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Spurs coach Gregg Popovich calls U.S. 'embarrassment to the world,' talks white privilege
Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:53 pm
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Popovich told reporters that Spurs players have his "full support" to use their "right and ability to say what they'd like to say and act the way they like to act."
He offered several more lengthy responses, including one about white privilege.
"Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that, but unless it is talked about constantly, it is not going to get better," Popovich told reporters. "People get bored. 'Oh, is it that again. He's pulling the race card again. Why do we have to talk about that?'"
"Well, because it's uncomfortable and there has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change. Whether it's the LGBT movement or women's suffrage, it doesn't matter. People have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people, because we're comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born white means...It's hard to sit down and decide, yes, it's like you are at the 50-meter mark in a 100-meter dash. You've got that kind of a lead. Yes, because you were born white, you have advantages that are systemically, culturally, psychologically, there, and they have been built up and cemented for hundreds of years. but many people can't look at it. It's too difficult... People want to hold their position. They want the status quo. People don't want to give that up. And until it is given up, it's not going to be fixed."
He called President Trump's rescinding of the Golden State Warriors' invitation to the White House "comical," because Warriors star Stephen Curry had already said he was not going to go. He also likened Trump to a sixth-grader.
Popovich served in the Air Force. He also responded Monday to the President's endorsement of NASCAR team owners who recently threatened to fire their drivers if they decide to protest during the national anthem.
"I just heard a comment this morning from a NASCAR owner and from Mr. Petty that just blew me away," Popovich told reporters. "Mr. Petty said people that act the way we saw on Sunday should leave the country. I had no idea I live in a country where people would actually say that sort of thing. Our country is an embarrassment to the world."
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This post was edited on 9/25/17 at 10:54 pm
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Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:55 pm to Bench McElroy
He's free to move.
Tldr
Tldr
Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:56 pm to Bench McElroy
Boycott the Spurs
Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:56 pm to Bench McElroy
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but unless it is talked about constantly, it is not going to get better
What the frick is he talking about? Race is talked about ALL THE frickING TIME
Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:57 pm to Bench McElroy
Damn, his SJW cuckery is seeping at me through my monitor. 
I feel bad for San Antonio fans that still has some common sense in them.
I feel bad for San Antonio fans that still has some common sense in them.
Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:58 pm to Bench McElroy
I wish we had the race relations of Jordan or India
Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:58 pm to Bench McElroy
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:01 pm to Bench McElroy
A rich white man talking down to white people about their privilege. Ironic.
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:03 pm to Bench McElroy
Pop with the mic drop
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:05 pm to Bench McElroy
It is talked about constantly and there are no solutions or ideas presented to fix anything.
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:06 pm to Bench McElroy
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"Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that, but unless it is talked about constantly, it is not going to get better,"
So....unless people divide people into groups and talk about the color of their skin.....racism won't end?
This post was edited on 9/25/17 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:07 pm to Bench McElroy
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Mr. Petty said people that act the way we saw on Sunday should leave the country. I had no idea I live in a country where people would actually say that sort of thing. Our country is an embarrassment to the world."
Funny. All those people that said they were going to leave if Trump won. Does Pop have a comment on that? What about that kind of country?
I figured Popavich would want people to be winners. Not take my ball home type of people.
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:12 pm to Bench McElroy
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Spurs coach Gregg Popovich calls U.S. 'embarrassment to the world,
Not really an embarrassment. I was traveling to Asia earlier this year. Everyone wanted to come here. Heard nothing but good things about the US. Not sure where Pop got his info.
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:12 pm to Bench McElroy
i just don't get how people can dismiss what he is saying because they dont share his opinion. He absolutely hits the nail on the head. jesus people. why is it so hard for white people to understand equality?
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:12 pm to Bench McElroy
There are some points in there I actually agree with but that’s irrelevant. Someone remind me why I should care what a basketball coach thinks?
Just another rich celebrity convinced their opinion is important
Just another rich celebrity convinced their opinion is important
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:13 pm to Bench McElroy
I've done a decent amount of traveling outside of the US.
Everyone in this country is privileged.
Everyone in this country is privileged.
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:13 pm to Bench McElroy
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"I just heard a comment this morning from a NASCAR owner and from Mr. Petty that just blew me away," Popovich told reporters. "Mr. Petty said people that act the way we saw on Sunday should leave the country. I had no idea I live in a country where people would actually say that sort of thing.
Really?
Your dipshite Hollywood friends sure informed everyone that they were going to leave the country if Trump was elected.
That's a pretty big endorsement that suddenly you hate an entire country because you can't deal with someone you don't like in the White House.
Talk about infantile Pop.
Libs come out and talk and think they are being so wise and measured and they just come off as more infantile.
Where were Pops comments during the baby-crying protests over free speech appearances like Shapiro?
Madonna is cool - but nobody else? I can't believe I live in a country where one type of speech is cool but another isn't cool.
The left is getting their medecine for trying to silence speech for years and for this past year. I'm not surprised Trump hates their arse, the entertainment establishment has treated him like shite from Day 1.
He's just another hypocrite. His dog lost and he's pissed.
This post was edited on 9/25/17 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:15 pm to Bench McElroy
Why does admit he he lets tony Parker give it to him
In the arse
In the arse
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:17 pm to Bench McElroy
Do I believe a percentage of Americans are born into a world of privilege and affluency due to wealth they accumulated off the backs of others?!? Yes. Do I also believe that skin has zero relevancy in determining ones worth? Yep. If I were to believe all of these rhetoric behind the protests then a poor white kid raised by a trailer trash mama is gifted an imaginary leg up on a middle class minority child just because he is white.
Police brutality is another retort, but out of 39,000,000+ African-Americans in the US people can recite the names of roughly 30 who were killed by police over a three year period with mostly arguable justification. If the police are purposefully trying to kill black people then they are at a 0.00007% success rate over a three to four year span.
Economic equality? Education is the number one driver for economic success in America. Public spending by race is equal to slanted towards minority schools, so it's not money. Could it be gasp!!! A culture issue where education is not prioritized and a culture where single Parenthood is upwards of 70% is negating time that could be spent helping and supervising kids once they are home?
I guess I just don't get what is being protested and how a poor white kid who's school growing up was severely underfunded yet still managed to get a diploma and then work his way through school to achieve more is responsible for any of it. Yet I continue to hear broad rhetoric condemning me and telling me how easy I have it because of the color of my skin. The protestors and protest supporters want an open rhetoric to make change, well seize the day. Tell me how my statistics and facts are lies. Tell me how the system and not the culture is the major roadblock to success in this country. Tell me how Asian Americans who were essentially enslaved and placed in concentration camps have found success, but the system is what stops progress for minorities not home and culture. The floor is yours.
Police brutality is another retort, but out of 39,000,000+ African-Americans in the US people can recite the names of roughly 30 who were killed by police over a three year period with mostly arguable justification. If the police are purposefully trying to kill black people then they are at a 0.00007% success rate over a three to four year span.
Economic equality? Education is the number one driver for economic success in America. Public spending by race is equal to slanted towards minority schools, so it's not money. Could it be gasp!!! A culture issue where education is not prioritized and a culture where single Parenthood is upwards of 70% is negating time that could be spent helping and supervising kids once they are home?
I guess I just don't get what is being protested and how a poor white kid who's school growing up was severely underfunded yet still managed to get a diploma and then work his way through school to achieve more is responsible for any of it. Yet I continue to hear broad rhetoric condemning me and telling me how easy I have it because of the color of my skin. The protestors and protest supporters want an open rhetoric to make change, well seize the day. Tell me how my statistics and facts are lies. Tell me how the system and not the culture is the major roadblock to success in this country. Tell me how Asian Americans who were essentially enslaved and placed in concentration camps have found success, but the system is what stops progress for minorities not home and culture. The floor is yours.
Posted on 9/25/17 at 11:21 pm to Bench McElroy
Pop is an intellectually dishonest idiot. He absolutely knows how black basketball players are treated in Europe. He knows all about racism in Europe.
Oh but the US is an embarrassment.
Oh but the US is an embarrassment.
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