Nick Cannon defended Kyrie Irving after the basketball player was banned for 5 games and was dropped by Nike for promoting an Amazon documentary about the origins of Black Jews.
“I can wholeheartedly say I know Kyrie Irving is not anti-Semitic,” said Nick Cannon on the 2 Hate or Not 2 Hate Podcast.
“When given the chance to say, ‘Are you anti-semitic or not,’ he didn’t say, ‘No I’m not anti-semitic,'” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in response. “At the press conference, tell us about that movie. While he did, he said, ‘stop dehumanizing me.’ And the movie is saying White Jews invented the holocaust and 6 million Jews didn’t get killed. OK, I know that isn’t right because there’s a gigantic historical record. Jewish people know, when you dehumanize us this way, we know what’s around the corner.”
“So in that same statement as, ‘Those are the tropes that dehumanize Jewish people,’ the same buck-breaking…” Cannon said, before explaining the term. “The slave masters would bring the buck, the one that gets out of line, so all the other slaves would see, lash after lash, show them the power to set an example,. This is what you must do to fall in line. So, when we see the six things that Kyrie must do to get his job back, that’s dehumanizing.”
Y’all agree?
