Culture Kyrie Irving suspended by Brooklyn Nets over ‘failure to disavow antisemitism’ after Twitter controversy - Race war!

The Brooklyn Nets announced Thursday the suspension of Kyrie Irving, days after he tweeted a link to a documentary that has been criticized as antisemitic and then defended his decision to do so.

In a statement on Twitter, the team said they made repeated attempts to help Irving “understand the harm and danger of his words and actions, which began with him publicizing a film containing deeply disturbing antisemitic hate.”

Irving was condemned last week by, among others, Nets owner Joe Tsai and the NBA for tweeting a link to the 2018 movie “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” which is based on Ronald Dalton’s book of the same name and has been blasted as being antisemitic by civil rights groups.

The Nets said they were “dismayed” on Thursday when Irving “refused to unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs, nor acknowledge specific hateful material in the film,” during a media session.

“This was not the first time he had the opportunity – but failed – to clarify,” the team said.

“Such failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing, is against the values of our organization, and constitutes conduct detrimental to the team. Accordingly, we are of the view that he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets. We have decided that Kyrie will serve a suspension without pay until he satisfies a series of objective remedial measures that address the harmful impact of his conduct and the suspension period served is no less than five games.”

While meeting with media earlier Thursday, Irving was asked if he was apologizing when he said he didn’t mean to cause any offense after tweeting a link to the movie.

“I didn’t mean to cause any harm,” Irving replied. “I’m not the one that made the documentary.”

“I take my full responsibility, again I’ll repeat it, for posting something on my Instagram or Twitter that may have had some unfortunate falsehoods in it,” he said.

“I take my responsibility for posting that,” Irving continued. “Some things that were questionable in there, untrue.

“Like I said the first time you all asked me while I was sitting on that stage. I don’t believe everything that everybody posts. It’s a documentary. So, I take my responsibility.”

Asked if he had any antisemitic beliefs, Irving responded: “I respect all walks of life. I embrace all walks of life. That’s where I sit.”

When pressed to answer yes or no to the question, he replied: “I cannot be antisemitic if I know where I come from.”

Responding to that answer on Twitter, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League – a “nonprofit organization devoted to fighting antisemitism and all types of hate that undermine justice and fair treatment for every individual” – said Irving had “a lot of work to do.”

“The answer to the question ‘Do you have any antisemitic beliefs’ is always ‘NO’ without equivocation. We took @KyrieIrving at his word when he said he took responsibility, but today he did not make good on that promise,” Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on Thursday. “Kyrie clearly has a lot of work to do.”

That media appearance came after Irving and the Nets announced on Wednesday that they will both donate $500,000 towards anti-hate organizations after the point guard tweeted the documentary.

In an earlier joint statement between Irving, Nets and the Anti-Defamation League, the 30-year-old said he took “responsibility” for the “negative impact” his post had towards the Jewish community.

“I oppose all forms of hatred and oppression and stand strong with communities that are marginalized and impacted every day,” Irving said.

“I am aware of the negative impact of my post towards the Jewish community and I take responsibility. I do not believe everything said in the documentary was true or reflects my morals and principles.

“I am a human being learning from all walks of life and I intend to do so with an open mind and a willingness to listen. So from my family and I, we meant no harm to any one group, race or religion of people, and wish to only be a beacon of truth and light.”

Earlier this week, NBA analyst and Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said he thought the league “dropped the ball” on Irving and that he believed the player should have been suspended.

On Tuesday, when asked why Irving had not been disciplined for his actions, Nets general manager Sean Marks told reporters: “I think we are having these discussions behind the scenes.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he was “disappointed” with Irving after the guard did not offer an apology nor denounce the “harmful content contained in the film he chose to publicize.” Silver will meet with Irving in the next week, the commissioner said in a statement Thursday.

“Kyrie Irving made a reckless decision to post a link to a film containing deeply offensive antisemitic material,” Silver said.

“While we appreciate the fact that he agreed to work with the Brooklyn Nets and the Anti-Defamation League to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination, I am disappointed that he has not offered an unqualified apology and more specifically denounced the vile and harmful content contained in the film he chose to publicize.”

Irving was not made available to the media on Monday or Tuesday following Nets games on those days.

The joint statement said the donations were made to “eradicate hate and intolerance in our communities.”

Greenblatt, with the Anti-Defamation League, had said: “At a time when antisemitism has reached historic levels, we know the best way to fight the oldest hatred is to both confront it head-on and also to change hearts and minds.”

Kanye West, who has been criticized following antisemitic remarks on social media and in interviews, showed his support for Irving, tweeting a picture of the guard on Thursday.

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[Matt Damon]

Blacks aren't leftists. They just vote for free shit.

Fair point. "Leftists vs their pet golems" would've been more accurate.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm gonna post this again.
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I like how this guy just yells at the camera with no regard.

So much for freedom of speech and Black voices mattering.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Has this guy ever heard about "Hide your power level?" Just say you're not an anti-Semite, and you could be back on the court by the end of this month.

I'm gonna post this again.
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Man, Boondocks reboot looks great.

 

[The Last Stand]

So far, I'm observing that Jews and trannies are high on the progressive pyramid. But, I believe that Black folks can get away with tranny violence in the ghetto.

I hate oppression Olympics.

 

[Chandelier]

Has this guy ever heard about "Hide your power level?" Just say you're not an anti-Semite, and you could be back on the court by the end of this month.



Man, Boondocks reboot looks great.

All he did was share a documentary he didn't make. Greenblatt has a habit of freaking the fuck out and only shuts up when provided receipts of his hypocrisy - like how Tucker Carlson handed him.

They keep saying it's anti Semitic, and that only reveals more about themselves than Kyrie. It could be bullshit, sure. Get a historian to watch it and then have people debate it. That's what they did with Time on the Cross.

It's like them saying us noting the architect of Hart Celler was Jewish is anti Semitic, when they brag about it on their magazines. Kyrie just should've had copies of the Jewish Daily Forward.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

And yet "normal" Jews never call out the problems with the others. They always side with them. Why is that?

We literally do call them out constantly, it's to the point where leftist American Jews hate the Orthodox more than the Nazis did.

 

[The Last Stand]

Let's keep track: Latinos cannot criticize Blacks; Blacks cannot criticize Jews; White people cannot criticize trannies.

 

[Pentex]

I think that Kyrie Irving, in this trying times of life, should heed the wisdom of a fellow black man who was in similar position to his in the past. Mr. Ice Cube:

 

[glue eater]

Kanye West isn’t the first black rapper to figure out who not only controls the rap music industry but also the “whole freaking country” — the uneasy relationship between Jews and blacks in the hip hop industry goes back to its beginnings when the Jews put blacks on notice that “Thou shalt not bite the kosher hand that feeds you“:

(June 21, 1989) A member of the popular rap music group Public Enemy has been fired after making anti-Semitic remarks in a newspaper interview.

The member, who goes by the name Professor Griff, was removed from the group Sunday “because of his remarks and beliefs,” said Russell Simmons, president of Def Jam Records, Public Enemy’s record company.

Griff told The Washington Times last month that he believed “the Jews were wicked,” and that he could prove it.

“They have a history of killing black men,” said Griff, who is black, in the Times interview. “The Jews can come against me. They can send the IRS after me. They can send their faggot little hit men. I mean, that don’t move me. Listen, they have a history of doing this.”

Griff “is a stone-cold racist,” said Leo Cohen, chief operating officer of Rush, a management company. “He’s dangerous with those opinions, but he doesn’t speak for Public Enemy.”

Cohen said that Griff was fired by the other group members, who “do not aspire to anti-Semitic feelings.”

Griff backed up his comments in the Times interview with references to classic anti-Semitic texts about a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, including Henry Ford’s “The International Jew.”

Griff said he obtained his knowledge of Jewish history from the Nation of Islam’s historical research department. Griff, like the other members of Public Enemy, belongs to the Nation of Islam, the movement founded by Louis Farrakhan, who has been criticized for his anti-Semitic remarks.

“The Jews have their hands right around (President H.W.) Bush’s throat,” Griff said in the May 22 interview. “He won’t make the wrong move. You understand what I’m saying? The Jews have a grip on America.”

Copies of the newspaper article quickly passed through the hands of Jewish leaders and were reprinted in other newspapers.

Mordechai Levy, head of the militant Jewish Defense Organization, said he had mailed copies of the Washington Times interview to over 75 record distribution companies, and that he had visited Def Jam’s offices.

Levy told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he was calling on the other band members to repudiate Farrakhan.

The controversy over the Griff interview came at a particularly inconvenient time for Public Enemy. Its single, “Fight the Power,” is prominently featured in filmmaker Spike Lee’s widely publicized movie about racism, “Do the Right Thing,” set to open June 30.

It was Griff’s explanation of why the group wore leather necklaces instead of gold ones in the Washington Times interview that critics have called particularly outrageous.

“Is it a coincidence that the Jews run the jewelry business, and it’s named jewelry?” Griff asked. “No coincidence. Is it a coincidence to you that probably the gold from this ring was brought up out of South Africa and that the Jews have a tight grip on our brothers in South Africa?”

Jews have a much more difficult time criticizing Blacks than Whites who stumble upon the Jewish Question — especially their role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The reason is that Jews have given Blacks the coveted status of “oppressed minorities” — which gives them carte blanche to say whatever they want about “the white Man” in charge. Unfortunately, there is a growing number of Blacks — thanks to the internet — who have figured out that their “oppressors” aren’t “White men” after all.

 

[The Last Stand]

Kanye West isn’t the first black rapper to figure out who not only controls the rap music industry but also the “whole freaking country” — the uneasy relationship between Jews and blacks in the hip hop industry goes back to its beginnings when the Jews put blacks on notice that “Thou shalt not bite the kosher hand that feeds you“:



Jews have a much more difficult time criticizing Blacks than Whites who stumble upon the Jewish Question — especially their role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The reason is that Jews have given Blacks the coveted status of “oppressed minorities” — which gives them carte blanche to say whatever they want about “the white Man” in charge. Unfortunately, there is a growing number of Blacks — thanks to the internet — who have figured out that their “oppressors” aren’t “White men” after all.

With that in mind, it's okay to rap about oppression, murder, materialism, sex and drugs but so much as comment on a Jewish figure, it's over.

Are you saying that the White man was allowed by the Jewish man to influence American society? There's a lot of holes in this theory.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

With that in mind, it's okay to rap about oppression, murder, materialism, sex and drugs but so much as comment on a Jewish figure, it's over.

Are you saying that the White man was allowed by the Jewish man to influence American society? There's a lot of holes in this theory.

My wanting to bang Hillary friend of sorts, you know the jews do shit on the downlow. They tend to worm into something slow enough and just boil the frog on the goys.

 

[The Last Stand]

My wanting to bang Hillary friend of sorts, you know the jews do shit on the downlow. They tend to worm into something slow enough and just boil the frog on the goys.

I know there's a 1% in charge that wants to dismantle modern civilization into blind consumerism and plain savagery.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Oh shit Jews you better not expect your lesser whites to take a bullet for you because that shit is not going to happen. Good luck.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

 

[Ita Mori]

Blacks voice disdain for whitey:

Blacks voice disdain for Asians/Beaners:

Blacks voice disdain for niggers:

Blacks voice disdain for the Jewish masters:

Deserved btw. Niggers get screwed by the Yid and yet they blame Whitey and name him their enemy.

 

[Chandelier]

Kanye West isn’t the first black rapper to figure out who not only controls the rap music industry but also the “whole freaking country” — the uneasy relationship between Jews and blacks in the hip hop industry goes back to its beginnings when the Jews put blacks on notice that “Thou shalt not bite the kosher hand that feeds you“:



Jews have a much more difficult time criticizing Blacks than Whites who stumble upon the Jewish Question — especially their role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The reason is that Jews have given Blacks the coveted status of “oppressed minorities” — which gives them carte blanche to say whatever they want about “the white Man” in charge. Unfortunately, there is a growing number of Blacks — thanks to the internet — who have figured out that their “oppressors” aren’t “White men” after all.

Levy has quite the rap sheet himself, including shooting at another JDL member and supported the bombing of an Arab man named Alex Odeh. The JDL, IIRC, supported Baruch Goldstein, the instigator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre. The JDO, along with the ZOA, are some of the nastiest Jewish organizations around. Unlike AIPAC, which prefers to be subtle in its political influence, these two are dead open about their extremism.

Louis Farrakhan's 'The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews' did lead to some better scholarship on Jewish influence on the slave trade, with 'Jews and the Slave Trade' by Eli Faber being published. The arrival to America wasn't explicitly Jewish dominated, but the trades to Curacao and Suriname were. Curacao is basically a Jewish island.

David Cole has also noticed this on Taki Mag: uppity Jews like using them to get what they want (i.e drive the whites out) but when they turn on them and ruin their $350,000 neighbourhoods, well, fuck 'em.

Nick Cannon was fine bashing whites, until he touched the Rothschilds. Ice Cube was fine until he mentioned them running the banks. All of them get visits by the ADL or the ZOA and are told to apologize.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

when a black person attacks a white person, no one bats an eye because, its part of the plan

but when a black person attacks a jewish person, THAN EVERYONE LOSES THIER MINDS!

 

[Ponzo]

I love it, what if we are beginning to see the black man fight it out with the jews for the number 1 spot on the victim ladder

 

[Aidan]

And yet "normal" Jews never call out the problems with the others. They always side with them. Why is that?

You better shape up, Jews are out for black blood right now.

 

[Back me up!]

Please, I am begging anyone, please, find the old MAD article/comic about the Blacks vs Jews in New York. I have to prove to myself it was not a fever dream.