With the remainder of the Boston Celtics and, frankly, the NBA season still up in the air, Donald Trump’s “soy boy” son-in-law, Jared Kushner, takes to talking about the league’s current predicament.
Though starting out as just an idea between the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors to boycott their game-one Semifinals matchup, yesterday’s NBA festivities were postponed due to numerous teams’ refusal to play in the wake of yet another example of unnecessary excessive force by a police officer on an unarmed black American.
After this ensued, the NBA’s decision-makers and personnel congregated in a hotel ballroom in the Disney bubble to discuss how to move forward in response to such heinous acts. Ideas as extreme as flat out canceling the remainder of the postseason were brought to light, and players subsequently took this matter to a vote, where only the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers deemed it appropriate to burst the bubble.
Reports are that the playoffs will continue on yet, how they move forward in the fight for social reform still remains an ongoing conversation.
Being the current fight for racial justice has seemingly been combated at every turn by the Trump administration, it should come as no shock that someone close to the “Don” himself would feel the need to discuss a topic in which they know very little about — something quite common with this current regime.
While appearing on CNBC’s show “Squawk Box”, Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Trump, was asked about the decision by the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic to stay off the court prior to yesterday’s game-five.
His response was not surprising.
"“The NBA players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they’re able to take a night off from work without having to have the consequences to themselves financially.”-Jared Kushner"
Let me be frank: there is nothing “fortunate” about this current situation at hand.
Men, women, and children are being treated as “threats” thanks in large to the pigmentation of their skin, and these players believe more could, and should be done. They do not want to forfeit the remainder of the season, as made evident by the Boston Celtics and 27 other teams voting to continue the 2020 playoffs.
The fact that there was a real conversation on whether they should stop playing basketball, the game they love and have devoted their lives to, in order to shine a brighter light on such a dark reality such as racial injustice is actually nothing more than unfortunate.
They never wanted to forgo the remainder of the season but, sadly, feel as though they have the potential to bring about more social change than YOUR own father-in-law, arguably the most powerful man in the world, let alone the country these hapless acts are taking place.
So, to you Mr. Kushner, I say this: you are wrong to bring up the word “fortunate” in regard to this current predicament.
There is nothing fortunate about it.
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