LeBron James addressed the unearthed high school photo of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones during a desegregation confrontation in 1957 and asked why the press wasn’t covering the photograph with the “same energy” as the Kyrie Irving controversy.
the photo of a 14-year-old Jones standing among a mob of white students that were blocking six Black students from entering the doors of North Little Rock High School in 1957, three years after segregation in schools ended with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.faced questions about and criticized Irving’s promotion of an antisemitic film
— wondered why reporters hadn’t asked for his take on the Jones situation, as well as why the Jones photograph hasn’t been covered in the press with the same tenacity as Irving’s tweet. “When I watch Kyrie talk and he says, ‘I know who I am, but I want to keep the same energy when we’re talking about my people and the things that we’ve been through,’ and that Jerry Jones photo is one of those moments that our people, Black people, have been through in America,” James said.
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