I AM BLACK: J.R SMITH: Our Ancestors Made the Sacrifice Already
I Am Athlete
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🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We had to fight to get a meal, yeah, wrongfully accused, we had to fight to get a pill, so are we right to get a deal? He on the team, you gotta eat you know, spite your skills, fat, keep it riding for the fam, you got a light that we're in real straight up. |
| 0:31.0 | How many years did you play in the NBA? |
| 0:35.0 | Six days. |
| 0:36.0 | Down. |
| 0:37.0 | At that kind of debunk where I wanted to go. |
| 0:39.0 | That's a phenomenal career. Why J.R.A. ain't in the league anymore. |
| 0:44.0 | Once you get 10 plus years and you have that outlier mentality, they understand that the young guys coming in, they're gonna listen to you before they listen to assisted coaches. |
| 0:57.0 | So they got to get rid of those guys that are gonna challenge that culture. |
| 1:02.0 | They don't want that, right? |
| 1:04.0 | They wanted to be uniform. |
| 1:06.0 | So when I see guys like that, like you, I'm envious because he lived in his true skin, through and through. |
| 1:15.0 | Right, right, right, right. |
| 1:16.0 | He's living through. |
| 1:18.0 | But you know, I lived in my true skin because I was a team guy. |
| 1:23.0 | I played football growing up, I played baseball growing up, I played basketball, I played all these sports. |
| 1:27.0 | So I was nurtured into, you can't do it without them. |
| 1:31.0 | What you trying to accomplish with this move you're making right now is transitioning. |
| 1:35.0 | My biggest move right now is trying to change his many minds that look like that back into the Afro-centric mindset, opposed to the Euro-centric mindset. |
| 1:44.0 | We're so trained and it's so embedded to have that Euro-centric mindset that I'm worried about myself, worried about me, worried about minds, worried about minds. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm not gonna help nobody else who looked like me build up. |
| 1:55.0 | When everybody else do it but us, when you made over $100 million in your career, right? |
| 2:02.0 | There's 105 going to change. |
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