Former NFL Star & current FS1 host Marcellus Wiley criticized LeBron James for the tweet last week that targeted the police office in Columbus, Ohio who shot & killed a 16-year-old black girl in order to save another teen’s life.
He said,"dog, you can’t do this. You can’t be that irresponsible if you’re LeBron James because you have that much power and we all know when you get that type of power that responsibility comes with it."
Wiley wondered why James hasn’t been more vocal about black people who are killed by other black people.
He said:
“Two-hundred and fifty black people are killed by police every year, that’s 252 million people. But in the macro sense, there are 7,500 homicides to black people every year, as well. I’m not saying Lebron you got that put the focus on that fully, but let’s be responsible … there’s 7,500 in totality that never get the discussion because the people with the platform are not highlighting that.”
Wiley then hammed James for saying that we “live in two different Americas”.
He said:
“I don’t believe that America is divided, I just think we different, and right now, it’s getting highlighted more so than ever, so it’s getting exaggerated … he says, ‘Oh, man, the system.’ The same system that is so broken, it allows you to become a billionaire and never get arrested in it, but the system is broken?”
This isn’t the first time Wiley spoke out against a liberal sacred cow. Back in July of last year, he attacked the NBA and other sports leagues for the affiliation with BlackLivesMatter.
Wiley pointed out that about BLM:
"I don't know how many people really look into the mission statement of Black Lives Matter, but I did. And when you look into it, there's a couple of things that jump out to me. And I'm a black man who has been black and my life has mattered since 1974. And this organization was founded in 2013 and I'm proud of you but I've been fighting this fight for me and for others a lot longer.
Two things: My family structure is so vitally important to me. Not only the one I grew up in but the one I am trying to create right now. Being a father and a husband, that's my mission in life right now. How do I reconcile that with this, the mission statement that says, "We dismantle the patriarchal practice. We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement."…
When I also see their mission is to eradicate white supremacy. In 2020, white supremacy is the mission. That's a lot of digging through minutiae right there. I'm on a show that I'm hosting with another black guy who is hosting with me who replaced another black guy, and that's just one example of it. So, I understand, I respect your space. I respect what you're protesting for. But will you respect others who don't support that same protest?"