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LeBron James: 'We've Had Voter Suppression for So Long' — Bloomberg Businessweek
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1:25Now Playing“We've had voter suppression for so long. People not understanding how they can vote, where they can vote, if their vote really counts.”
LeBron James talks about More Than a Vote, his new initiative to encourage and register African Americans to vote.
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Earlier this month, James recruited current NBA stars such as Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks, as well as former star and now broadcaster Jalen Rose, to form More Than a Vote. The group is focused on protecting voter rights and preventing suppression, especially in Black communities. James announced it after social media posts showed people waiting for hours to cast ballots in Georgia’s primaries. “We’ve had voter suppression for so long,” James said on Zoom. “People not understanding how they can vote, where they can vote, if their vote really counts.”
After forming the group, James was criticized by Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, who accused him of being hypocritical. Wong said in a tweet that James’s position didn’t align with past comments. He was widely criticized last year for calling Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey’s support for the city’s protesters “misinformed.”
In February, when I asked what he’d learned from that experience, James said it taught him to “keep an open mind about how to continue to get better.” On the June 23 call, James said: “I speak about things that I’m knowledgeable about, that I’m educated on. And at the end of the day, right is right, and wrong is wrong. I want the betterment of people—no matter skin color, no matter race, no matter anything.”
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