LeBron James explained why he slammed the media over the 1957 resurfaced photo of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones during the alternate coverage of Thursday Night Football.
Just over a week ago, after the Lakers’ 128-109 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, James accused media of double standards after a recently surfaced photo showed Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones as a 14-year-old during a civil rights clash at his Little Rock high school in 1957.
At the time, James inquired why he hadn’t been asked about Jones, despite fielding questions for much of November about former teammate, Kyrie Irving, who faced accusations of anti-Semitism.
LeBron James explained why he slammed the media over the 1957 resurfaced photo of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones during Thursday Night Football’s crossover with The Shop
14-year-old Jerry Jones (circled) is seen in a 1957 photo attending an anti-integration protest.
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James explained why he felt the need to call out the media on the subject during The Shop’s crossover with TNF.
‘Just accountability man,’ James began to explain. ‘You know, the media is so quick to hold us athletes, especially us black athletes, you know, always hold us accountable.
‘We can’t make mistakes. We can’t do this. They want to bring up everything. I want to hold the media accountable.
‘The fact that they didn’t ask anyone of us. I didn’t hear a question from any athlete, you know, especially in the basketball world, about the situation.
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James accused the press of double standards, questioning why he wasn’t quizzed on the photo
Owner and President of the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones
Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving
‘I’m just holding them accountable – let them know I see. I am definitely woke that’s for sure.’
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James abruptly brought out the old photo of Jones, which the Cowboys owner had previously explained, without any prompting from media on November 30.
‘I got one question for you guys before you guys leave,’ James said to reporters last week. ‘I was thinking when I was on my way over here, I was wondering why I haven’t gotten a question from you guys about the Jerry Jones photo.
‘But when the Kyrie [Irving] thing was going on, you guys were quick to ask us questions about that.’
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In the 65-year-old photo, Jones is seen among white students at Arkansas’ North Little Rock High as they blocked six African-American teenagers from entering and integrating the school.
Jones has acknowledged to the Washington Post that that it is, indeed, him in the photograph, although he claims he was there out of curiosity and not any racist intent.
Irving found himself in the eye of an anti-Semitic storm, which began after the former Cavalier posted a link to an Amazon documentary on his social media in October.