My advice to Laila Ali at this point is to just stop talking because it is obvious she feels a certain way and doesn’t want to alienate certain people, so stop trying to rationalize it.
A couple of weeks back she spoke about how it was hard for her to promote Black Lives Matters because of her sponsorships and wanting to be politically correct.
After getting some backlash about that, she doubled down on those statement on her Facebook page.
“I started getting calls that people were outraged on social media, they were calling me a coon, calling me a sellout, saying that I was a disgrace to my father,” she said.
I said ‘You know what on my Facebook page I don’t post pro-black content because I don’t want people to feel alienated.’ My Facebook page is mainly dedicated to my lifestyle blog where I post content about fitness. I don’t post content that everybody can’t relate to. The second thing I said was when you have sponsors, when you have to worry about being politically correct.
“The last thing that I think really upset people is when I said, ‘black lives matter, white lives matter, asian lives matter, all lives matter.’ That’s what my focus is.
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