{"id":84777,"date":"2017-09-27T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84777"},"modified":"2017-09-27T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:16:30","slug":"this-guy-is-why-professional-sports-is-so-screwed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84777","title":{"rendered":"This guy is why professional sports is so screwed up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NBA Coach: \u2018White People Especially\u2019 Need To Be Made \u2018Uncomfortable\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Justin Caruso<br \/>\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich claimed on ESPN2\u2019s \u201cThe Paul Finebaum Show\u201d Monday that \u201cpeople have to be made to feel uncomfortable,\u201d specifically singling out white people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/5107476400001\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=5588388065001\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, because it\u2019s uncomfortable, and there has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change. Whether it\u2019s the LGBT movement, women\u2019s suffrage, race, it doesn\u2019t matter. People have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people because we\u2019re comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born white means,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you read some of the recent literature, you\u2019ll realize there really is no such thing as whiteness, but we kind of made that up. That\u2019s not my original thought, but it\u2019s true,\u201d Popovich said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cBecause you were born white, you have advantages that are systemically, culturally, psychologically there. And they have been built up and cemented for hundreds of years. But many people can\u2019t look at it. It\u2019s too difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be something that is on their plate on a daily basis. People want to hold their position, people want the status quo, people don\u2019t want to give that up. And until it\u2019s given up, it\u2019s not going to be fixed,\u201d the coach stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH ESPN\u2019S JEMELE HILL CALL TRUMP A WHITE SUPREMACIST:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/5107476400001\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=5577440896001\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>AND WATCH A CNN COMMENTATOR CALL TRUMP A WHITE SUPREMACIST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/5107476400001\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=5573768274001\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/author\/justin-caruso\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/author\/justin-caruso\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Coach: \u2018White People Especially\u2019 Need To Be Made \u2018Uncomfortable\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}