Kobe Bryant Says He Refuses to Support Trayvon Martin Just Because He’s Black

 


Kobe Bryant has been in the middle of a firestorm for recent comments he made about Trayvon Martin and the Miami Heat’s early support of the Florida teen.
In the March 31 issue of New Yorkermagazine, the Los Angeles Lakers star asserts that wide-spread support for Martin was premature, and he refused to stand behind the slain teen simply because he’s African American.
Also, when asked about the Miami Heat’s show of solidarity with Martin in the now iconic “Hoodie” photo, the 35-year-old athlete said that such a move showed lack of “progress”:
“I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American,” he said. “That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, we’ve progressed as a society, then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.”


Jeremiah 14:
2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Luke 16:
15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

1 John 4:
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.