Former NBA star Jalen Rose says US
should have sent all-black team to
Olympics, calls inclusion of single white
player, Kevin Love, 'tokenism' and says
Bahamian Deandre Ayton would have
made a better pick
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Alex Raskin
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
6/25/2021 1:17:51 PM
Team USA's inclusion of white forward Kevin Love on the Olympic roster is an example of 'tokenism,' according to retired NBA star Jalen Rose, who says black Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton would make a better choice even though he's from the Bahamas.
'Kevin Love is on the team because of tokenism,' Rose, now an ESPN commentator, said on his podcast. 'Don't be scared to make an all-black team representing the United States of America. I'm disappointed by that. Anybody that watched the league this year knows Kevin Love did not have a stellar season."
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mustng66 6/25/2021 1:24:44 PM (No. 826389)
Filthy racist, fire him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
msjena 6/25/2021 1:26:06 PM (No. 826391)
Didn't Rush Limbaugh say something similar about a black player and get fired for it?
32 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DARling 6/25/2021 1:27:17 PM (No. 826392)
My white dollars won't be supporting the NBA in any fashion. The league can crash and burn for all I care. They can turn the arenas into homeless shelters and hasten the demise of liberal big cities.
52 people like this.
He’s probably correct.
If he was a consistent conservative, I might give him a break.
Ask him his opinion on reparations and Affirmative Action. If he opposes both, his opinion is valid.
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Such a virulent racist, this Jalen Rose. May this be his defining moment.
21 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 6/25/2021 1:34:53 PM (No. 826399)
This man is completely comfortable with his racism.
We see so much of this today.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 6/25/2021 1:39:43 PM (No. 826401)
Tokenism. Just iike blacks at Harvard?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zuker5 6/25/2021 1:40:32 PM (No. 826402)
After decades of Affirmative Action, and racial preferences, suddenly merit should matter? Interesting.
41 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/25/2021 1:41:51 PM (No. 826403)
Black rage, much?
17 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
SALady 6/25/2021 1:45:12 PM (No. 826410)
The biggest (and I might add strong majority -- like 99.9999%) of all blatant racists in this country right now are black!!!!!
They feel totally justified in their racism, and never suffer any consequences for their racism.
However, every athlete sent to the Olympics by the USA should be an amateur athlete -- as was the true intent and spirit of the Olympics until big money and big corporations took over!!! Until the Olympics goes back to that core belief, then I won't waste my time watching it or caring if the USA professional athletes take home a single medal against the professional athletes from the rest of the world!!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/25/2021 1:47:37 PM (No. 826416)
Apparently he’s fine with the Democrat party though. They are the organization that started it all. Everything.
If one wants to find root causes look to that organization. If he were calling for it to be dissolved i might believe him. He’s giving cover to the racists, setting up a distraction.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
jimincalif 6/25/2021 1:48:46 PM (No. 826419)
If we must have proportional representation in everything, then the team should be 13.4% black.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 6/25/2021 1:52:31 PM (No. 826421)
What about racial equity? Oh, I get it. That only applies to situations where blacks feel they are underrepresented. Typical leftists double standards.
22 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/25/2021 1:52:34 PM (No. 826422)
Hate to say it but he's right. Look at the rosters of basketball teams. There aren't any Jerry Wests or Pete Maravichs around. Basketball is overwhelmly black. Football and baseball are trending in that direction. It would be like putting a black player on a hockey team. Real is real.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
edgar 6/25/2021 1:53:59 PM (No. 826425)
Diversity quotas trump merit. Jaylen is just figuring it out. Doesn't that suck? Welcome to woke sports.
16 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
mjwall69 6/25/2021 1:56:36 PM (No. 826427)
Since basketball was invented by a white guy wouldn't black players be appropriating white culture? Where does the foolishness begin or end? This is all stupid.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/25/2021 2:15:49 PM (No. 826442)
I don't know enough about the skills of the players involved in the discussion to take one side or another. Depending on that missing knowledge, I could find myself in complete agreement with Jalen Rose. We should put the best team out there, race be damned. But let's apply that color blindness to the rest of society.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 6/25/2021 2:18:23 PM (No. 826447)
The NBA is becoming a single demographic sport, like Jai alai is in Miami.
12 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/25/2021 2:18:47 PM (No. 826449)
Suck it up.
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
kewmac 6/25/2021 2:24:56 PM (No. 826453)
I am beyond the NBA and the Olympics. In short, I have no interest in either.
19 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/25/2021 2:27:51 PM (No. 826457)
Typical illiterate. He's probably right but if you want to talk about tokenism I could give this moron about one million examples of what real tokenism is, and it ain't about the white guy. Got it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 6/25/2021 2:29:18 PM (No. 826458)
Since basketball was invented by a white male, the act of any black playing basketball is cultural appropriation.
18 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 6/25/2021 2:30:14 PM (No. 826459)
Watching tall persons of African ancestry shoot baskets is not somethng I do.
15 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/25/2021 2:43:32 PM (No. 826474)
I'm sure the racism SWAT team will be kicking down the doors of ESPN any minute now and Jalen Rose promptly removed from his position as commentator for hate speech. How many times have comments like his caused others to be promptly removed from their commentator jobs? In the name of racial EQUITY, Jalen Rose should be promptly fired for his overtly racist comment.
10 people like this.
I'd be willing to send them all, if they promise to never return.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/25/2021 2:46:51 PM (No. 826478)
I wonder if the rest of Olympic Basketball team thinks the same thing as Jalen Rose. DO they feel that Love is a token and will they treat him as such on the basketball court? Will they let their Blackness shine and show overt racism on the US team during the Olympics? Wonder if Love will suffer a mysterious injury before the Olympics and need to be replaced by....a Black player.
8 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2021 3:15:32 PM (No. 826505)
I think that the team should "look like America". So, no more than 13% blacks on the team. So, that's short of the 20% that one player is out of five....so no black folks on the team.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 6/25/2021 3:30:08 PM (No. 826518)
Rush claimed that McNabb was over rated as a quarterback because he was black and the MSM was giving him too much credit, lauding him when it really wasn't deserved. He was fired for that observation. Of course it turned out he was right.
This ranting by Jalen Rose is flat out racist and there have already been several US Olympic teams that had all black players.
Maybe we should demand "equity" in sports and included all races regardless of their stature or ability because no one should deny them their dreams?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/25/2021 3:42:55 PM (No. 826529)
I'll be Rose has already been fired. No TV personality can say racist stuff like that and last out the hour - - much less the day.
I guarantee - - - he's already gone.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Historybuff 6/25/2021 3:57:22 PM (No. 826538)
Who was it said "Segregation now Segregation forever."? Oh yeah, that was George Wallace.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
downnout 6/25/2021 4:05:54 PM (No. 826541)
Oh, so now merit matters, Jalen? What do you think people have been arguing about for years? Blacks hate the idea of merit unless they happen to be the ones that are more meritorious than others.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/25/2021 4:17:58 PM (No. 826554)
On the other hand they probably should send an all white team.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
TJ54 6/25/2021 4:25:51 PM (No. 826566)
I want a team that “looks like America” so fire 87 percent of the blacks
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
pilot222 6/25/2021 4:26:27 PM (No. 826568)
Such BS. This plays right into the hands of China. Please NBA forget racist USA and move all your bLaCC arses to China.
Hope you lose you traitors.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/25/2021 4:59:06 PM (No. 826603)
I forget the exact year that the Olympics allowed the pros to play but that was the year I quit watching.
5 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
red1066 6/25/2021 5:19:43 PM (No. 826616)
If I'm Kevin Love, Rose never touches the ball when I'm in there. Pass it to the other team, throw it out of bounds, take long shots, do anything to keep this clown from touching the ball.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/25/2021 5:37:21 PM (No. 826623)
I've been ticking off sports I will no longer watch during the Olympics' and I think I'm down to only one that I will watch. Golf.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
hisself 6/25/2021 7:32:32 PM (No. 826712)
Who? Never heard of Jail'n Rose. Did he ever do anything of value?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
bassman 6/25/2021 7:37:46 PM (No. 826718)
He's right, there aren't any white players in the NBA and that's why I don't watch it. Oh and btw, I'm a racist!!
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