Whitey Ford
06-03-2020, 04:55 AM
NBA coaches intent on using ‘power and platform to affect change’
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NBA coaches are taking a stand.
Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce last week spoke out against racism and the case of George Floyd, who died May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer was recorded pressing his knee onto Floyd’s neck as he lay on the ground in handcuffs for nearly nine minutes.
As a member of a seven-person committee that the National Basketball Coaches Association created to discuss issues of race and solutions to injustice, Pierce, who volunteers with the Georgia Innocence Project and is passionate about using his platform to help others, is doing just that.
Monday morning, the NBCA released a statement on Floyd’s death. The statement was signed by all 30 current NBA head coaches and three former ones, and more than 100 assistant coaches. It begins with heartfelt condolences and prayers for Floyd’s family and continues: “As NBA coaches _ both head and assistant coaches _ we lead groups of men, most of whom are African American, and we see, hear and share their feelings of disgust, frustration, helplessness and anger,” the statement read. “The events of the past few weeks _ police brutality, racial profiling and the weaponization of racism are shameful, inhumane and intolerable.
Drop dead, niggerlovers! Hope ya catch the AIDS from your down low pals in the locker room!
https://www.appeal-democrat.com/colusa_sun_herald/nba-coaches-intent-on-using-power-and-platform-to-affect-change/article_762205d0-a51e-11ea-9346-abb356b63ce1.html
https://i.imgur.com/SkPkwfs.jpg
NBA coaches are taking a stand.
Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce last week spoke out against racism and the case of George Floyd, who died May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer was recorded pressing his knee onto Floyd’s neck as he lay on the ground in handcuffs for nearly nine minutes.
As a member of a seven-person committee that the National Basketball Coaches Association created to discuss issues of race and solutions to injustice, Pierce, who volunteers with the Georgia Innocence Project and is passionate about using his platform to help others, is doing just that.
Monday morning, the NBCA released a statement on Floyd’s death. The statement was signed by all 30 current NBA head coaches and three former ones, and more than 100 assistant coaches. It begins with heartfelt condolences and prayers for Floyd’s family and continues: “As NBA coaches _ both head and assistant coaches _ we lead groups of men, most of whom are African American, and we see, hear and share their feelings of disgust, frustration, helplessness and anger,” the statement read. “The events of the past few weeks _ police brutality, racial profiling and the weaponization of racism are shameful, inhumane and intolerable.
Drop dead, niggerlovers! Hope ya catch the AIDS from your down low pals in the locker room!
https://www.appeal-democrat.com/colusa_sun_herald/nba-coaches-intent-on-using-power-and-platform-to-affect-change/article_762205d0-a51e-11ea-9346-abb356b63ce1.html