Brooklyn Nets participant Kyrie Irving was suspended by the crew for selling anti-Semitism on Twitter.
Corey Sipkin for the NY POST
The Challenge: The response to Brooklyn Nets participant Kyrie Irving’s tweets selling anti-Semitism.
Hey Kyrie: Do you know that W.E.B. Dubois’ Niagara Convention, which gave rise to the Niagara Motion and in the end to the institution of the NAACP, had a nine-member board, 4 of them Jewish (“Silver’s NBA asleep on the wheel,” Nov. 4)?
Do you know that in Mississippi, Jewish blood was shed with African-American blood?
Donating cash just isn't a solution to something. However going to a seminar on sensitivity coaching can be price hundreds of thousands. Or take a summer time retreat to Israel; ask Amare Stoudemire to indicate you round.
Donating cash is an try to purchase forgiveness. I don’t imagine you search forgiveness. You search forgetfulness!
Ken Karcinell
Hewlett
After Irving made his despicable anti-Semitic feedback, the place have been Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? In spite of everything, one of the vital harmful locations to be in america is standing between these two and a TV digital camera.
Don’t these pathetic hypocrites bear in mind the three younger Jewish males who have been murdered in Mississippi combating for civil rights? Sadly, they don't have anything to say about anti-Semitism in America. Pathetic.
George Gastrinakis
Jersey Metropolis, NJ
As a Jew I discover it revolting how, each time a non-Jewish movie star is accused of anti-Semitism, certainly one of a number of Jewish businesses (together with the ADL) rapidly seems on the scene to counsel after which vouch for mentioned celeb’s exceptional emergence as a newly christened good friend of all issues Jewish.
It looks as if a round racket that's specious and albeit embarrassing. I recommend this most up-to-date debacle, i.e. the readiness to volunteer to counsel Kyrie Irving, rivals efforts to carry one other Jew hater, Mel Gibson, again to the straight and slender.
Mitchell Schwefel
Toms River, NJ
Former L.A. Clippers CEO Donald Sterling used racial slurs in opposition to Magic Johnson. Poof, no extra Sterling. LeBron James mentioned there’s no place within the recreation for hate like that. He’s completely right.
The NBA ought to hammer Kyrie Irving with an analogous punishment.
Marc Greenwod
Opelika, AL
The Challenge: The alleged threats to democracy the president outlined in his speech at Union Station.
I imagine that President Biden and his woke radicals are largely accountable for the extraordinarily harsh discuss and even a lot of the violence present in American politics right this moment (“Prez’s rail ‘ghost’ly website,” Nov. 3).
Regardless that he now says it’s time to tone down the rhetoric, the file exhibits he was and is an instigator.
His suggestion through the 2012 election that the Republicans have been going to place black Individuals “again in chains” ought to by no means have been mentioned. Now he's claiming, “The survival of our planet and democracy itself are on the poll.”
That’s why I imagine he stays an instigator.
Charles Winfield
Princeton, NJ
In his Union Station speech, Biden by no means talked about Homeland Safety’s conferences with Fb and Twitter.
He additionally failed to say the politicization of the investigation into Hunter’s laptop computer, with FBI investigators deep-sixing the information. And he omitted the Justice Division’s probe into mother and father objecting to highschool curricula at board conferences.
Maybe Biden is confused as to who and what symbolize actual threats to our democracy.
Right here’s hoping that the reality shall prevail and our nation may be saved.
Alice Daly
Mahopac
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