What embarrasses the NBA and has superstar Kyrie Irving suspended goes deeply beyond basketball or one man. Irving’s is just the latest face symptomatic of what has become of this country and made even its name sadly ironic: the United States of America. If only. We have not been this malignantly divided since the Civil War of the 1860s.
Blatant lies and misinformation. The hatred to spread that. The gullibility to believe what fits your own bigotry. And very public, prominent voices enabling all of the anger and prejudice once hidden, voices all but calling it to step into the light and rise up.
It is neo-Nazis marching with torches in Charlottesville. It is Alex Jones booming his cruelty against the parents of the Sandy Hook massacre. It is George Floyd, and 8 minutes and 46 seconds. It is the far-right Proud Boys group with white-nationalist leanings embedding into Miami Republican politics.. It is the son of a former president making a joke of the brutal hammer attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
