The owner of an Ohio bar is willing to risk losing money simply because he does not like LeBron James, and the Los Angeles Lakers star had a fantastic response to this nonsense.
The owner of Linne’s Pub in Cincinnati posted to Facebook on Wednesday that the bar will not air NBA games until LeBron is “expelled” from the league. As the Cincinnati Enquirer reported, owner Jay Linneman’s potentially years-long pledge was in response to James’ recent statements about police brutality, including his initial reaction to police killing 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant on Tuesday.
LeBron had the perfect sarcastic response to this bar owner’s pledge.
Aww Damn! I was headed there to watch our game tonight and have a drink! Welp. 🥴 https://t.co/RRfRksjckM
— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 24, 2021
James regularly speaks out against racism, police brutality, voter suppression and many other issues impacting particularly Black people and people of color.
After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd, the Laker tweeted: “ACCOUNTABILITY”.
ACCOUNTABILITY
— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 20, 2021
Wednesday, he shared his reaction to the news that police killed Bryant in a now-deleted tweet that read: “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY” and included a photo of an officer identified as the shooter. After deleting that tweet, James explained:
ANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail! 🙏🏾✊🏾🤎👑
— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 21, 2021
I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY
— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 21, 2021
Linneman also said, via the Cincinnati Enquirer:
“They just need to play the game and that’s it,” he said. “Their opinion doesn’t really matter. They’re using their position to push their opinions, and that’s just not right.”
That’s the long version of “shut up and dribble,” and it’s asinine, hypocritical logic.
LeBron has a massive platform, and he’s used it countless times to fight racism and inequality on local and national levels. That should be applauded, rather than criticized using the racist narrative that athletes should stick to sports, keep their opinions to themselves and just entertain everyone else.
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