Before everybody jumps out of the birthday cake butt naked foamin’ at the mouth upset with the big homie Gregg Popovich for not kneeling during the national anthem. Take a chill pill, pull a Snoop Dogg and “back up off of it and sit yo cup down.”
On Friday night before the San Antonio Spurs played the Sacramento Kings both Coach Pop and his assistant Becky Hammon stood for the anthem instead of kneeling with everyone else.
When asked why he didn’t kneel Pop said that he preferred to keep his decision to stand “to myself” and that “everybody has to make a personal decision.”
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Are we really asking Pop why he didn’t kneel? EVERYONE has the right to free speech and to peaceably protest according to the First Amendment. We surely, aren’t going to blast Pop for choosing not to kneel. It would be like blasting a guy for kneeling. It’s his American right to do whatever he feels is right.
If nothing else, I applaud him for standing if that’s what he chose to do. We aren’t about to question his commitment to equality in America. Not at all. Pop and Steve Kerr have been the only two white coaches in the NBA that have consistently spoken out against racial inequality. I have personally interviewed Pop on several occasions and that’s the subject he would rather talk about over basketball.
So therefore, if Pop wanted to stand on his head with nothing but his socks and shoes on he could without legitimate backlash. He’s always been a proponent of racial equality. Heck, he grew up in Northwest Indiana in East Chicago and shot hoop in Gary where I grew up. He knows all of the same people I know. His ghetto pass doesn’t have an expiration date.
Naw playa, we aren’t about to question Pop’s commitment to the cause. He’s a leader and that’s why he chose to stand. There are literally some cats that really wanted to stand but didn’t have the gonads to do so.
Anyone blasting cats for not kneeling is a hypocrite. The flag presents the freedom to choose either way. That’s what America is supposed to be about right? So if folks want the right to kneel in protest of police brutality, racial and social injustice then folks that choose not to kneel have that same right. Stop me when I start lyin’!
