Do you like love or hate?

LeBron's rebuttal to Latin?

I like it.

I don't love it.

And the reason why I don't love it is that I thought LeBron should have one of them harder.

I love the fact that LeBron pointed out his part.

His hypocrisy, how this was the same guy who who did speak about his name and and, you know, and racist connotations that came along with it and how, uh, he was being, uh, prejudiced against in the past.

But yet when it came to LeBron James and others, he's speaking about how you know folks need to speak to sports.

I think that what he would say, he should have been more specific.

He was basically trying to say the black athletes should stick to sports.

That's how I took it.

And essentially, what are you meaning by that?

Because you have a lot of people in this world who look at black men and believe instead of showing them the deference and respect that they've earned and they deserve and giving them major major props for that as opposed to doing that.

They feel like these athletes should be appreciative and be and should and should never feel entitled because of what they've earned.

So you do have a lot of folks out in this world that look at black men who are particularly influential and incredibly powerful, and they feel they should stay in a certain place.

They should be more appreciative, as opposed to feeling deserving and things of that nature.

And I think this shows that you know, the kind of prejudice that we're accustomed to experiencing, as as black men.

It doesn't just exist in America.

I've had the fortune of, particularly with Stephen A's world, of interviewing several people on my show from different from different other parts of this world.

And they talk about how the black experience itself is the black experience.

It ain't just and and it ain't just in America, it's the world over.

And so to me, this is the latest example of that, and and I loved how LeBron came back and responded.

But I also thought that LeBron was very classy and far too nice compared to what he could have been by an individual that was basically not only telling him to just shut up and play basketball.

But he was also an individual that was telling him you shouldn't be the one doing it.

But evidently I could, because when I had an issue, I certainly brought it up and it didn't have anything to do with the feel the place.

So it's okay for me to speak on things, but you you should know your place.

That's how I took it.

I think that's how LeBron James took it, and LeBron handled it with the difference.

The class, the decorum that obviously nobody can argue with.

I'm just saying If it was me, I'd have been a hell of a lot harsher.

I love LeBron James response.

You like it, Steven, because you think he could have gone harder as Latin.

I love LeBron's response precisely because he didn't because I look a lot of times entitled to his opinion.

Even if we think it's wrong headed now, Stephen, if you read into and say what are you really saying?

I get it.

But actually LeBron's measured response just stating the facts, I think was the most effective possible response and look what he said.

It's on the bottom of screen there's no way I would ever just stick to sports the operative words because I understand this platform and how powerful my voices.

In other words, if you want to talk about a moral responsibility, if you are a member of an oppressed group historically, then LeBron feels it.

That's great.

That's that's great that he responded the way he did.

He is not making ad hominem attacks at Slaton, although he points out, Hey, look, you were saying kind of similar stuff where you're from, right?

Like you.

You were saying, Hey, you know my last name, whatever else lead to behavior toward me that that I didn't like and what's curious by the way LeBron could have gone on?

I've heard interviews where one interview in particular, whereas Latin was asked about Muhammad Ali and immediately he's like playing word association immediately, he says, the best, the greatest my idol and Zlatan is, you know, loud, and he and he celebrates himself the way Ali did.

But if Ali's your idol, it's not just because he bragged a lot, it's because Ali stood up for what he believed in and stood for his people and and oppression and oppressed groups everywhere, really, by the end of his career.

So it is curious that slot on has that point of view about Muhammad.

Ali had that point of view about himself in Europe, but then has this point of view about LeBron and LeBron's response to me is pitch perfect.

I don't think it could be any better.

No ad hominem attack points out Hypocrisy says, Hey, wait a minute.

Why is that OK for you, but not okay for me and, most importantly, reinforces the idea that he feels a responsibility to do it, not just the weather.

Well, I can do it or I should just stay in my lane.

No, LeBron saying I have a responsibility given my platform pitch perfect, I have to say, as usual by LeBron No, Max.

I have to disagree, and that's nonsense.

Ain't nothing.

Was pitch perfect about that response.

A matter of fact, I hated the response that LeBron James game, and here's why he should have addressed, like Zatanna or whatever.

His name is like the numbers on the house and should have made him smell his cologne in that response and by me saying that because it's not about politics.

It's not that LeBron James speaks out about politics.

He's speaking out about humanity.

All right, this is what we're talking about.

Humanity.

What's going on in the black community these days?

That's what LeBron James stand for growing up in Akron, Ohio.

Uh, you know, coming up really, without a father figure in his life, knowing why the purpose why he opened up, I promise school and and and wanted to provide such such such great people to help these kids in these in these black communities so they could get knowledge so they could get up either those communities and be something in life because, you know, we go through so much that it gets overlooked, okay?

And, well, what I'm not about to sit up here and stand for is no athlete or no other person, especially from another country.

Tell one of our powerful, iconic figures how to speak up and how to be a black man in America and be a leader in America.

I'm not about to tolerate it.

And Braun should address him like the numbers on the house, like I said before, because look, we deal with so much oppression.

For over 400 plus years.

You talk about you talk about things to nature.

Were for other figures, are were in.

Cars, are incarcerated for whatever reason, and getting football numbers where they're not.

They're in their kid in their Children's lives.

Nine days and now they need powerful, iconic figures like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Dwyane Wade, uh, Maya Moore, all these beautiful athletes that have been standing on the front line to make sure that these kids get the best opportunity that others are getting around the world.

So I don't want to hear that man.

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