It ain’t about race, it ain’t about none of that. . That’s not to say that we should ignore race or make the false declaration that we are living in a post-racial society. The latest and best from The Undefeated — straight to your inbox "We don't want to lose two games. Welcome to For The Win's European Union Experience. After Kenyon Martin rips his dreads, Jeremy Lin kills him with kindness Jeremy Lin’s hair is now A Thing We Have to Talk About, apparently. Share. Share.

There is no way possible that he would have made it on one of our teams with that bulls–t goin’ on in his head. “But that man grown. had your poster up on my wall growin up.”Lin continued along that path Thursday night after scoring 16 points in the Nets’ preseason win over the Heat:“At the end of the day … we need to spend a little more time thinking about what it’d be like to be somebody else,” Lin said, per the New York Post. And just because I am — and know little about the culture and have never visited the island, by the way — doesn’t mean that I have some right to call her out for her adoption of “my” culture as a part of her own.Later that evening, I told her and her husband that I have spent the last 20 years in the service of black culture as an executive for black arts and cultural institutions and as a small-business owner.
He was VP and Producer for Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York and CEO of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh. Over the course of the last few years and all these hairstyles, I’ve learned that there’s a difference between ‘not caring what other people think’ and actually trying to walk around for a while in another person’s shoes.
People were attacking me, calling me racist or n—–. Not everyone likes the style, including former NBA player Kenyon Martin, who expressed his thoughts in a couple of Instagram videos.Lin responded via a comment under one of Martin’s Instagram posts. I can say whatever I wanna say about whatever I wanna say about. But I’m glad I had them — because I know as an Asian-American how rare it is for people to ask me about my heritage beyond a surface level.”And that, apparently, is all former NBA player Kenyon Martin sees: the surface.In an Instagram video posted Thursday, Martin accused Lin of wanting to “be black” and said in a caption that he was “disappointed in his teammates and the Nets as an organization for allowing this foolishness.”“Do I need to remind this damn boy that his last name Lin?” Martin said in the video. However, where the issue of race can often be divisive, culture doesn’t have to be.Martin made the mistake of conflating race and culture, which are not one and the same. Come on man, somebody need to tell him, like: ‘All right bro, we get it. However, we may have a chance with culture.Whereas culture may come from one group of people of a common ethnic or racial group, it doesn’t have to be exclusive to that group. Take y’all comments to the bank and see what they give y’all for ’em,” Martin said. It was a joke. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. “I’m really grateful to my teammates and friends for being willing to help me talk through such a difficult subject, one that I’m still learning about and working my way through.

Jeremy is an athlete and I would hope he understood that this was in fun and not to offend and as long as he’s not offended that’s all that matters. “But I hope that this is a start, not an end, to more dialogue about our differences.

“But that man grown. You wanna be black.’ Like, we get it. Jeremy Lin sees his dreadlocks as cultural appreciation not appropriation Kenyon Martin didn’t approve of Jeremy Lin’s new hairstyle. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. There was a massive accident in the final 10 laps at Daytona on Saturday. The Brooklyn Nets’ Jeremy Lin revealed his latest hairstyle this week. That didn’t stop Lin from getting his message across. . But the last name is Lin.”Lin responded to Martin in a comment posted to the video, taking the highest of roads while reminding Martin that he has Chinese characters tattooed on his arm.“Hey man, it’s all good. That man can rock whatever hairstyle he wanna rock. It got taken too far. Brooklyn Nets guard Jeremy Lin drives to the basket in a game against the Orlando Magic on April 1, 2017. At the end of the day, I appreciate that I have dreads and you have Chinese tattoos [because] I think its a sign of respect. That’s not what I stand for at all, and that’s not helping us move in the direction we want to move in. I eventually had to come to grips with the truth that I have just as much if not more in common culturally with the average white guy shopping at the local Walmart than I do with some of the people who look like me when I travel abroad.Jeremy Lin attempted to find common ground with K-Mart by pointing out the former NBA All-Star’s collection of Chinese tattoos. We need more empathy, more compassion and less judgment. Second of all, I’m grown. It developed and emanated from the spaces and places where black folks found themselves.


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