Comments on: Stephen A. Smith Please Dont Defend Kobe Bryants Ignorance.

By: Glenn Towery

Glenn Towery — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 18:49:55 +0000

I am a huge Kobe Bryant and Los Angeles Lakers fan but I was very upset when I learned of this statement by Kobe Bryant. However, it serves as a lesson I will never ever forget. I was guilty of assumption. I assumed that Kobe Bryant with all of his courageous acts on court and gifted skills at basketball was also a very intelligent man when it comes to cultural social struggles. My assumption was wrong and Kobe opened his mouth and showed me that. I was very disappointed in him and the lack of connection he demonstrated by his statement. He has been a Black man in Italy and America and has gone all over the world. I see, now that for his, I think, it is a class thing. Poor=Black=Guilty. Say-it -ain’t-so-Kobe. Say-it-ain’t-so. Awww but unfortunately it is. I am still a fan of his prodigious basketball talents, but feel he is a rookie when it comes to a cultural connection with his own Black people. I will pray for him. Its not too late. He can still grow and evolve. Who knows maybe this reaction from others will spur him to do so. Bring your head out of the clouds Kobe and take a good look around at cultural reality.

By: Broke Black Guy

Broke Black Guy — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:27:42 +0000

So why does the author hate kobe so much…… @doug “The problem is us” please be more specific than that please… e.g. What problem? Who’s us? Is “us” just an illusion? Who’s “whitey”?

By: Black Jesuscom

Black Jesuscom — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:20:48 +0000

Kobe Bryant, if my memory serves me right, which apparently
his doesn’t, was not only fighting for his basketball life
in 2003, there were large segments of white society who were ready
to lynch him. The only facts they knew was a white women had
accused him of rape. In their eyes, another big, Black, over
paid basketball player, was automatically guilty. Most advertisers ran
from Kobe’s burning house before they knew all the facts.

So while he says he doesn’t want to make a decision to support
and defend another accused Black person, just because they’re
Black, others didn’t hesitate calling him guilty just because this
white female said he was. There have been and are thousands of
Black men who were killed or are serving time based solely on the false
testimony of a white witness with no supporting proof. Kobe would have
joined them without his high priced lawyers.

I don’t think that this current feeble effort at appeasement will
earn him any more commercial endorsements or fans, but it
has certainly lost him quite a few. While he has proven brilliant
on the court, off, he needs to read a few Black history books.

By: Angye

Angye — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:12:59 +0000

I got what Kobe was saying and agree with him. All this other stuff Dr. Watkins is saying has nothing to do with what Kobe said.
What we need to be getting indignant about is black on black crime. It is shameful.

By: Get a clue

Get a clue — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 06:50:17 +0000

We are being annoilated by other blacks.

By: doug

doug — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:19:00 +0000

It is beyond sad that black on black crime is greater than white on black crime. The problem is not “whitey.” The problem is us.

By: James Davis

James Davis — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:42:09 +0000

For those of you who don’t get it when it comes to Trayvon Martin:

The killing of Trayvon Martin on a rainy Sunday night on February 26 of 2012 was tragic. The investigation by the Sanford Police Department made his death even more tragic. The chief of police over ruled his lead investigator who wanted George Zimmerman charged with manslaughter. To have had a youngster lose his life for nothing more than being a youngster, that is carrying out the act of going to the store to get a bag of candy and drink of tea, did not set well with the black community of Sanford and indeed people of justice around the world.

To have a police chief tell a nation that the killer should go free because it was the unarmed dead youngster’s fault sent a shocking message through the Sanford black community and around the world. That message was that you could be innocent of committing a crime, walking in your neighborhood and still end up dead, and the killer goes free, as long as the killer said you put his life in danger, even though the killer pursued you with a gun and shot you. It did not make any sense then and does not make any sense now.

The sentiments of those who protested for Mr. Zimmerman’s arrest and prosecution for the murder of Trayvon Martin appear to be as strong today as it was when they gathered in Sanford, Florida on March 22, 2012, in numbers exceeding by some estimates as many as 30,000.

It is beyond sad when any black people anywhere in this country, and that means high profile athletes, do not understand that we as black Americans are in danger of being completely annihilated when our justice system is used in this manner. You cannot allow racially hypocritical whites to take control of our law enforcement agencies and hand out this type of “justice,” without calling them out on it and doing in such a way that the whole world sees it. (http://www.Jobcreationnow.com)