Since I'm not a racist bigot like BMack, I will rationally talk about this LeBron race non-issue without just blaming black people for everything.
LeBron recently that the reaction to hating him for "The Decision" was racial motivated. Stating:
In the interview, CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien asked about "The Decision," the one-hour special on ESPN in which James announced that he would play for the Heat, and some of the negative headlines it generated.
"It's just about control and not doing it the way it's always been done or not looking the way that it always looks," Carter said.
O'Brien asked if race played a role.
"I think so at times," James said. "It's always, you know, a race factor."
Said Carter: "It definitely played a role in some of the stuff coming out of the media, things that were written for sure."
If LeBron wants to point fingers at anyone he should look at himself in the mirror. The way that he went about "The Decision" by making it a big self aggrandizing event turned many people off of LeBron and hurt his Public image more than race image. It was an awful idea and the fact that he and his agent thought it was appropriate was even more of a reason to realize this guy was an ego maniac. He basically wiped his ass with Cleveland and did it in the most disrespectful fashion as possible. It's easy to make every negative event surrounding black people a race issue, but if that's the case I want LeBron to explain this picture:
Many people have left their teams in search for selling themselves and making themselves a business which becoming a free agent gives you that right. Look at our very own Shaquille O'Neal who ditched Orlando for LA, the LA for Miami, and Miami for Phoenix and so on and so on. In any of those moves you never heard anyone bashing the big fella and that is because he never held "The Decision" and the same could be said with Deion Sanders, Karl Malone, Oscar Robinson, etc. And not once have we heard backlash as much as LeBron.
The truth is LeBron isn't Muhammed Ali or Jim Brown, he is an ego maniac that found a clever way to play the race card in his favor. And all your Michael Wilbons and J.A. Andande's who bashed LeBron 2 months ago for holding "The Decision" have now changed their tune and enabling racial bigotry.
LeBron's backlash has nothing to do with race, it all boils down to a bad "decision".
