NBA moves All-Star Game from Charlotte
It's being reported basically everywhere, but the NBA is following through on its threat to move the All-Star game out of North Carolina over recent bigoted laws aimed at the LGBTQ community.
Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver had threatened to move All-Star Weekend out of Charlotte unless a discriminatory North Carolina law aimed at the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was changed – and time to do so has run out because of the logistics and planning the NBA needs to run its marquee midseason event, league sources said.
The league is reportedly looking towards New Orleans as a replacement host.
Edit, forgot the link. From Yahoo! Sports
Just to clarify. You don't care about Lebrons opinion and to burnish your position decided to quote MJ, another athlete, as proof? You're perfectly entitled to your opinion but thats a pretty circular route to take to get there man
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Jordan's quote was an answer to a reporter asking him why he didn't get involved in political issues. If I recall correctly, he had been asked to endorse the political opponent of a senator who had said something racist.
His quote is about preserving his marketability and acting in his own self-interest, not about how sports stars shouldn't get involved in politics. If a sports star - or anyone else who people listen to - wants to use their fame to spread a message, why shouldn't they? You don't have to listen if you don't want to.
I look forward to the day when corporations stop pretending to be about anything other than what is best for their bottom line. The idea that businesses represent the social mores of our society feels somewhat .... disingenuous.
Maybe its both to increase their number of fans AND its a moral stand. Why can't it be both?
Charlotte is the second largest financial center in the US. If Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc are faced with boycotts, laws will change. Politicians will always answer to money and if the money walks, they know their jobs will also. One weekend loss of revenue, especially the NBA ASG is not enough to move them.
I wonder if your grandfather said the same thing about those blacks who were also bullying the poor old white people in the south who just wanted to have their segregation.
For moving the All-Star game out of NC going to cost the state millions of dollars.
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this week.
Let's see how that works out for them in the long run.
Risky Business, perhaps?
I am socially conservative by Canadian standards, but I think transgendered people should piss where ever they want. I worked with a transgendered person (m2f) when I was an intern last summer. It would have been akward as fuck to meet her in the bathroom. It was a non-issue because the women at work treated her with respect and were comfortable with her. Nice lady, worked hard and didn't bother anyone. That said, the celebration of LGBT has exploded in Canada. Can't rent a freaking bike without it being draped with gay pride colours in Toronto. I just want to ride a bike not making a statement.
I work in downtown Toronto and I don’t think anyone thinks that by renting one of the communal bike share bikes with rainbow wheels on it that you’re trying to make a statement. I don’t think it says anything about you at all. I also don’t think it says much about the company who rents them other than they are looking for another way to make a buck, and if that’s by being inclusive so be it. Pride in Toronto is a money making event plain and simple, it is completely removed from any political agenda. The way you know this was the reaction to Black Lives Matter making a political statement and everyone getting pissed off. This is commerce plain and simple.
That makes sense, I can see the commerce aspect of it.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I really am shocked at the outspoken support of discrimination in the community here. If not for the no politics rule, I don't think I could read the board.
Brah, average person here is white, male, and middle aged... not sure what you expected.
Do you leave the seat up or down in a TG bathroom?
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