LeBron James calls reporters over lack of questions about 1957 Jerry Jones photo, says media were 'quick to ask' about Kyrie Irving
The photo of Jones, captured by an Associated Press photographer, shows him standing among a group of white students at North Little Rock High School in Arkansas on Sept. 9, 1957. The group was blocking six Black students who were attempting to desegregate the school and news reports said that moments after the image was taken, the students were shoved down a flight of stairs.
"When I watched Kyrie talk, and he says, 'I know who I am, but I want to keep the same energy when we're talking about my people and the things they've been through,' and that Jerry Jones photo is one of those moments that our people, Black people, have been through in America," James said after the Lakers' game on Wednesday night.
Irving was suspended for an eventual eight games by the Brooklyn Nets earlier this season after the guard - a former teammate of James' with the Cleveland Cavaliers - tweeted a link to a film containing antisemitic material.
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