Ep. 714 - Kyrie Irving NEVER needs to apologize again for sharing a link on Twitter. He has apologized more than enough.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

After being suspended for 8 games, Kyrie Irving has now apologized for sharing a link on Twitter on social media, in print, behind the scenes, face to face, in person, at press conferences, and more.

I don't know if I've ever seen a human being apologize more times, in more ways, than Kyrie Irving has had to apologize. Yet, every chance the almost exclusively white members of the sports media get, they continue to press him for more apologies, more acknowledgements, more contrition, more insight, and it's all WAY TOO MUCH.

Name an athlete or entertainer who has ever been forced to apologize so many times.

And now the hyper-policing of Black speech and Black tweets is expanding to other players. And here's the thing - it has crossed a clear line where this is no longer about fighting bigotry or hatred, to where now it's about making an example of Kyrie Irving.

Let me unpack and explain it.

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0:00.0	He sat there doing all this financial modeling and I love doing stuff like that by the way.
0:05.7	I actually love sitting there and working out.
0:08.0	Is everything going to be okay?
0:10.0	It is so rewarding when you get to that point where the business has finally turned around.
0:18.0	Sage empowers finance professionals like Kat to feel more rewarded,
0:22.0	with helpful business tools and advice from real experts.
0:26.0	Sage helping business flow.
0:30.0	Now that Kari Irving is back from an eight game suspension,
0:35.0	it's clear that the media, particularly the almost exclusively white members of the media,
0:41.0	are doing everything they can to try to get him caught up again,
0:46.0	to try to get him in some kind of trouble again.
0:49.0	In just a moment I want to play an interview from Kari Irving yesterday after the game.
0:56.0	And you're going to see over and over and over again,
1:00.0	members of the media did everything they could to try to get this man caught up.
1:05.0	It's a mess, it's ridiculous.
1:07.0	This is not about combating anti-Semitism.
1:10.0	This is about the over-policing of black speech.
1:13.0	Let me unpack and explain it.
1:15.0	I'm frustrated that it's gotten to this. I also see them doing it with Jalen Brown
1:20.0	or the Boston Celtics, where again we get almost exclusively white members of the sports media
1:26.0	doing everything they can to get these young black men caught up.
1:31.0	Let's talk about it. This is Sean King and you are listening to...
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