Black Lives Matter. Napier's answer was "All Lives Matter." A mistake that cost Napear his job. He claimed he grew up believing ALL lives "matter." Emphasis on the ALL Who'd argue? But that is not the point. It is common knowledge by anyone who reads a newspaper or pays attention to the news that this slogan is used by conservative racists to marginalize the notion of Black Lives Mattering. Given that Napear is a long time news man, especially one who has been around the NBA, a league with such a high percentage of black players, how is it possible he was not aware of this? Can Grant Napear be that obtuse? Doesn't pas the sniff test.
In the same morning sports page is a reaction to police brutality toward blacks by ex King Thebo Sefolosha, who found himself on the receiving end of police brutality himself, "It's not just a few bad apples." It (racism) is deeper than that... part of a culture. There is no longer any way to avoid this horrible truth.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
“Baffling
distant galaxy proves dark matter.”
Sacramento Bee, March 30 2018
According to science, dark-matter slows galaxies down.
If dark matter didn’t exist, the cluster of stars
in a newly discovered distant galaxy, would have
spun apart. This, the astronomer claims, proves
dark matter matters. On the next page of the newspaper,
there is the account of the shooting death of Stephon Clark
and the poignant photograph of Reverend Al Sharpton
embracing and being embraced by Stephon’s brother.
What could it possibly matter that we understand
the universe better, when we don’t understand the life
of a young black man standing in his granny’s backyard
on a dark night looking at his cell phone, texting.
Or, perhaps, he was watching the Golden State Warriors
playing basketball without their four stars, which slows
down the rest of the team, making them vulnerable.
I’m only guessing that’s what Stephon was doing.
He could have been writing a poem, checking tomorrow’s
weather, looking at photographs of his children.
But I like the idea that he was, like me, watching
the Warriors, wondering when Curry and Durant
would be back, hoping Klay’s thumb would heal,
that Draymond would return soon - before the bullets.
Tom Meschery
