To be fair, LeBron James didn't say anything the other day about the "R" word during his CNN interview that wasn't true. When asked by Soledad O'Brien if race is a factor in the overwhelming bashing of his choice to trigger the formation of the Miami Heat's Big Three, he said, "I think so, at times. There's always a race factor."Yes, there always is, but not here. Not regarding LeBron overall, and it's not even a buzzer-shot call. Which says a lot, because race manifests itself in various forms throughout society.
We needn't go further than the White House. Barack Obama gets ripped by his detractors for everything from not having a birth certificate to their liking -- as in he could be an alien, not from Mexico, but from Mars -- to their suggesting that he is the first Muslim ever to masquerade as a Christian for reasons unknown.
Obama is black, by the way. So is James. As is the case for all African-Americans of fame or otherwise, race is its own little Muzak constantly playing in the background.
The point is, since there are a slew of legitimate racial issues everywhere that need to be addressed, it hurts the cause of the righteous to have something like this from LeBron: selfishness.
That and ignorance.
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