In addition to the divisive NFL players, the NBA’s players and coaches are also becoming insufferable.
Their animosity for President Trump grows, and several players and coaches have been vocal in undermining his administration.
And now we have proof that the NBA league is racist.
Many NBA players have expressed their disdain towards President Trump since he was elected.
Two-time MVP and reigning champion of the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry, said he wouldn’t visit the White House, per tradition.
Trump disinvited the whole team because of Curry’s comments.
Even LeBron James, who Curry just beat in those NBA Finals, came to Curry’s defense.
U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain’t going! So therefore ain’t no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 23, 2017
Also, James and superstar Kevin Durant threw some more vitriol towards the president in an interview recently.
Apparently these players hate each other on the floor, but they’ll band together against the President.
But there are also double standards when it comes to racism in the league, and they proved it when many teams recently played a separate “Negro national anthem”.
Breitbart reports:
Several NBA teams played what many call the “Negro national anthem” as part of their observance of Black History Month, a report says.
The idea of playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during basketball games was the brainchild of Maryland resident Eugene Williams who spent the last six months lobbying each of the NBA’s thirty teams to include the song as part of their celebration of Black History Month, the Associated Press reported.
On Wednesday, February 28, the Washington Wizards became the fourth team to play the song during a game. As the tune was played, the team aired a video showing player game highlights as well as video following players performing social activities and supporting community initiatives.
The Wizards were the very last team to contact him about playing the song, but since Williams is a Maryland resident, the team was the first he contacted six months ago.
The other teams that joined Williams’ initiative were the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Golden State Warriors.
The activist noted that finally getting the Wizards to join his campaign after a six-month campaign proves out the old adage, “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again.
“I had no idea it would amount to all of this,” Williams said happily.
But the 76-year-old activist also said that he has more work to do.
“My mission will be completed if it’s done in stadiums all over the United States of America,” Williams added. “That is my hope. That is my prayer. It will make our players feel more positive about themselves and about the game … it will uplift their spirits as it does mine.”
Author, civil rights activist, and educator, James Weldon Johnson wrote the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson wrote the music. The song was created for the Stanton School to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in the year 1900.
The song debuted with a chorus of 500 black children performing it for the school.
The tune quickly became an anthem for the Negro struggle for equality, and by the 1960s it was a mainstay for activists.
Williams noted that the song was a particular inspiration for him as he grew up.
“For me, it was the fight song. When I was a kid we had to learn it, we had to sing it, we performed it at athletic events, at church events,” Williams said.
“It has always stuck with me as something that gave me strength, gave me power, and I feel personally for those people who know it, that anthem does the same thing for them.”
Imagine if it was a white pride national anthem that was sung?
Now ask yourself how you think they would respond to that?