Houston Rockets point guard/shooting guard James Harden found himself on the receiving end of Twitter’s seemingly never-ending wrath this week.
Shortly after he shared a photo of himself wearing a mask associated with Blue Lives Matter — a Black Lives Matter countermovement in the U.S. advocating for those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers to be sentenced under hate crime statutes — he started catching flak for it immediately.
But as Young Thug and Meek Mill see it, Harden made a simple mistake. Both rappers defended the basketball star and assumed he didn’t know what the mask symbolized.
“Just so u know James harden is my brada,” Thug tweeted. “btw he don’t have internet so he obviously don’t know what’s right or wrong if he posted something that’s against US…but I hate when rappers get in niggas biz like it’s can’t happen to em. buster let niggas clear they shit up activist.”
Meek echoed Thugger’s sentiments, writing, “Y’all know damn well Jh don’t know what that mask meant because I don’t! He donate millions in real life to our people! End of story.”
Harden has since denied he knew what the mask represented when he put it on, explaining to reporter Adam Wexler, “I wasn’t trying to make any political statement I honestly wore it because it covered my whole beard…It covered my whole beard, I thought it looked cool, that was it.”
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Gotta love when celebrities tell you what’s right and wrong. So quick to speak for each other to save face when it’s something that isn’t “politically correct.” Lol. This is too funny for it be real. Cause we’re all going to listen to Young Thug and Meek Mill. Pretty soon they will be deleting Tweets like Chrissy Teigen.
White guy does this, he is canceled and labeled a bigot. No benefit of the doubt for the white man. A black person gets excused by claiming ignorance. Wanting everyone to be treated as equal without actually treating everybody equally. The hypocrisy is nuts. The world has gone crazy. I’m talking about the artists here because twitter went nuts on Harden. Everybody is too sensitive, but if you’re gonna tear people down, you gotta tear everyone down for the same “offence”
Well if he didn’t know, now he do. Two gay looking guys shouldn’t try to be hard. He can get it just like anyone else. Clear that shit up.
Keep wearing it James harden. Don’t bow down to the mob like a lot of people. Genuine mistake or not. They need to get rid of Twitter. Maybe then these clowns can get off the internet and get a real life.
“Y’all know damn well Jh don’t know what that mask meant because I don’t! He donate millions in real life to our people! End of story.”
This guy makes millions off being a lyricist. Wow..