Popovich--“embarrassed as a white person”
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--“embarrassed as a white person”
I’d be embarrassed if i were he also!!! START GROOMING!! SLOB.
Hey old man, that is not how you spell PUSSY!!!
Yeah, I’m embarrassed that you’re a White person, too.
He’s just embarrassing. Nothing to do with his genetic background.
I’m embarrassed you’re so stupid, Popovich
Well, we’re embarrassed to have you.
The coach, not you, Marvin
I’m embarrassed that you’re a white person too. No, wonder they call white males, “white boy”.
I’m embarrassed that you’re a person. So ‘nba’= nuthin’ butt azzholes? Always putting labels.
He should be embarrassed about the NBA. It’s little more than choreographed fake sport like pro wrestling these days. And pro wrestling is Pro-American. The Chicom loving NBA is not, obviously.
This dope needs to immediately resign and demand that a black person takes his position. Anything else makes him a phony and a racist!!
He should shut up and go back to Isengard.
Yes you are an embarrassment please crawl under a rock
He even looks stupid!
I’m embarrassed for this old fool.
Stupid jerk.
AKA “Dumbf”
TRUTHS FROM POPOBITCH
“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.
“So it’s got to be us, in my opinion, that speaks truth to power, and call it out, no matter what the consequences.”
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