Jesse Jackson Says Cavs’ Owner Is Treating Lebron James “Like A Runaway Slave”

Posted on July 12th, 2010 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Bolitics, For Discussion, KKK, Lebron James, News, Quote of The Day, Sports

Jesse Jackson and Lebron James

Rev. Jesse Jackson is callin’ out Cavs’ owner Dan Gilbert for acting like a slave master angered at losing his runaway slave! Pop the hood for Jackson’s explosive retort to Gilbert’s comments regarding Lebron James signing with the Miami Heat.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson blasted the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday for treating Miami-bound LeBron James like a “runaway slave.”

The civil rights leader slammed owner Dan Gilbert for calling James “disloyal” and “a coward” in an open letter to Cavaliers fans.

“He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers,” Jackson told The Associated Press. “His feelings of betrayal personify a slave-master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave.”

Moments after James, 25, who was born and raised in Ohio, announced in a hour-long ESPN special Thursday that he was going to South Florida, Gilbert ripped his former franchise player.

“You simply don’t deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal,” Gilbert told Cleveland’s long-suffering fans on the Cavaliers Web site.

Gilbert called James “narcissistic” and “heartless.” He even put a hex on the two-time NBA MVP, writing “the self-declared former ‘King’ will be taking the ‘curse’ with him down South.”

Jackson described Gilbert’s lambasting of James as “mean, arrogant and presumptuous” – and an insult to NBA players who choose to exercise their labor rights.

“LeBron is not a child, nor is he bound to play on Gilbert’s plantation and be demeaned,” Jackson said. “He has been a model citizen and has inspired the children of Akron, Cleveland, the state of Ohio and the United States.”

Jesse has a point. Dan Gilbert has been way out of pocket with his comments!

Do you think Jesse goes too far with the slavery analogies though? Thoughts?

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  • nettie

    1st sick of Lebron!!!Next

  • nettie

    1st sick of Lebron

  • LaDiva

    What the hell is the big deal … it’s just freaking basketball. NO-body is out there creating a cure for a disease and yet ppl act like these sports players are doing just that. Smh… Ahh who cares where Lebron wants to go and who cares who has a problem with it too. There is always be a new one taking his spot anyways, that’s the name of the game anyways…

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    Good message but the wrong messenger!! Ho sit down treatment!!!

  • http://www.bossip.com bo

    that is right that is why he is the most hated owner on http://www.SPORTSHATE.com

  • Human Racist

    JJ sit your irrelevant azz down!!! where are you when the murder rate for Chicago is already 210+? your own backyard no less!!! GTFOH!!!!

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    @LaDiva
    What’s poppington stranger??? I love my frenemies!!

  • super goon one

    hey jesse wou not say anything if gilbert had not acted like a damn fool.

  • xedos

    I’ve been saying the say thing since Friday

  • Christine5980

    CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING, THIS TOPIC IS BORING! JESSE JACKSON IS RIGHT, BUT LETS MOVE ON!

  • http://www.newyorkshockexchange.com Silk32

    INTERPRETATION: This is what Dan Gilbert meant to say in his open letter http://clicky.me/rSI

  • LYRICS

    TELL EM’ REV!!!!

  • Jay

    I agree with Jesse Jackson 100%!!!!!!!

  • auntdoggandauntfail

    Racism is not going anywhere. As long as Black people stay in their place, everything is cool, but when you think for yourself there is a problem. Gilbert has the mentality that lots of Whites have towards Black people, they think they own Black people.

  • Martinigal

    Jesse shut your effing mouth. Once it a black and white issue its always racist with you and Al. Go clean up the mess in your own back yard. Anything for attention.

  • Jenene

    Interesting parallel, Rev. Jackson.
    He is only going as far as the hyperbole of Gilbert’s statements allow.

  • Darren Madkins

    I despise Jesse Crooked Jackson.I say put him Rush Limbaugh,Tom Imus and Al Sharpton no good race bating losers on a island and let them kill eachother.

  • demarco garcia

    Lol at Jessie Jackson attempting to be relevent again. I haven’t heard any thing from him since he made his comment about the presidents nuts; Jessie’s rant is just as ridiculous as Dan Gilberts rant. I’m not a fan of the cavs, dan gilbert ,or lebron; (lakers baby)Even though dan went a little over board, I feel like he had every right to say what he felt. I mean lebron ripped the hearts out of ohioians on national tv. Dan is probably the man in cleveland right now for sure.

  • ANNOYED

    FOR ONCE….I AGREE WITH JESSE!

    THAT JEW NEED TO LOOK AT THE “REAL”
    BETRAYAL….AND THAT’S ALL OF
    HIS JEW BRETHREN.

  • PRB

    I WAS THINKING ABOUT GOING SHOPPING TODAY.mmmm.

  • Lina

    I just came from visiting relatives in Ohio, and boy those people are neurotic.They have taken it to another level.Now their dragging his mother/family into this, it’s very disrespectful.Instead of worrying about Lebron,they should be focusing on Real issues that affect them -such as the high unemployment rate.

  • LaDiva

    @ ReALiSt

    Ehh ok if that is what u are doing then that is good to hear. Good luck on that.

  • Miss U Much MJJ….Lovely1

    I don’t normally pay attention to Jessie but he is SPOT ON!
    Now Jessie turn your attention to something more important.

  • Mr. Cool

    Jesse and the Cavs Owner need a Hoe Sit Down. I would if the owner would be saying all that bull if Lebron was fighting dog? LOL

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  • Mr. Cool

    “I wonder”

  • http://www.keglawyers.com/blog Joe

    Do we actually care what Jackson is saying about basketball? Do we care what he says about anything anymore?

  • I’m Just Me…Keeping It Real Since: 1983

    Umm am I the only one that could care less about any of this?? I personally think the whole thing about where he was going was made into an unnecessary huge deal anyway, but if he is a free agent and didn’t break any contractual rules going to the Heat, what is the big deal?? I was hoping this all could be put to rest already. Guess not.

  • LaDiva

    @ ReALiSt

    Ok truce then.
    And I definitely work out my behind; it’s nothing more gross than a cottage cheese azz…

  • Stan

    I agree with Jesse. This so-called owner is on mission now to win the championship. “WHERE THE HELL WAS HE OR WHAT WAS HIS MIND-SET DURING THE SEVEN YEARS LEBRON WAS IN CLEVELAND”?!!! The reason why Dan Gilbert is really upset is because Lebron didn’t stay in Cleveland long enough to let Dan Gibert trade him, EVENTUALLY… Dan Gilbert wanted to decide LeBron’s fate, but instead LeBron decided his own fate.

  • Brotherman

    That a.n.a.l retard is a racist! Like Mel Gibson, he’s slick enough to keep it just below the surface in public. But off the record??? He’ll freely use the n word like its nothing.

    So yeah, he is a racist!

  • “MY BAD, I JUST POOTED”!

    EXACTLY!!!!! THIS IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!!!!

  • Baybaybay

    Oh Lawd its going to rain,hail ,storm and an thunder and lightning all at once because this is the first time I actually agree with Jessie Jackson who I always thought only claim to fame was standing next to Dr. King on that hotel balcony in Memphis when King was shot! Gilbert has the mindset many have that Lebron James should be happy he let him play for him so he should be loyal but this is business not personal and if Lebron got injured was not able to play how loyal will Gilbert be to him? Also Jessie Jackson’s comments came right after Farrakhan’s comments last week interesting.

  • SOUTHERN GIRL

    I AGREE 100% WHITE FOLKS ARE CRAZY !!HE DON’T OWE THE PEOPLE OF CLEVELAND ANYTHING.

  • LaDiva

    @ ReALiSt

    God, I feel like I’ve been e-violated lol

    @ Glok

    Hey Glok how’s it going.

  • SO WHAT

    *CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER VOICE FROM BARBERSHOP* F!CK JESSE JACKSON!!!!!! CO-SIGN WITH REALIST WRONG MESSENGER!!

  • Mr.C

    Yeah the Cavs owner needs to be checked!!! For Real…

  • Maureen

    Dan Gilbert just sounds like an idiot. Get over it, LeBron left. He wants a championship ring. He’s been with yall for seven years and wants to move on. Geez!!!

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    Is that BS still showing?

  • Glok….Lawda Mercy Big Botti Gyal!!!

    LADIVA MY BADD ,..CLOWN AZZ REALIST GOT ME DYING OVER HERE!!

  • Glok….Lawda Mercy Big Botti Gyal!!!

    TOO LATE!
    PUZZY WE SEEN YOU!

  • LaDiva

    @ Realist
    yup.

    @ Glok

    Oh now ya beefing again…?
    Smh..

  • tj

    I wondered why he was throwing up the 666′s too… Realist don’t look street either. He looks like a country high school student from Nebraska.

    LOL! Let me stop messing with him.

  • Matix B I pee rose water

    Why can’t I see?????? I want to see too! LMBAO

  • LaDiva

    @ ReALiSt

    Lol i’m not getting into this… Off to the next thread.

  • LaDiva

    @ Matix B

    Lol I’m trying to see, but I can’t see shyt… lol

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    How does this look like a 666 sign??? That’s a “piru” sign su.ckers!!

  • Ebony Starr

    So does Jeese think that LeBron is “free” in Miami?!!!!!!!

  • Matix B I pee rose water

    @La Diva: I would pay cold hard ca$h to see it for real.

  • tj

    @Realist

    I remember what happened yesterday. At lot of people got impostered on here well over a year ago but the properties of the people doing the impostering was different from the real people’s properties. The imposter had different properties… Your properties are the same. No one can get into a gravatar account and change someone’s profile pic. That’s impossible to do… Be proud of your pic though. You claim it’s you.

  • Butterscotch™

    @I’m Just Me…Keeping It Real Since: 1983

    “Umm am I the only one that could care less about any of this?? I personally think the whole thing about where he was going was made into an unnecessary huge deal anyway, but if he is a free agent and didn’t break any contractual rules going to the Heat, what is the big deal?? I was hoping this all could be put to rest already. Guess not.”

    __________________________

    I agree. Personally, I think too many people are airing their feelings, and feelings really have no place in business deals. LeBron made his decision. Next…

  • KENNEDY

    Yall are so stupid Jesse is right. This man is unprofessional and obviously racist. Had this been a white player we wouldn’t have heard a peep from him. He called Lebron all these unnecessary names and it was unwarranted. No one has ever done this before in the history of the NBA. Lebron is not you’re whipping boy. If anybody thinks this was ok. Plain and simply you’re a house ni66a…..

  • RazeKane

    @Realist

    It’s time to start owning our own sh*t!!
    _________________________________________________

    We as a people have been hearing this forever but, it applies now more than ever. This is why its so important to support michael jordan, bob johnson etc, and that also means MYSELF. I have a few businesses that I want to expand and grow, there is also a few regs here I understand that have their own business and run their own chit…Glok, platinum diva etc. It doesn’t matter what it is (as long as it isn’t drugs, or any thing that destroys people) , just show initiative. I don’t believe in all the conspiracy theories that are currently out their, but I do feel that their is something catastrophic that is amiss……so people need to get their chit right before its to late.

  • tj

    @Realist

    You have the same properties from yesterday and the same profile picture as yesterday. I went back into the Carmelo and Lala thread.

    Your pic is showing again btw.

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  • dm

    If a tree (Jesse Jackson) falls in a forest (issues a press release) and no one is around to hear it (and the white media ignores him and does not release or cover it), does it make a sound (would he go away)?”

  • tj

    @Glok

    He could have a piru sign up.

  • LaDiva

    @ Matix B I pee rose water

    “La Diva: I would pay cold hard ca$h to see it for real.”

    Ok I don’t know about all that…lol…

  • drenk

    has lebron responded to what the owner said? thats the only person id care to hear from.

  • tj

    @Realist

    Yeah that is a piru sign… Its not forming a 6. I looked again.

  • Shootingstar

    For the first time in a long time I can say that I agree with Jesse.

  • tj

    @Drenk

    He responded. He said he saw Gilbert’s true colors, and now he knows he made the right decision. He also said he and his family wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.. I’m paraphrasing a bit.

  • Matix B I pee rose water

    @ Realest: You aint even ugly in the slightest.

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    That’s why I had to post it myself before this sensitive clown, glok runs away with that BS… The pics was from 2006 – I was still dumb and stupid then.. Something happened after College, and I met some conscious brothers that introduced me to Afrocentrism – and I don’t regret learning about my history..

  • LaDiva

    @ MMatix B I pee rose water

    Haaa I can see the pic now…Geez i need to move on to the nxt thread now…lol

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    Yo glok, peep this – keep talking trash but I’ll still whoop ya azz in your crib..

  • http://perryone779@yahoo.com rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    Hey Happy Mpnday to @Realist, @GLOk, and my shotgun riding buddy @ Super goon one.. How yall doing? iM RIDING WITH JJ ON THIS ONE.. FU-K GILBERT LJ CAN GO WHERE THE EH** HE WANTS TO, HE DONT OWE oHIO A gD THING BYT WHAT HE GAVE THEM… GOOD LUCK LEBRON.. PUSH ON PONMPIN . DO YOU .. FU-K THEM! i didnt get a chance to go to the tsate of chicago, so im mad as he** and ready to rip a knothole on a a.s.s!

  • http://perryone779@yahoo.com rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    @IJM.. How you doing girl? I missed you on here, How you been lady?

  • http://perryone779@yahoo.com rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    typos… Monday and taste of Chi!!

  • drenk

    @tj

    THANKS his comments are the only ones that are actually important and relevant

  • tj

    @Drenk

    No problem.

    @Glok

    I didn’t know that. I’ll look up NWO and Masonic grand hailing… I saw your comment from the Jay-z thread. Thanks brah.

  • http://perryone779@yahoo.com rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    Hey there @ drenk.. you know i cant skip over you boo!!Im with JJ on this one @Drenk!!

  • Ms. Sippi

    Lol…

  • drenk

    @ROSE

    hey rose!!! hows your monday goin?

  • RazeKane

    @Glok

    WHAT CITY YOU IN!

    Right here in Brooklyn, I’m runnin my own show plus pull a 9-5, I understand you up in Harlem..

  • Princeton

    Black people are so sad.

    You attack anything that is good and lift up anything thats bad, then complain when things don’t work out for us.

    Thank God for the few black people that use the brains God gave them, the rest of you are a liability.

  • Glok….Lawda Mercy Big Botti Gyal!!!

    ROSE YOU SOME SOME BULLCHIT RIGH NOW!

    RAZE KANE!
    YES SIR IM UPTOWN HARLEMWORLD..BLK YOU FROM BK! …IF YOU ASK ANY GOD HIS MATHEMATICS DO HE BEAT AROUND THE BUSH THAT MAN WOULD SHOW AND PROVE RIGHT?…OR DOES HE DROPPED KNOWLEDGE AND TELL YOU TODAY’S MATHEMATIC EVEN IF ITS ONE WORD!

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    @Glok
    Today’s mathematics is “Knowledge Wisdom.”… F*ck you and your BS – what’s tomorrow’s mathematics su.cker???? I shouldn’t have answered you su.cker – you ain’t even a member of the 5%ers – you could be an agent for all I know whiteboy..

  • Matix B I pee rose water

    After all the hype, the Heat better win back to back to back Championships …real talk.

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    Knowledge wisdom build/destroy is the mathematics for the day… The Asiatic black man don’t mess with 85%ers like you because you’re a savage..F*ck you su.cker!

  • drenk

    After all the hype, the Heat better win back to back to back Championships …real talk.
    ——————-

    i would die laughin if the heat didnt make the play offs, of course i dont see that happening, but still would be hilarious if that happened

  • Matix B I pee rose water

    drenk: Only time will tell, frankly if they don’t make the play offs I bet some heads will roll. I’m pissed that the Rapter’s lost Bosh, we love him up here, but will turn on him just like we did to Vince Carter!

  • RazeKane

    Glok

    IF YOU ASK ANY GOD HIS MATHEMATICS DO HE BEAT AROUND THE BUSH THAT MAN WOULD SHOW AND PROVE RIGHT?

    Mathematics of the world today and tommorrow, is do for self and family first and the rest will follow. If a man has true confidence in self, no one can ever diminish…but the real proof is in the company he keeps and the respect of his peers and family.

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    @Glok
    Where on google can you find today mathematics?? You’re more delusional than I initially thought, whiteboy… F8ck you IDAHO mutant inbred albino cracka of neanderthal descent.

  • Matix B I pee rose water

    DrenK: WTF is up with Vince Carther lately anyway?

  • Glok….Lawda Mercy Big Botti Gyal!!!

    DESTROY!

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    Lol!! Ok, that’s not my pic informant, are you happy now??

  • http://perryone779@yahoo.com rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    gloK, I SAID HELLO AND I AINT ON NO BS .. THE DUDE DID HAVE A SHIRT ON WITH THAT ON THE BACK.. i AINT LYING MAN!! YOU KNOW IRTS SOME FOOLS OUT HERE!

  • http://aol ebonieladi

    @dm

    Well said. And not only are the young brothers who advise him, his childhood friends, but their consultant is Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men on the planet.

    @Rose

    What’s up? How have you been?

  • Marilyn Lee

    I’m not a JJ fan, but I think he was right on this one!

  • Just Sayin

    Let’s look at a few words, “OWNER”, FREE, AGENT, FREE AGENT:

    Merriam-Webster defines “OWNER” as:
    1 a : to have or hold as property : possess b : to have power or mastery over.

    Merriam-Webster defines, “FREE” as…
    1 a : having the legal and political rights of a citizen b : enjoying civil and political liberty c : enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination d : enjoying personal freedom : not subject to the control or domination of another

    Merriam-Webster defines, “AGENT” as…
    A means or instrument by which a guiding intelligence achieves a result.

    Now lets put them together…

    Merriam-Webster defines, “FREE AGENT” as
    A professional athlete (as a baseball player) who is free to negotiate a contract with any team.

    I rest my case!

    The court finds in favor of defendant Labron James in the case of a hatin azz owner.

    The ruling is to change the title of this post to: HO SIT DOWN”
    Our next litigant are entering the courtroom now…
    :-)

  • dmo

    Lebron needs no one to stand up for him. He made it very clear in his press conference last week when he said Dan’s comments about his “grown man” decision of what to do with “his” life will not make him nor his family lose sleep at night. Cleveland fans need to stop whining like lil bytches, he should have never been your kids role model because you should be your kids role model, he can make any decision he pleases because he is a grown man. People really need ot get a life, why are you on national television rioting, and burning jerseys like dumbazzes? IT’S NOT THAT SERIOUS!!! Jesse don’t nobody need your input he can handle it himself.

  • http://hd.com pedro olicrotchy

    Shut up u stupid koon. How is this a race issue?

  • Curious minds

    Who cares what fake a** Jesse gots to say! U see him ol permed out Al Sharpton can speak on high profile ppl like this to get publicity but like it was said what about the murder rates. Blacks killin blacks n police killin blacks! Al n Jesse ain’t sh#*! when our ppl need help they’re nowhere to be found unless it’s publicity or money involved. I just wanted to air that out!

  • CHUA

    Nope! Jessie is right on target! Lebron is a human being first, not a piece of property…only reason that ignant fool of an owner pulled that mess is because Lebron James is BLACK! I am certain it would have been different had it been a white player! SMH…

  • Virginia News

    @ Realist, I agree. Right mes.sage. Wrong Mes.senger.

  • She said it.

    Jessie is the last of a civil rights movement that is trying to stay relevant. These knee jerk analogies worked in the 60s but not today. Get over it. We don’t need so called religious leaders to represent or speak for ALL black people anymore. Go make a rap album.

  • http://Bossip.com Eddy

    Jesse is right on target. Lebron doesn’t owe anybody anything but himself!

  • rhona mattan

    Now i see the real reason why LJ,got the stepping out of cleveland. Good for him!

  • Yeah He Said It

    I agree with Mr. Jackson totally and am glad he spoke out. Many agree but don’t have the ball$ to air their opinion publically. As usual, Jesse could give a d-a-m-n about what anyone says about him and will always speak on truth. Right on Jesse!!

  • IN THE ZONE

    lmao! now this is a race issue? NOBODY CARES! he’s looking too deep into this shit. he needs to just shut up.

  • WTF?!

    I agree with the Rev. Jackson, Gilbert was out of pocket and so was the majority of the white Cavs fans who were burning Lebron’s jersey and calling him ungrateful and selfish. That behavior is white privilege at its disgusting finest.

  • http://perryone779@yahoo.com rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    @Eboni ladi.. hi there! what a breath od fresh air to see you in here!!

  • believe that

    JESSIE IS 110% CORRECT. These white people just don’t know how to act. He doesn’t own Lebron – Lebron worked for him on contract and now his contract is over, he has a right to leave. Who does he think he is? Lebron made him more money than he’d ever seen and now he’s mad because Lrbron is free and he won’t make as much money off him. Cleveland need to look to the lame politicians they elect to uphold tehir sorry economy – that’s why you go to the polls to vote…this whole thing made me mad. Good For Jessie! we have no black politicians who are not afraid of the white establishment – the only two who says what need to be heard are Jessie and Al, no matter how much we dislike it…

  • Glok….Lawda Mercy Big Botti Gyal!!!

    LOL@ GOTCHA IGHT NOW, MY MILITANT ROSE!

  • Shirley

    I’m a Derek Fisher fan but if he were to leave the Lakers, I would never display the dispicable behavior of setting his jersey on fire. No doubt, I would be disappointed but I would thank him and wish him and his family well. The good Reverend is correct. There seems to be a disturbing air of white entitlement with some of the fans and this disgusting owner.

    “an insult to NBA players who choose to exercise their labor rights”.

    That’s the bottom line.

  • ReALiSt aKa ReALeSt (BoSSiP iS aDdiCTiVe! I LoVe My FrEnEMiEs BLoGgErS!!!)

    @666
    Go give your momma & poppa HIV – you wasted soul… F*ck your momma and her saggy tiddys – I also heard her yeasty pu.ss.y ain’t got no walls… F*ck your crack head imbecile dad with a hunch back, bastard..

  • Sha

    lol maybe jesse trying to score some season tickets! :P

  • dallas

    Labron You look like a Gorilla- then you let Jesse no talking Jackass talk for you. This so called Reverend who cheats on his wife and who cannot articulate talks on your beghalf- You have now lost some fans- Jesse sit the HELL down

  • Xster

    He’s acting as a provocateur, but it’s necessary to counteract the owners’ insults.

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  • BLT4LUNCH

    This is really on Over Kill! Kobe somewhere in training…LOL while yall fightin over people getting upset over James moving to Miami…He better get his game on his mind and mind on his game!

    Jesse Jackson since when you stop fighting for the working class! LeBron don’t need him to speak for him…that’s a joke

  • antiprocrastination

    I co-sign w/ Jessie 100%!!!

  • Miss Moneypenny

    Jesse Jackson trying to be relevant by any means necessary.

  • Hussein lied

    I dead threads…

  • MRSBuTTaBaBe

    I am normally not a fan of Jesse James but on this note I totally agree with him! About the cavs owner he went to far calling my boy a coward and disloyal he gave them 7 years. Sometimes we have to do what we have to and that may be change. And change never hurt anyone people need to let him be he is human like anyone else and hey we can’t satisfy everyone!

  • Messy Jessie, STFU!!!

    Why don’t you focus on our kids killing each other, going to prison instead of college & dropping out of school. LeBron James has more than enough money to handle himself. Focus on the kids that are statistics. You are too busy wanting to be a celebrity instead of a Civil Rights Icon. I haven’t had much respect for you since you had a child outside of your marriage. And you call yourself a Reverend. People like you are why I don’t go to church.

  • nwilson

    I think that what the Reverend Jesse Jackson was saying is kind of true but I think he just took it a little too far. I mean speaking of any of us, If you had a job and was ready to move on because you wanted to do other things or was offered more money, YOU WOULD! I just do not see the big damn deal. You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please people all of the time. Simple! Hell, you have to please number 1 first and that’s YOU!

  • Reagan

    Poor Jessie!! always gotta pull the race card!! Don’t you know, old man, that your time is up, and you have nothing good or productive to say about anyone??? LeBron is a talented player, he really doesn’t need your 2 cents, if that’s what you want to call it.

  • dm

    It’s all about the owners business objectives and if you fit their monetary goals. Some may say it would’ve been nice if LeBron had met with the owner and explained his intentions, but at the end of the day the NBA is a business, and LeBron made a POWER business move. Like it or not that’s what it amounts to. I see players traded by these various teams, and the guys sometimes find out thru a third party they’ve been traded. They don’t care if the player has children in school or maybe the family has made friends and would rather stay in that particular city. The owners make a business decision and don’t care what you think. The arrogance that the Cleveland Cavalier owner displayed after learning of LeBrons decision is enough to make one light headed. The whole thing reminded me of a scene in Roots involving Chicken George and Massa Tom Moore, but instead of LeBron being forced to play where he didn’t want to. He moved on to greener pastures! More power to you LeBron do what’s in your best interest.

  • Lady Lex

    Well the owner was fined $100,000 by the NBA for spouting that vitriol and it serves him right. Should’ve been more though.

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  • The Know-Madd

    @ Soul Ese

    You are very correct!
    The shackles haven’t been removed just moved around for a more comfortable fit. They just find a way to control the masses without restricting physical movement. You have to really stay sharp these days. Keep your minds strong!!

  • tracy

    Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at—-** __Rich/ meet/ ing__D O T __C/O/M **—- nice and free place for younger women and older men, or older women and younger men, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.

  • kelleykel09

    i hate the times that we are living in where everything u have done in the past is so closely looked at, no one can live down anything, its doesnt matter who jesse jackson is or what he has done that YOU think is wrong, the fact of the matter is that he’s right. and those that think its somethin wrong with what he said, is just as dumb as the owner of the team and the rest of the people in cleavland that feels labron owes them somethin. somethin is seriously wrong with you when u speak as if u own someone and its as plan as that.i swear i see why most of u spend all day online because ur opinions are too foolish and uneducated to be relevant in modern society. whites and espcecially blacks

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