In regard to the perception of Black athletes in America, it is always about race. As soon as you question his motives, as if his character is flawed, people will see him as a Black man first.
Tim Tebow has never done a damned thing on the level of LeBron professionally. Yet he gets a pass from bigots like Skip Bayless on the regular, and he is considered a winner by the media. He is someone who is always getting a second and third chance to be successful, even at a sport that he hadn't played successfully since High School. There isn't one Black athlete who has been as big of a failure as Tebow, that has gotten the chances that Tebow has. LeBron leaves Cleveland, and now he somehow is wrong at exercising his right as a human being? Maybe if he pulled a Sammy Sosa while lightening his skin, then telling everyone how Christian he is, perhaps things might be different.
But this is about hoops, right?
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