Mother Of Tamir Rice: ‘It’s Quite Sad’ LeBron Hasn’t Addressed Son's Death

[Ajackson17]

Why are athletes are looked as our political, social, and economic leaders? No one in the world looks at people who ware skilled at using their body in ways the average people can't. They look at people are skilled and great in the mind, not the body.

Let's see what Dr. Boyce Watkins, Professor James Smalls, and etc who are devoted to those areas. All of them will have something clearly more potent than what the average athlete has to say.

Black history says different though. Ask, Muhammed Ali, Jim Brown, Harry Belafonte, Paul Robeson, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, KRS-1, Africa Bambattaa, etc etc..

Saaaaaammeeee position. Might spread awareness, but if you want real production again you need someone who is this their personal job and skill.

 

[not_osirus_jenkins]

I don't know about any of you, but if a cop kills my kid I'm catching a body...don't need for anyone to speak up for mines. I'd let my gun do the talking.

 

[ReppinTime]

LeBron spoke on it when it happened now he don't know anything. Her quote is correct. She just shouldn't have said it publicly.

 

[iron man1]

She should be calling out the officers who opened fire on her son in cold blood, the dispatcher, and the individual who made the bullshit complaint in the first place.

 

[iron man1]

After hearing RZA speak we need to stop asking celebrities shit

They may be entertaining

But that doesn't mean we need to hear their opinion

Holy shit a wild Haute appears!

 

[Stiff]

It's interesting how different the people of Cleveland responded to the death of Tamir Rice and the people of Chicago responded to the death of Laquan Mcdaniels...

Chicago protestors demanded for the police chief to step down...and he did. Now they're calling for the mayor's resignation..

Cleveland protestors want Lebron James to...sit out a game or send a tweet or something? I don't know what they want from that guy. All I know is the mayor of Cleveland (whose name I don't even know) is sitting back watching all this like "good keep the pressure on that nigga don't even look over here" Nobody expects shit from Derrick Rose or his knees

 

[Already Home_17]

we got niggas in here saying "she should be going after the police who killed her son"?

the fuck you think she's been doing for the last 14 months?

yall niggas are as clueless as lebron

 

[ThaNubianGod]

we got niggas in here saying "she should be going after the police who killed her son"?

the fuck you think she's been doing for the last 14 months?

yall niggas are as clueless as lebron

So what is Lebron supposed to do? He could threaten to retire and there still won't be any charges, that's not how the courts work. Like Stiff said above, it's the politicians like the Mayor, DA, etc. who are the issue.

 

[7figz]

If all she said was:

“I think it’s quite sad that LeBron hasn’t spoken out about my son,” Rice said in an interview on NewsOne. “I’m not asking him to sit out a game. I know his kids got to eat too, but you can at least put on a shirt or something. Some of the other athletes, some of them have said something, some of them haven’t. I think they should just make a statement. I'm not asking nobody to quit their job or anything, but make a statement for us black people out here.”

Then WTF are ya'll whining about about ?

Did she ask him to quit his job ?

 

[Already Home_17]

we got niggas in here saying "she should be going after the police who killed her son"?

the fuck you think she's been doing for the last 14 months?

yall niggas are as clueless as lebron

So what is Lebron supposed to do?

lebron doesn't have to do anything

but other athletes from Cleveland (CB from the Browns) spoke on the issue although they didn't have to. Black men speaking out against the killing of black boys by the police is the least they can do

and Lebrons excuse is he didn't know? he wasn't knowledgable?

eh...he needs more people

 

[CockMcStuffins]

I'll remember this thread the next time y'all niggas complain about Jordan or kobe not doing enough socially.....

 

[Shizlansky]

I'll remember this thread the next time y'all niggas complain about Jordan or kobe not doing enough socially.....

LBJ spoke on a cpl black issues though.

 

[ThaNubianGod]

we got niggas in here saying "she should be going after the police who killed her son"?

the fuck you think she's been doing for the last 14 months?

yall niggas are as clueless as lebron

So what is Lebron supposed to do?

lebron doesn't have to do anything

but other athletes from Cleveland (CB from the Browns) spoke on the issue although they didn't have to. Black men speaking out against the killing of black boys by the police is the least they can do

and Lebrons excuse is he didn't know? he wasn't knowledgable?

eh...he needs more people

No, people should instead look at elected officials who actually hold power. Hell, why has Obama been quiet about Chicago and the Laquain McDonald case? His boy Rahm held the video back and people are calling for him to go....so why is no one calling the president out for only saying he was "deeply disturbed" by the video a couple months ago? He can hold a BS townhall on gun violence, but not come out against Rahm since their buddies?

But hey, let's harass Lebron. And this is coming from the biggest Lebron hater you'll find.

 

[ZydecoShawty]

So, I take it that she's not gonna file a civil suit against the city and it's police department?

 

[not_osirus_jenkins]

we got niggas in here saying "she should be going after the police who killed her son"?

the fuck you think she's been doing for the last 14 months?

yall niggas are as clueless as lebron

So what is Lebron supposed to do?

lebron doesn't have to do anything

but other athletes from Cleveland (CB from the Browns) spoke on the issue although they didn't have to. Black men speaking out against the killing of black boys by the police is the least they can do

and Lebrons excuse is he didn't know? he wasn't knowledgable?

eh...he needs more people

nah, telling another man something is the least they can do is bullshit. He doesn't HAVE to say anything. Not his child. Would it be nice, yeah. But its not his responsibility. This nigga bounces a ball for a living. She should be asking why the black officers haven't spoken out and the black political leaders in ohio.

 

[Like Water]

It's interesting how different the people of Cleveland responded to the death of Tamir Rice and the people of Chicago responded to the death of Laquan Mcdaniels...

Chicago protestors demanded for the police chief to step down...and he did. Now they're calling for the mayor's resignation..

Cleveland protestors want Lebron James to...sit out a game or send a tweet or something? I don't know what they want from that guy. All I know is the mayor of Cleveland (whose name I don't even know) is sitting back watching all this like "good keep the pressure on that nigga don't even look over here" Nobody expects shit from Derrick Rose or his knees

Nigga... I'ma Clevelander and I barely know the name of our mayor. (It's Frank Jackson, btw.) Nigga been in office for like a decade and I still can't name a single, tangible thing he's done with his time there.

As far as what Clevelanders are doing in reaponse, I don't know what to tell you. I went to a protest/march when it first happened, and it felt good to show some solidarity, but it didn't really accomplish anything, imo. We had a bunch of people stage a "die-in" at McGinty's home, but I don't know what that's supposed to do either.

It's just disheartening because everything is in disarray. Shit like Tamir's case keeps happening nationwide, so one victim rarely receives more than a couple months attention at most. Black people already have a difficult time as is banding together, and add the frequency with which this stuff occurs, and you just have a bunch of people scrambling to keep up.

I ain't care for Lebron's response to the shit either, but I can't knock that man like that. He's still doing quite a bit for black folks in NE Ohio, so it is what it is.

People keep bringing up Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, and I wish we could get back to that, but us, as a people, were much more cohesive back then. We're spread very thin now and have too many white minds in black skin for our athletes to stick their necks out like that.

We can't expect our athletes to sacrifice for us if we're not even willing to sacrifice for ourselves.

 

[d.green]

In her mind, she's probably thinking its a slap in the face as her son is from Cleveland and Trayvon Martin and others LBJ spoke on or wore a t-shirt for are from elsewhere. Not saying this is right or wrong but probably what she is thinking as well.

 

[cannonspike1994]

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Lebron just got that big lifetime contract from Nike. He really can't say too much these days. Somebody put her up to this dumb shit anyway.

How the fuck are you a millionare and a coward. poor niggas are able to say more than millionare niggas. I thought money = power.

 

[Already Home_17]

we got niggas in here saying "she should be going after the police who killed her son"?

the fuck you think she's been doing for the last 14 months?

yall niggas are as clueless as lebron

So what is Lebron supposed to do?

lebron doesn't have to do anything

but other athletes from Cleveland (CB from the Browns) spoke on the issue although they didn't have to. Black men speaking out against the killing of black boys by the police is the least they can do

and Lebrons excuse is he didn't know? he wasn't knowledgable?

eh...he needs more people

nah, telling another man something is the least they can do is bullshit. He doesn't HAVE to say anything. Not his child. Would it be nice, yeah. But its not his responsibility. This nigga bounces a ball for a living. She should be asking why the black officers haven't spoken out and the black political leaders in ohio.

its not our child either but we spoke on it. the majority of us on this board are black men. tamir couldve been our son, little brother, nephew, or even us when we were his age. i dont care what lebron does for a living. he's a black man first. he has black sons. this affects him and every other black person in this country.

a black child gets gunned down by the police...and niggas are debating whether or not black people have to speak out

"well lebron doesnt HAVE to say anything..."

i even caught myself saying that shit

black entertainers, black community leaders, whatever

they should all be speaking out against this shit imo

 

[playmaker88]

Lebron just got that big lifetime contract from Nike. He really can't say too much these days. Somebody put her up to this dumb shit anyway.

People love to run with this narrative its just not true. He chooses not to.