The double standard is real, not just in sports but in life.
Black people are just held to a higher standard than white people regardless if they are doing the exact same thing. LeBron pointed this out on THE SHOP.
“When you’re growing up in sports or hip-hop, whatever the case may be, all you hear is like, I want to be the best. Whoever’s the best, they do it their way, whatever the case may be. And then, when you do it your way, and you win, it still ain’t enough.
It still ain’t enough. And, and, and that’s for us as African Americans because I believe if the greatest quarterback in the world, he’s a white quarterback, if it’s Brady, if it’s Rodgers, if it’s Manning.
And we’re doing the same shit, the same exact shit, I’m talking about the phone is on. We’re like, ‘Yo, get that fucking phone out of my face. I’m with my family.’ If we’re out with our family, and we say that shit, and somebody posts it, and if Aaron Rodgers or one of those guys say that shit, and they post it, somebody’s going to be like, ‘Hey you guys should respect Aaron Rodgers.’”
LeBron James: “They’re going to say to us, ‘Oh, you guys are fucking dickheads.’”
Odell goes on to say he feels like a zoo animal at times.
Flip the page for the video and try to think about what he is saying.