Allen Iverson: "All Lives Matter"

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You would think he would understand, especially with all the shyt he went through with the justice system. He almost flushed his hoop dreams down the toilet at 17 over an incident which people called corrupt

Where in his statement besides the ambiguous "all lives matter" slogan does he sound like he doesn't understand the pitfalls of the justice system? What was he trying to get across with his statement?
 

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reebok probably made him drop the statement or they would threaten to cut his bullshyt "lifetime" contract. i don't know enough about iverson to know what his real thoughts are. everything he has represented all his life and the fact that he was the number one target of white supremacy in the nba tells me he should be/would be about BLM (not the organization specifically) if he was informed on the issues though.


the jordan statement is scary though. now a bunch of uninformed/coerced players are going to come out of the woodwork to make a bullshyt statement. that they either don't believe or have enough knowledge about to comment on because they're advised to. spoiler alert: they're all going to be advised to make pro-police/non-controversial statements that don't say shyt and will be picked apart. fukk ESPN/ABC for perpetuating and pushing for this bullshyt movement. they are castrating athletes who really care and are intelligent to make any comment that isn't media/white friendly.
 

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This is why you can't have conversations with hashtags.

Now you gonna have people more worried about the semantics as if these celebrities keep up with the intricacies with online social justice jargon and completely ignore the intent.

Not everybody is going to understand the nuances of these slogans on the surface sounding divisive/exclusionary and how they came about on social media.
 

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The title could have also said. Iverson: "All black lives matter."

:mindblown:

Like I said, you can't have a conversation with hashtags.

Look at how people are completely ignoring the context and overall intent of what was said to focus on which slogan he decided to use and in which order to address how he feels about the state of the country.
 

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Lesson to the wise

Athletes with no awareness in social and political issues opinions do not matter and shouldn't be taken seriously.

The only time they are even interested in a issue is when it's a hot button topic being plastered all over the news, if that wasn't the case they would be somewhere doing negro stuff.

The real issue is continuing to let everyone who takes that angle get major attention for it. Like seriously iverson, barkley, sherman, these dudes have no power to change anything nor are they even viewed as some activist among our people, why the hell we care what they got to say? It's like going to auto mechanic for legal attorney advice. They only saying something because some white person who has already had a discussion with them behind closed doors and vetted there opinions beforehand shoved a mic in they hands to fit a natrative. Seriously who cares?
 

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Where in his statement besides the ambiguous "all lives matter" slogan does he sound like he doesn't understand the pitfalls of the justice system? What was he trying to get across with his statement?
When white people say "all lives matter" it's usually in response to a person saying, "black lives matter", which sounds to me like your belittling the black persons plight. When AI says "ALM", people like OP and websites are gonna just go for the headline "Iverson says all lives matter" to get hits. He could've reworded what he said a different way in my opinion
 
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