Posted on 06/07/2020 3:50:18 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, 71, says he’s “embarrassed as a white person” that a white man could allegedly murder a black man, referencing George Floyd, and suggesting such “lynchings” are commonplace in 2020 America.
“In a strange, counterintuitive sort of way, the best teaching moment of this recent tragedy, I think, was the look on the officer’s face,” Popovich said in a video posted by the Spurs, according to The Associated Press. “For white people to see how nonchalant, how casual, just how everyday-going-about-his job, so much so that he could just put his left hand in his pocket, wriggle his knee around a little bit to teach this person some sort of a lesson — and that it was his right and his duty to do it, in his mind.”
“I think I’m just embarrassed as a white person to know that that can happen,” he continued. “To actually watch a lynching. We’ve all seen books, and you look in the books and you see black people hanging off of trees. … But we just saw it again. I never thought I’d see that, with my own eyes, in real time.”
Floyd died last week after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck for over eight minutes during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage. That officer has been charged with second-degree murder.
“It’s like the neighborhood where you know there’s a dangerous corner, and you know that something’s going to happen someday, and nobody does anything,” Popovich said. “And then a young kid gets killed and a stop sign goes up. Well, without getting too political, we’ve got a lot of stop signs that need to go up — quickly — because our country is in trouble. And the basic reason is race.”
The NBA coach then told “white people” that it’s “on us” to call out “racism.”
“We have to do it,” he said. “Black people have been shouldering this burden for 400 years. “The only reason this nation has made the progress it has is because of the persistence, patience, and effort of black people. The history of our nation from the very beginning in many ways was a lie, and we continue to this day, mostly black and brown people, to try to make that lie a truth so that it is no longer a lie. And those rights and privileges are enjoyed by people of color, just like we enjoy them. So it’s got to be us, in my opinion, that speaks truth to power, and call it out, no matter what the consequences. We have to speak. We have to not let anything go.”
During the highly political video, Popovich ironically suggested he doesn’t want to “get too political” as he linked alleged unchecked systemic racism to the lack of anti-gun legislation.
Popovich needs to go wash some feet with his tongue.
Hypothetically, for a moment, presume that to be the case.
Some really interesting lists can be made about exactly which races are committing the most violent crimes and exactly which races are the victims of those violent crimes.
Let's open that door nice and wide.
It's better than letting the Burn Loot and Murder people keep their false narrative.
Just shut up and watch them bounce the round ball.
I wonder what the owner of the team thinks of him cutting his ticket sales?
You should be embarrassed about how you jerked Bob Hill around, you hypocritical bag of pus.
Popovich has been a strange bird for quite a long time.
Too bad he failed to shut his very stoopid mouth and let the world in on how very out of tough with reality he really is.
Hey Greggy Boy. Go play with your balls and leave us alone.
#20. SAY WHAT?? I guess this guy hit his head on the basketball hoop too many times and the netting choked off his oxygen supply.
No other logical reason for his stupidity, ignorance and asskissing, unless he likes being all three.
Puker up Buttercup!
Damn, senile at 71! Lynchings common place today? Look Black people I’m a pander bear pandering!
All White people with any self respect or is disgusted by the shame game should shun professional sports and athletes(some people idolize these idiots?), when their revenue stream and insane salaries dry up maybe they'll shut the F' up.
I am extremely embarrassed that he is a white person also.
We need to defend Western Civilization, not cravenly cede it to the Barbarians.
What a moronic tool this Popobitch guy is.
Why don’t these morons take a look at the evidence of exactly happened before shooting their mouths off and looking like an idiot.
There was no lynching, the officer used a very controversial procedure that has been controversial for a long time resulting in deaths of both white and black people,it was not racial, just keep your mouth shut until the trial starts and listen to both sides before you make a fool of yourself
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.