LeBron James said a lot in that "Uninterrupted" video, with Kevin Durant and Cari Champion, to make people angry, vengeful, bitter and emotional in every conceivable way — about the state of the country, about his own role in impacting it and, of course, about the job the president is doing.What he never said was who was allowed to talk about it, and who should shut up about it. The response, from a Fox News host, was to tell him to shut up about it.
Because that’s what athletes and other celebrities are told all the time. And even with that, only certain athletes and celebrities.
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They’re not the only people who get routinely get told that they’d better remember their place, that they’d better stay in their lane and that they’d better stick to whatever role they occupy while making their living. Never stray from it into conversations where they don’t "belong." In this host's words, "shut up and dribble."
It’s a tried-and-true, terribly unoriginal tactic by certain segments of the population to silence dissent, to restrict real debate, to homogenize thoughts, opinions and policies and to erase entire undesirable populations.
James belongs to one of those populations, as does Durant, and throughout the excerpts of that interview, they talk about starting their lives one way and taking it in an entirely different direction. Specifically, it took them to this weekend's NBA All-Star events, which puts him in the crosshairs of commentators who eagerly exploit people like them for their own purposes.
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