Now that the debacle that
was Halloween 2022 is over and done with, we unfortunately have to talk about a
real life horror show, and that is what is going on in Brooklyn with player
Kyrie Irving and his Nets team.
Following up on the recent Kanye West debacle—which forced numerous companies and individuals to distance themselves from this warped personality, when he said some terrible things about the Jews and the entertainment industry—was Irving,, who tweeted his support for a documentary disparaging Jews, citing the New World Order, and basically stating that Jews are in the league with the devil himself.
These are all tropes that have been around for centuries, injurious nonsense that someone like Irving should be staying away from.
But again, this is Irving, the same guy who claims that the world is flat and who refused to get his coronavirus shots last season and left his team in total disarray.
And what is worse is that his team, and the NBA himself, has not disciplined him one iota—no suspension, no forfeiture of salary, no nothing.
In fact, his team is protecting him from the wrath of the media by not allowing him to speak to them after games.
The film that Irving evidently supports was found by the player—or he says this is how he found it—when he did an Internet search to find out about the African roots of his name “Kyrie.”
He watched this thing,, felt that it had valid points, and put up the link to the film on Twitter, and by dong so, gave it his endorsement.
Sorry, that just isn’t the right thing to do, but he has not apologized for his actions, and has only taken down the tweet and done nothing else related to it.
Anarchists feed off this type of thing, as they did as the Kanye West episode played out, actually agreeing with West and even taking over one college football stadium’s video screen to show their solidarity with West.
Now we have this further episode, and at this very moment, Irving has gotten away with his indiscretion.
He actions have not been acted upon by his team or the league—the latter of which is headed by a commissioner who just happens to be Jewish, and who leads a league which has shown outrage at everything from the George Floyd incident to the Beverly Grinner situation in Russia.
Not one player has come out to say anything against Irving—not a single one—nor has any coach, or team owner, 14 of the latter of whom are Jews themselves.
No prominent blacks have said a thing about this episode.
No Jesse Jackson, no Al Sharpton, no Oprah Winfrey, no Black Lives Matter, and no, no former President Obama and former First Lady Michele Obama and no Vice President Kamala Harris, whose husband just happens to be Jewish.
Following up on the recent Kanye West debacle—which forced numerous companies and individuals to distance themselves from this warped personality, when he said some terrible things about the Jews and the entertainment industry—was Irving,, who tweeted his support for a documentary disparaging Jews, citing the New World Order, and basically stating that Jews are in the league with the devil himself.
These are all tropes that have been around for centuries, injurious nonsense that someone like Irving should be staying away from.
But again, this is Irving, the same guy who claims that the world is flat and who refused to get his coronavirus shots last season and left his team in total disarray.
And what is worse is that his team, and the NBA himself, has not disciplined him one iota—no suspension, no forfeiture of salary, no nothing.
In fact, his team is protecting him from the wrath of the media by not allowing him to speak to them after games.
The film that Irving evidently supports was found by the player—or he says this is how he found it—when he did an Internet search to find out about the African roots of his name “Kyrie.”
He watched this thing,, felt that it had valid points, and put up the link to the film on Twitter, and by dong so, gave it his endorsement.
Sorry, that just isn’t the right thing to do, but he has not apologized for his actions, and has only taken down the tweet and done nothing else related to it.
Anarchists feed off this type of thing, as they did as the Kanye West episode played out, actually agreeing with West and even taking over one college football stadium’s video screen to show their solidarity with West.
Now we have this further episode, and at this very moment, Irving has gotten away with his indiscretion.
He actions have not been acted upon by his team or the league—the latter of which is headed by a commissioner who just happens to be Jewish, and who leads a league which has shown outrage at everything from the George Floyd incident to the Beverly Grinner situation in Russia.
Not one player has come out to say anything against Irving—not a single one—nor has any coach, or team owner, 14 of the latter of whom are Jews themselves.
No prominent blacks have said a thing about this episode.
No Jesse Jackson, no Al Sharpton, no Oprah Winfrey, no Black Lives Matter, and no, no former President Obama and former First Lady Michele Obama and no Vice President Kamala Harris, whose husband just happens to be Jewish.
The only prominent black who has said anything about Irving is former NBA superstar Kareem Abdul Jabbsr, wo I hated as a player--because he was so darn good--but who i highly respect as an activist, even though I don't agree with everything he says.
About Irving, the NBA Hall of Famer said that Irving "has tarnished the reputations of all athletes" with his recent actions, and he had plenty more to say on the matter, too.
Other than what Abdul Jabbar said, the silence is deafening, but let me give you a little insight into this.
Irving does not play in Oklahoma, in some other area with a low percentage of Jews, which wouldn’t make the episode any better, but for goodness sake, he plays right in the middle of one of the largest Jewish communities in the world—and he grew up in a town in New Jersey with a large percentage of Jewish residents.
But let me add some more information to this that you might not know.
Last season, the Nets decided to honor the diversity of its Brooklyn home by celebrating many different groups that highlight this diversity.
They highlighted about five groups which the government considers to be oppressed and under-represented, including blacks, Asians, indigenous Americans, LGBTQ, and women.
Notice, I did not include Jews in that mix, because the federal government itself does not consider Jews to be an oppressed group.
The groups I mentioned are all under the banner of “Special Emphasis Program” groups, and this title does not apply to Jews—even though anti-Semitic acts have gone up alarmingly since the pandemic hit, and have gone up higher particularly in areas of high Jewish populations, including new York City.
I actually contacted both a government entity and the Nets regarding the exclusion of Jews from this SEP designation.
The government entity told me that anyone can nominate a group for such a designation,, but why weren’t Jews considered in the first place as the other groups had been?
The Nets
never got back to me at all on my question about their exclusion of Jews from
their diversity days, even after several calls.
Yes, our own government practices sort of “under-the-cover” anti-Semitism, as the designation would allow Jewish groups to set up different programs to benefit Jews who needed help and resources for improvements to their quality of life.
And yes, the Nets perpetuate their own anti-Semitism by celebrating these other groups but omitting a group which has a huge presence in the borough and in New York City as a whole.
So the team’s—and the NBA’s—non-punishment of Irving doesn’t surprise me a bit, but for a league that is supposedly one step ahead of other leagues in taking political stances, they seem to be several steps behind in this instance, and you have to wonder why … although I am sure that anyone with a brain can figure it all out for themselves.
And to make matters that much worse, the Nets fired their coach yesterday—a situation that has been brewing for weeks now since the team's top player stated that he wanted him fired—and are reportedly replacing him with someone who has been suspended by the team he coached last year because he had what they have deemed an “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate female employee.
If he is named the Nets’ new coach,, the suspension goes right out the window, as he will be an employee of another team other than the one with which he committed the supposed indiscretion.
You cannot make this stuff up, but it is all true.
Irving continues to play, the NBA and the Nets sit on their hands and do nothing about his anti-Semitic posting, and everything is hunky dory …
But it isn’t.
Now that Irving has evidently found out about the African roots of his name, it is high time for him to find out about the organization that has made him a very wealthy individual.
Since he is so into research, how about using his computer and looking into the roots of the National Basketball Association—
Where he will find that since he is a player in the league, he has athletic roots with the Jews who started the league, the Jews who populated almost the entirety of the league’s team rosters during its earliest days, and the Jewish fans who supported this league when it was nothing but a blip on the radar during those early days.
Yes, Irving has Jewish roots, but he is too ignorant to see just how prominent they really are.
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