our immediate thought process is how could they have prevented their own demise?
And so instead of saying, yo, it's wrong for a trained professional to not know the difference between a toy gun and a real gun.
And in this situation, to be so panicked and scared.
And with that, I don't even say panicked and scared because that lets him off the hook.
But to react that recklessly, instead of putting the onus on the adult,
LeBron's default was or his go to response was this is why I don't let my kids play with guns.
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