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So we were pretty shocked that he was able to get through that far to the protest. Nothing bad has really happened. So, I think what it does is it puts the onus back on the state to try and provide proof of why it is that we need to be over-policed the way that we are—why the police training and the way that they operate and their methods are so aggressive and just assume the violent intent of the people.
You can see that in the Blake situation. A lot of these cops are suffering from mental health issues. It just is. I think we just need to take back control of our sovereignty. Are we saying we should live in a society where there are no police? I think that the community should start to wrestle with the idea of what it means to police themselves, and what it means to have a bigger hand in the institution of policing. There should be a Community Watch on the police in every single jurisdiction.
The question becomes, at the point of conflict, who still owns the monopoly on the violence? We need to modify the monopoly on violence. To assume that the state as a formal institution or as a formal entity inherently carries any more competence than the civilian on the street is patently insane. So why should the monopoly on violence lean in their direction? It carries a special type of disgust for Black America because we have a lived experience where we know the dark side of the state.
Athletes like LeBron James have received a lot credit for their activism. There should be people outside of the bubble protesting. Why are you all back playing basketball in the middle of a pandemic? And on top of it, we have a radical situation with Black men, and these Black men are going to go back and play basketball? Just to square the bottom line? Are we going to say that, what, basketball brings people together?
Not enough for George Floyd not to be murdered. That would have been change. So somebody like LeBron, for example, if he wanted to speak to the importance of self-sacrifice, the thing for him to put on the back of his jersey would have been Free the Uighurs.
That would have been profound. That would have brought an immediate shape of self-sacrifice to him in this moment. What are we talking about? Muhammad Ali would not have sat idly by and fought while there were a million Muslims in concentration camps. I think what Giannis [Milwaukee Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmpo] and the Bucks did, it sent the message that if players actually do sit out, that the institution comes to halt. The entire NBA playoffs should have been done.
Then everybody went back to play days later. Are they going to sit out then? What would be enough for them to sit out the season? It was, as much anything, a relief. Basketball in , White committed to the University of Minnesota, but he never played a game. As a freshman he was suspended after being charged with theft and fifth-degree assault for allegedly shoplifting and shoving a security guard at the Mall of America. He ended up pleading guilty to a lesser charge.
He transferred to Iowa State, where, wrapped in the warm blanket of a college community, he was open about his mental health challenges. On campus, he became something of a cult hero. A particular manifestation of his anxiety was a fear of flying. When possible, the team permitted him to travel by car. One of the better college players in the country, White averaged Before draft night, White quickly got a sense that college and pro basketball held different attitudes about mental health.
For draft night, White agreed to be featured in a video documentary for the website Grantland. In one scene as he prepares to address an Iowa State practice gym filled with children who have come to meet him, he stops short of entering. White ended up going to the Houston Rockets, midway through the first round, ahead of players like Draymond Green, Jae Crowder and Mike Scott, who are still going strong in the league. White says that when he arrived in Houston, the team was initially accommodating and engaged him in discussions about how to handle his anxiety.
Then the tenor changed. White being White, he confronted this with a combination of logic, outspokenness and media savvy. He asked why player mental health issues were handled so differently from physical issues. After the draft but before the season, White demanded he be able to travel by bus. Later, he asked the Rockets to hire a physician to monitor his mental health daily and determine whether he could be cleared to play.
A five-page letter that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey wrote to White leaked to the public. The bottom line is that we remain willing to work with you on issues that arise from legitimate medical need, but you have to come to games, practice and everything else that you are able to do, just like any other player. The ban was dropped when White agreed at the end of January to report to the Vipers. In the dispute—and the discussion of mental health, made uncommonly public—neither side budged much.
White never played for the Rockets—though he averaged Or whether institutional resistance prevented him from fulfilling all that potential. But here, indisputably, is the sum total of his NBA tenure: three games, on a day contract, with the Sacramento Kings, and no points scored. As White drifted further and further from the NBA, something remarkable happened.
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