It is time that we start pointing out individuals and businesses that support slavery and suppression of humans just to sustain profits. I am of course talking about the NBA and their members.When the Communist Party objected to a tweet by the Houston Rockets' GM supporting democracy in Hong Kong and ticket holders started wearing "Free the Uighurs" shirts to games how did the NBA and its members react?
James Harden: "We apologize. You know, we love China”.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr: “The world is a complex place and there’s more gray than black-and-white”.
Lebron James: “[So just be careful what we tweet and what we say and what we do. Even though yes, we do have freedom of speech, it can be a lot of negative that comes with it](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-james-china-free-speech-20191015-ual6zi2q2fhfna6wgi2d34qdoq-story.html)",
Those ticket holders were forced to either remove their shirts or leave the arena. I guess James thinks free speech should be limited when it comes to addressing human abuses that CURRENTLY exist.
Hmmm could all this be because China is 10 percent of the league’s [revenue](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/us/lebron-james-nba-china-intl-hnk-scli/index.html) — and that could climb to 20 percent by 2030?
For James to decide the Uighur people are second class citizens of the world where their forced labor and internment is OK (sounds a lot like slavery doesn't it?) has even more of a stench.
James has a [$32 million](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2019/10/17/lebron-james-nike-china-revenue/3989915002/) a year deal with Nike. Nike’s shoe sales in China [doubled](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2019/10/17/lebron-james-nike-china-revenue/3989915002/) in the last five years, and the company [has](http://manufacturingmap.nikeinc.com/) 110 factories in China. Who are in some of those factories? According to the [Citizen Power Institute](https://www.citizenpowerforchina.org/) much of China’s apparel production is done by up to 1 million of China’s Uighur and other Muslim ethnic groups [detained](https://www.wsj.com/articles/did-a-muslim-slave-make-your-chinese-shirt-11571264293) in so-called re-education camps or vocational training centers, intended to cleanse them of their ethnic and religious identity and make them loyal to the Communist Party of China.
Let us not forget Nike is the "woke" company that has kept Colin Kaepernick on payroll to play the race card over and over for them.
I am fed up with these phony human rights advocates attacking America when they profit off of actual slavery and human rights abuses. If you are a NBA player taking a knee to protest the United States where is your sanctimonious a$$ when it comes to profiting off of real slaveholders?
It is time to call these people out for their support of slavery!
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