no more prayers

No more minutes of silence.

actions. Measures to prevent other children from leaving their homes one morning and never returning. Steve Kerr’s outburst in the early morning hours of Wednesday (May 25) was honest. Authentic. His scowling eyes didn’t matter, his beatings were real, they showed his mental state following the Texas school massacre that left an unbalanced 18-year-old entering elementary school and claimed the lives of 21 people, 19 children and two adults.

Why;

Why so.

Because those who choose to do so in the US continue to turn a blind eye to gun ownership because finding a gun is as easy as finding a bottle of water.

It was not the first time Kerr spoke yesterday about the problems facing the American people. He has done it many times in the past, he has defended blacks who are still in the crosshairs of whites today, in mid-2022, he is a champion of democracy, equality, justice.

And how could it not be since his father was murdered in a terrorist attack in Beirut at the age of 52 when he was 18 and playing at the University of Arizona. The hand of two gunmen killed his father who was president of the American University in Lebanon and now, four decades later, one cannot say that much has changed in our world. But he can say that everything has gotten worse.

“In the last ten days we’ve seen older blacks murdered in Buffalo, Asians murdered in Southern California, children murdered in their school. When are we going to do something? I’m tired of coming here and offering my condolences to the families. I’m sick of a minute’s silence. arrives There are 50 senators refusing to pass the law to review the story of a man who died years ago and is waiting there. And you know why they don’t vote for him. To maintain their power and authority. I got bored. Got tired. I can not stand it anymore“were the words of the grumpy, very disappointed Kerr, while other members of the NBA family took their places.

The Warriors coach erupted again. Because that’s his character. Because he knows his power and his reputation, because he wants to offer whatever it is, because he wants to sleep knowing that he has spoken, that he has pressured people and situations, that he has tried, so much he able to change the world, even in the smallest degree. How many of us are really working for change? Do we have the power or not, how many do we want and how many are we trying to improve the environment we live in?

We need more Steve Kerr. We need people of reputation, balanced characters to even state the obvious. Unfortunately this is the reality and if the 98 is the obvious… it goes without saying that there will be two that we will need to handle differently, with more understanding and definitely with more attention. We need more Steve Kerr to pressurize those who are deciding whether we are going to talk about the US and gun ownership or Greece and our own problems that are constantly growing, pressurizing and destroying people.

We need other Ker. And other Lewis Hamilton. Everyone is allowed to have an opinion on the Hamilton Guide. But what can one blame the Hamilton man for? The only black man in the history of Formula 1 with a total of 770 to 780 drivers, the only one who spoke of equality and justice until a year or two ago, who dared to say that he had no desire to drive in Saudi Arabia, because there are still women prisoners because … they drove. Because they are simply treated as inferior beings.

The one who championed gender equality as did Black Lives Matter, the one who criticized discrimination based on sexual orientation. The one his teammates criticize for wearing outlandish colors while, through his social media accounts, constantly and incessantly urges his followers to believe in themselves and pursue their dreams. We need such athletes, people who don’t care about money, but so that humanity advances, to eradicate the pathogenesis of centuries, so that man loves man.

We need athletes who inspire and influence.

We need real influencers. Not products, but values.

We need basketball players, soccer players, drivers, athletes of all kinds to come forward and speak up without fear. Yes, to state the obvious. Heck, it’s not for everyone. This is the reality, let’s be realistic and adapt as much as possible.

We need more good people, with good spirits, with good souls. We need Kerr and Hamilton. No, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Not because the Swede is a narcissist like no other, but because no one can shut up and play, he told LeBron James.

And no, LeBron is not the perfect example we need, no matter how many schools he’s built, no matter how many hundreds of millions he’s invested in charities. And it is not, because on certain matters that “burn” it has not taken the position that we expected it to have. It didn’t affect China when its administration dissolved the NBA, financially and psychologically, and it didn’t affect it because it gets almost half of its annual revenue from China.

How can we forget the attack on Daryl Mori when the Houston Rockets agent at the time was supporting Hong Kong’s freedom? How can we forget that he called him uninformed and explained: “Many people have suffered financially, emotionally, and spiritually, so we must be careful about what we sayWho can forget that LeBron “handed” someone who demanded the freedom of the people and no more than that?

Freedom of expression must be protected. Sentences like that of Zlatan who said: “Athletes unite the world and must be athletes, politics asideWe don’t need other Ibrahimovic, selfish, vain, so called characters, we don’t need other controversial characters, we don’t need other Steve Kerr and other Lewis Hamilton athletes risking money for equal rights, justice and freedom.

And I wish there were similar ones in our part of the world. And eventually to come forward and speak, support, inspire, lead.

I wish…