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    Rewind4ThatBehindMichael Harriot
    11/27/17 3:56pm

    Sometimes, all that’s necessary is just for a Black man to speak from his heart.

    It doesn’t always have to be eloquent. It doesn’t have to be precise. It just needs to show where his head is at after all his experiences, and what he wants to improve upon while embracing who he truly is.

    KD did that. With no apologies.

    That’s Black.

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      MajorBurn
      11/27/17 4:20pm

      Kevin Durant spoke from the heart and that was very powerful.

       Have you read Kareem Abdul Jabar?

      https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-hollywood-sports-learning-a-culture-ingrained-sexism-guest-column-1059416

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      BazBake
      11/27/17 4:26pm

      The real poetry is the blossom of truth revealed. Sometimes it’s beauty, sometimes it’s ugly. But a black voice just saying how it feels honestly is just that — poetry.

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    HuskyBroMichael Harriot
    11/27/17 3:06pm

    So if I find something that’s empowering to people that look like me, I just try to send a subtle message that I got your back and I hear you and I try to inspire you as much as I can from just being in this world as a black man coming up, even though I was looked at and viewed a little differently for it. But I’m still a black man. I understand where you’re coming from.”

    Kevin’s Mom is the Real MVP because she raised a good son. He’s the MVP because he listened and learned from her.

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    BlackMage2030Michael Harriot
    11/27/17 3:44pm

    I’d rather you tell me that you don’t like me because of my skin than hide that sh-t.

    All of this is swoooooon, but that bit right there: how many racists/not-a-racist-buts out there watch his games or his brothers in the NFL? How many watch them tear their bodies apart running up and down courts and busting their bodies against each other? How many sit back and cram food in their faces while these men fight their proxy wars? Cheer, sure. Buy the swag, why not... but they enrich the NBA and NFL and NHL and MLB and all the other acronyms and no matter how rich they get the players are really getting the scraps and most have to side hustle their bodies further for shit like sponsorships and endorsements. At least with this protest and the frenzy therein you’re seeing the ones who don’t care about the players as humans, seeing how many are that lady in the Friday Night Lights movie: “just give the n- the ball”

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      MajorBurnBlackMage2030
      11/27/17 4:16pm

      That’s part of why I don’t like sports. We’ve seen a bit of what boxing does (sorry, that’s a gross sport to me) then we find out about CTE and a bunch of people sitting at home not getting injured start bitching about how we’re all “pussifying sports”.

      They don’t care if people of color (or the white ones, I suppose) get life altering injuries, or die as long as they get their entertainment. They think of sports players like property and that’s why they’re so mad “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”. Fuck em.

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      BlackMage2030MajorBurn
      11/27/17 4:28pm

      Pretty much.

      They don’t care if people of color (or the white ones, I suppose) get life altering injuries, or die as long as they get their entertainment.

      Sports should really be a wake up call for unity and action between POCs and poor as hell white folks: high schools in the big shit football states (which are often red and poorer with shit education systems) tend to farm their players from black kids and white folks who spend their last dimes for their kids to “make it” with the wealthy/vested boosters cramming more into stadiums and uniforms than school books and lab equipment. Then they allow the kids to ‘roid up, devote all their time to practice and drills, get away with assault and even murder all to get into colleges (if they don’t break early) that’d spend more time breaking them further than educating them with the cast-offs who don’t make it through school or to a big contract going kooky with pain and CTE yet able to have kids and drill no lessons learned into them and start the cycle up again. But like the VA House of Commons with their slavery rules the wealthy and powerful find ways to turn shit into Us and Them

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    BrwnskngurlMichael Harriot
    11/27/17 3:34pm

    Fantastic re-cap and I will make sure my boys read the whole interview....I adore KD and I do adore his passion and his love for his mama.... 

    But I have to say this... If KD marries a white chick, I will be DONE! Just done...

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      comeonskipBrwnskngurl
      11/27/17 3:50pm

      i hate to always be the mixed kid who steps in and says this but, um, fuck you. the whole point of wanting to be seen as a human being and not less than includes being able to love who you love, and not having people like you telling anyone how to live or who they are ‘allowed’ to be with. If he marries a white man, ill have the same reaction as if he married a black woman ‘congrats on finding happiness’.

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      acmeindustriesBrwnskngurl
      11/27/17 4:47pm

      I read an interview with him last year where he was saying that he still feels super awkward and shy around women and doesn’t know how to approach them. I found that quite endearing.

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    BadOmbreMichael Harriot
    11/27/17 11:20pm

    He’s also - as we recently found out - weirdly petty AF in a way that is completely off-putting and embarrassing. Usually, we watch someone who came in with his bearing and reputation grow into a better person. I don’t know which Kevin y’all been watching, but I’ve seen this man’s character shrink and harden, and it’s been a really bad look.

    I’m glad he understands blackness; I’m waiting for him to understand what it means to be a good and full human being.

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      BadOmbreBadOmbre
      11/28/17 7:00am

      lol @ “tabloid media.” This millionaire out here battling rando internet twitter acounts with an alias and being petty AF with his former teammate. I don’t have times for excuses.

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    mtheumerMichael Harriot
    11/27/17 2:54pm

    Don’t just “Stay Black”, but pass it on. Be the example you want to see in others.

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    WokeLadyVeeMichael Harriot
    11/27/17 5:21pm

    Yep he’s a hundred 110% right and the beauty and his comment is the fact that it is simplistic and true. One does not have to use perfect English or be grammatically correct to call out BS. As a matter of fact, it’s an insult to our history and the human condition for black folk to try to beautify it in any way. BS is BS and racism is racism. And we KNOW it when we see it.

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