Lebron thinks he is GOD almighty

Feb 20, 2018 16:11:16 GMT Rissa said:

I don’t care for LeBron but I do love it when he speaks the truth about the black experience in society, because it pisses all of you racist whites off.

Lebron is a very good basketball player, definitely in the top 10 of all time. He's not a stupid guy either, especially when it comes to the understanding the game of basketball, but what Lebron lacks most of all is leadership skills. He lacks the ability to motivate his fellow players and make them become something more than they are. That said, Lebron shows fantastic skills on the court, but leading by that example alone does not create winning teams. Lebron only knows leading by example.

This lack of leadership skill applies even more so when Lebron speaks out on political issues. I'll agree Rissa, that he does understand the black experience in society, based upon the neighborhood he grew up in and being raised by a single mom. I have to believe however, that that experience changed once he started to have college and pro scouts start following him and he entered an entirely new kind of experience, the one of the successful, wealthy and pampered athlete.  I do think he understands his roots though. He's a generous guy to his own people and he definitely gives back to the community he came from. For that, he has earned my respect.

The problem with Lebron in the public forum is that he's just another blamer. He doesn't lead when he transfers the blame for the condition of many African Americans to external factors. Never once have I heard Lebron call for blacks to take a hard look at themselves and the situations THEY have created to find solutions to their problems. Lebron doesn't understand that type of leadership. His basketball skills were what lifted him out of poverty. He doesn't appear to have confidence in what it takes for blacks to make real strides toward their success, ones of which I know they are truly capable. Even when he gives money to send kids to college (again, it's fantastic that he does that), he does it as a response to an inequality that still exists, but it exists not because of external factors holding blacks down, but from their own values and attitudes toward education. If Lebron was a leader, he'd do all that he does monetarily, but he'd also be working to instill the real type of confidence the black community needs, which is the knowledge that they are something more than they think are, and you don't get there by blaming external factors, you get there by working on self improvement and even teamwork.

Oh, and Rissa. In my day to day experience in the various circles in which I associate, I don't know a single white person who is racist. Not a single one.