watch this video if you want to see the entire story behind the Lavar Ball interview today pic.twitter.com/O3UOx1gjuL
— #BandWagonPolice (@KiaBandwagon) May 17, 2017
Kristine Leahy had no problem disrespecting LaVar Ball and essentially accusing him of child abuse. She made a sports story personal. You can speak about LaVar Ball the businessman, his various wild comments, but when you speak about what is happening inside his home, you have crossed the line. You simply aren’t qualified to know and from all accounts Ball is raising three pretty down to earth remarkable sons.
Considering how many young black men grow up without a father, his parenting should be the last thing that is being discussed.
This isn’t the first time Leahy has had negative things to say about Ball. That is her job, her job is to give opinions, but it works both ways.
It doesn’t mean LaVar Ball was right about how he addressed her, but for her and major media outlets to say that he threatened her is very dangerous wordplay that I simply won’t stand for.
Here is my response to what happened today with LaVar Ball. pic.twitter.com/kPb83onpES
— Kristine Leahy (@KristineLeahy) May 17, 2017
What LaVar said was that people who are haters have something coming to them, essentially saying karma will bite them in the back. He immediately pointed that out when she accused him of threatening her.
LaVar Ball is a lot of things, but he isn’t going to physically threatened someone on National TV, he isn’t John Gotti.
No matter how uncomfortable it may make you, when we are dealing with a loud outspoken black man and a white woman, there are going to be racial undertones to it.
Leahy has badmouthed Ball for weeks, so while she is certainly within her right to stand up for herself when Ball lashed out at here, I’d ask she refrain from using the word threatened, because it feds into the big scary black man stereotype.
Multiple mainstream media outlets have run with the “THREATENED” headline and you know why.
LaVar Ball is a character not a threat, let’s not turn this into something it’s not.
Furthermore, look very closely at how FS1 is using what happened to promote their various shows. If I was seriously threatened by someone and feared them, I certainly wouldn’t ask them back on my show, but that is exactly what Leahy did.
Let’s keep the real here and not turn LaVar Ball into something he is not, which is a criminal.