DeMarcus Cousins, asked Napear his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter
https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/nba-voice-grant-napear-opens-up-on-all-lives-matter-firing/The response was "All Lives Matter".
Chris Webber and Matt Barnes quickly weighed in and now Grant has been let go.
A white man who benefitted from privilege his whole life claims he did not know that "All Lives Matter" meant something sinister.
I find that hard to believe. It means he has been purposefully hiding from reality. Maybe watching too much Fox news.
But you'd have to be really out of touch to be living in America, working in a mostly black league, and not know the dog whistles.
PS. Phil Mushnick claims a week ago All Lives Matter would've been an ok response.
These days you never know when you’re a goner. You never know if your career and deeds — good deeds, well-intended deeds and honest work — will be hijacked by fringe lunatics or the merely wishful to publicly paint you as what they want you to be, hope you are or read online that you definitely are.
Thus you become a racist, because that’s a quick, effective substitute for reasonable, civil dialogue and for dealing with certain clear, present and often unpopular truths.
So the easiest, safest way to protect your career is to pander to those with whom you disagree, ignore what you can’t miss or simply run away.
Grant Napear, 32 years the TV voice of the Sacramento Kings, is a goner this week, fired from his gig as a Sacramento sports talk host and “resigned” as the TV voice of Kings TV broadcast because he’s a racist. Perhaps. There’s no evidence. But a knee-jerk reaction from easily frightened bosses (see: Doug Adler, former ESPN tennis analyst) is all it takes.
Set up by a former King, DeMarcus Cousins, who Napear had criticized for chronic malfeasance in disservice to the Kings, Napear responded to Cousins’ tweeted question about the Black Lives Matter movement following the alleged murder of George Floyd beneath the knee of a Minneapolis cop with a suspect record.
Like Hilary Clinton and presumably millions before him, Napear was naïve to the new presumption that “All Lives Matter” is now considered by some to be a racist response to the BLM movement. Seriously.
I remain unfamiliar with the preferred, non-racist response. But until this week, All Lives Matter seemed a sensible, sensitive sentiment shared by right-minded people.
FUCK YOU TOO MUSHNICK.
It has been known for a while.
White man defends white man should be the title of Mushnick's shit post.