Cenk Uygur
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Minnesota Timberwolves Too White?
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November 3, 2012
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5:27Now Playing"The Minnesota Timberwolves are too white, according to local civil rights leaders. We've come a long way from the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
That's where Alabama state troopers attacked marchers in 1965. U.S. Rep. John Lewis still bears the scars from a fractured skull.
When it comes to civil rights, I think of Thurgood Marshall arguing against school segregation before the Supreme Court. I think of Medgar Evers getting assassinated in his driveway in Mississippi.
Somehow, Martell Webster getting replaced by a guy from Russia doesn't stack up. Then again, I'm not chairman of the Twin Cities' African American Leadership Council.
"How did we get to a roster that resembles the 1955 Lakers?" Tyrone Terrell told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "I think everything is a strategy. Nothing happens by happenstance."* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson, and Rick Strom (Host, TYT Sports) break down this argument, and whether or not it is deliberate, racist, or nothing to worry about.
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