When tragedy strikes we find out who people really are. When it’s all good it’s good, but when it bad, the demons come out and show, like my momma used to say, their bare bottoms.
When the news hit that Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven other had died in a helicopter crash. The love for him poured out from every inch of the planet. Those that genuinely loved him as a player, person and role model were visibly distraught. He was an NBA legend and a basketball hero to so many.
However, he was most importantly, someone’s son, brother, husband and father that was being loved by the world on Sunday.
Unfortunately, the haters and demons couldn’t stand by and watch people love this man. There were idiots on social media, for lack of a better word, celebrating his death because of the sexual assault accusations from 2003. However, in September of 2004 the case was dropped because the accuser decided not to testify.
A reporter from the Washington Post by the name of Felicia Sonmez actually went so far as to tweet out a 2016 Daily Beast article with the headline that read “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story and the Half-Confession.”
For the last 16 years he’d moved on with his life repairing his marriage and his image by rebranding himself. He was raising four beautiful daughters being a great father and role model and all the haters could do was bring up his past mistakes. That’s foul.
Why would it be necessary to bring up his mistakes at the time of his death? I’ll tell you why. It’s because those that brought it up were simply trying to make themselves feel better about their own failures, mistakes and insecurities. Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with Kobe Bryant.
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100 whichever comes 1st! If the sexual assault accusations haven’t been the headline every time his name was brought up for the past 16 years. Why was it necessary to bring up on the day of that man’s death?
What some of these selfish and ignorant people fail to realize is that we’re all living on God’s grace and mercy. We’re all living on borrowed time. There’s nothing that you or I have done that has allowed us to be here today. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. So don’t get too comfortable trying to tear folks down to make yourself feel better about who or what you are.
It’s all of God’s grace that allows us to be here. So while you’re celebrating and man’s death and calling out his mistakes. Understand that the good Lord is in control of all of this and not you. In Big Momma’s voice, “God don’t like ugly.” Stop me when I start lyin’!
