Yesterday Jemele Hill and Skip Bayless of ESPN’s First Take discussed the divide on LeBron James within the black and white communities after a recent CNBC poll resulted in James being the sixth most hated athlete behind Michael Vick, Tiger Woods, Terrell Owens, Chad Ochocinco & Kobe Bryant who are obviously all black. Bayless who is usually a hit or miss in his opinions caught it on the nose assessing the situation as black people being more disappointed in LeBron’s defection to Miami a confirmation of non verbal admission that he is not Superman and can’t due it on his own a la MJ while white peoples dislike for him came because of the way he unapologetically (that might not be a word) announced his departure from the Cavs on television. Barring Dan Gilbert’s racist rant, my thoughts on both races reasons for having issues are fine wherein I concur Lebron did take the easier road to winning a ring in joining forces with D Wade rather than doing on his own as the rest have and he did handled his free agency the worst way possible – two seemingly plausible reasons of a low approval rating. However my real issue lies in the poll. Lets leave Vick, Bryant & Woods out the equation considering one did time for n*gga dog sh*t, one settled out of court with a white woman who accused him of rape and the other f*cked a whole lotta white women while married to a white wife. Let’s focus on Ocho, Owens & Bron Bron who have never been in trouble with the law and bring in an obvious candidate in the hated athlete poll, Ben Roethlisberger – a two time Super Bowl winning NFL quarterback who has been accused of rape twice = success and failure, a recipe for hate. And let’s ask ourselves why them and not him. F*ck asking, lemme just tell you. Cause he’s not a friggin rich, successful, famous and physically gifted young black man with a stage for his voice – the ultimate recipe for being hated in America. Now tell them b*tchasses to take a poll on that. Holla - ICE
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