Mark Cuban Admits Black Racism, Trayvon Martin Hoodie Stereotype Mark Cuban Admits Black Racism, Trayvon Martin Hoodie Stereotype
Mark Cuban, in talking about the Donald Sterling issue, may have said too much. In an Inc. Magazine interview, the Dallas Mavericks Owner said that if he saw a black teen in a hoodie he was walking to the other side of the street.
It was a terrible and poor choice of words that Mark Cuban later came to regret, but the damage was done. You have to, if you are at all a good person, feel sorry for the parents of Trayvon Martin.
There was nothing wrong with their son, and everything wrong with an American Society that caused his murder to happen and at the hands of George Zimmerman.
Zimmerman should be locked behind bars, but he walks free. And all in large part to this mental illness called racism. The same one Cuban admits too.
What about Golden State Warriors Owner Joe Lacob? He seems to have his own racist demons to overcome and they certainly revealed themselves in how he worked with now-former head coach Mark Jackson.
But then the Golden State Warriors don’t have a lot of blacks in the front office at all. About three percent of the executive staff is African Americans.
Thus, the comment that Cuban made opens up the fresh question of the extent of NBA racism. How does it apply in hiring? Why does the NBA look like it has so few opportunities for blacks at any level, except on the court?
And when a black person is hired, if it because the person is black, or because they’re the best at what they do? Did Lacob’s treatment of Mark Jackson reflect an idea that Mark’s supposed to cow-tow to them because he’s black?
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