Several weeks ago James suggested that race played a factor in some of the negative press he’s been receiving. Now James is receiving racist Tweets to demonstrate his claim of race is real.
James issued the following after he released the Tweets, "I just want you guys to see it also," James said after the Heat's practice Wednesday afternoon. "To see what type of words that are said toward me and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not."
One of the Tweets characterized James as, "a big nosed big lipped bug eyed (racial slur). Ur greedy, u try to hide ur ghettoness."
Another Tweet stated, "Why don't u speak by laying ur head under a moving car."
Now do you believe LeBron James is unfairly playing the race card?
Much of the negative scrutiny James is getting surfaced a result of the interview he and his manager Maverick Carter conducted with CNN's Soledad O'Brien.
Here’s how James and Carter responded to the criticism:
“It’s just about control and not doing it the way it’s always been done or not looking the way t ...
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