Where does Donovan Mitchell live

Utah. Around a bunch of white supremacists.

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Utah. Around a bunch of white supremacists.

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fricking Joe Smith.

I assume this is referring to no knock warrants. Two white people in Pecan Park were killed in one recently.

He doesn't feel safe around blacks

To opposing players, not players on their team. Karl Malone loved it in Utah by all accounts

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If I was black I’d be afraid to live in Utah, especially as a basketball player where the fans there are known to be some of the worst in the league. In the Jordan documentary he talks about not wanting his kids to go to the finals game in Utah because of what the fans might do.

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Wait, why would you be afraid? Because of all the white folks?

You said especially a basketball player, so what you meant was any black person would be afraid. Why?

What exactly did he say?

I’d hate to see what he would need if he ever gets traded to Chicago...

A tank maybe?

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Utah. Around a bunch of white supremacists.

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Also know as, just white people.

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What exactly did he say?

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There is a montage of clips before every televised NBA game of players saying a quick sentence or two before it cuts to another player. Donovan says something like “don’t want to live in a place where it’s not safe to live in your own home.” That’s not the exact quote, but close.

And in context, what he’s implying is that black people aren’t safe in their own homes in America. Presumably, because of police or white people in general I’ve seen it 3 or 4 times now, and for some reason, his clip stands out to me. Probably because it’s disingenuous. There is 0% chance an NBA player in America is living in any place where white people are an imminent threat to his safety simply because he’s black. I’d posit there exists no such place at all, but if there is, he’s certainly not living there.

The fact is, there are tons of places where black people shouldn’t feel safe in their homes. And as an American—or just a human being—I think that’s incredibly sad. But it’s other black people that are the actual threats, and it has nothing to do with the color of their skin. The fact that the subtext of his seemingly innocuous 3 second statement demonizes me simply for the color of MY skin is offensive.

I don’t care what 1 person says—who cares—but how many young black men and women or children are hearing that, and it’s being ingrained into them, causing further future divide and the continuance of this perpetual victim hood that prevents any meaningful and long-lasting change.

And I’m not a pearl-clutcher that is so appalled by all this “Black Lives Matter” stuff the NBA is doing that I’m going to boycott it. Some of the pre-game stuff is too in-your-face and over the top, but I understand that most of the players are black, and that they are generally the least educated players in professional sports (because they’re mostly younger and the current climate of the best players leaving college after only 1 or 2 years).

So I don’t necessarily expect the players—especially the really young guys—to be able to succinctly articulate and express their feelings in a 2-3 second clip. But I do expect Silver and the NBA executives, along with the executives of the networks televising the games, to do a better job of filtering out messages that vilify people because of the color of their skin. I mean, isn’t that really what all this is—or should be—all about?