Fruition and see stories of kids thats going through the same thing i went through, it makes it even more like yes, we did this. This is why we should have did it. But there is a lot that has got lebron james fired up off the court. Listen to what he says about living while black in america. No matter how big you can become or no matter what you do in the community. No matter what you do in your profession, being African American in america is always tough, and they always going to let you know that you are the nword no matter who you are. Is there a run for office in his future . Someone tried to recruit a lebron to run for president , they said listen, they got no one. If you dont run, trump is going to win. Would you run . Well, in that case i may. This is the interview that you dont want to miss. Lebron james, one on one. Thank you. A recap of the days news. They brought this together and brought it to me. I was like absolutely. You cant get nowhere in life without help. You were i think a third grader who interviewed you for teen vogue, right . And asked you about all the challenges and about the single mom. Right . I relate to that. I grew up a single mom who is my hero. Is that one of the reasons this is important to you . Absolutely. Its one of the huge reasons that its important. Because everyday struggle me and my mom had to go through at that age. Being in the third or fourth grade. For us to be in a position where we can see stories of kids thats going through the same thing that i went through, it makes it even more like yes, we did this. This is why we should have did it. How do you conquer those fears . Jaden was his name, talked about Hearing Gunshots and that sort of things, being tempted by drugs and all those things. How do you think how do you get them to understand thats not the path they have to take . I think being in a support
system and thats what this is all about. I think for me, when i did go to school, or when i was playing Little League sports, you know, being around kids and being around people that have fun and kind of speak the same language as you, it allows you to kind of escape away from the drugs and the violence and the gunshots and things that go on on an everyday basis, and thats what were here for. Im opening the schools to be able to get these kids minds and bodies away from we made the hours of being in School Longer until five. Thats a long time. We want them here so we can let them know not only do we want you here, but we really do care about what happens with you. People say hes an athlete. Athletics are big, but this is a stem school. Its science, mathematics and reading. All that. Math, reading, social studies, all the way down to gym class,
friends flow growing up. It was pretty cool. And even bedtime. 7 30, 8 00. Yeah. None of that for me. Im glad you mentioned that. Ive been watching you, especially for a long time. This is not the first time ive interviewed you. I interviewed for your website and other things you did. But theres been something has changed in you over the last year or two. Is it whats going on in the country racially . Is it politically political . I think its a little bit of everything. I think it starts with the Trayvon Martin situation, and the reason it starts with that, i believe, is because having kids of my own, having boys of my own, it hit home for me to see and learn the story and to think if my boy left home and he never returned. You know . That kind of that kind of hit a switch. That kind of hit a switch for me. And from that point on, i knew
that my voice and my platform had to be used for more than just sports. Right. Good for you. Good for you, man. You said that your boy, your boy never returned home, but then there are people, kids are returning home. You think about the kids being taken away. The same thing that, your heart breaks when you think someone comes over, they want a better life and their kids are being taken away from them. I cant imagine that. And weve always grown up saying this is the land of the free and opportunity here in america, and to be a parent, to be a father, to be a husband and to think that you can have a beautiful family one day and the next day they can be taken away, its something that you never ever could imagine. You were talking about athletics. Right . How you think this president is dividing. I think about the kids now. There are kids who are selling water. I interviewed a little kid who wanted some action figures, and he was out doing stuff with his mom and he got the cops called
on him. How do you tell these kids eve within that when youre just living while black, how do you get them to keep going . I think you know what im talking about, right . I think the best way to tell them to keep going is no matter how successful you could become, no matter dwwho you are when youre an American Kid Male or female, youre always going against obstacleobstacles. You can allow it to effect you and for you to degrade, or you can allow it to empower you even more, and to rise above it. I think if we look at some of the greatest leaders of our time, you look at muhammad ali and Martin Luther king, they never let the diversity down them. They always used it to say okay, this is even more motivation. This is even more a way for me to even be more powerful, and
theyre the reason were here today. Your challenges become goals, and your haters become your motivators. Absolutely. So you were talking about the using athletics to divide people. Yeah. You heard what the Man In Charge what the president said about marshawn, about steph, about, you know, it seems like its kaepernick. Yeah. Men of colors who have means and a platform. Whats up with that . Well, its wrong. Its not up. Its down. For him to like i say, use sports to kind of divide us is something i cant sit back and not say nothing. You tweeted about a couple of these. Yeah. You tweeted about when steph curry, you called him a bum because he but steph had already said im not going to the white house. He already said he wasnt going. He tried to use it after that to
say youre not invited. You cant uninvite me to something i said i wasnt going to go to. Steph curry, great kid, great family, great father, and so many different kids so many kids white, black, hispanic, all different races love what hes doing and rightfully so. Theres no reason for anyone to ever attack him. And thats i felt that. Whenever theres Something Like hes in trouble, he cant wiggle his way out of something, hell bring up the National Anthem and kneeling or standing. Do you think he uses black athletes as a scapegoat . At times and more often than not, i believe he uses anything thats popular to try to negate people from thinking act the positive things they can be doing and try to get our minds to not be as sharp as possible right then. Either from Football Players kneeling. Look at kaepernick who was
protesting something he believed in and he did in the most calm way possible. Very respectful. He did his due diligence. Everyone knew why he did it. Look at the nfl players still kneeling. You look at steph and Marshawn Lynch and all these instances why hes trying to divide our sport, but at the end of the day sport is the reason why we all come together. Yeah. What do you i just wonder where we go from here, because to a lot of People Charlottesville was it. I mean, you tweeted, i think you said is this what our country is, make America Great again . I think that was for everybody like all right, thats enough. I cant believe this. Absolutely. I mean, we all felt that. It didnt matter what color you are to feel that tension, to feel like our great country, you know, that we all wake up every day in the land of the free as we believe with great
opportunity to be even more than what people even expect you to become for that to happen, you just felt like that was that was kind of the tipping point. Will you i guess maybe you were surprised. Maybe you werent. The whole nword incident at your house when it was painted . I dont know if i was surprised. I dont know if i was hurt. I dont know if i was disappointed. It was so many different emotions. More importantly, it was the conversation that i had to have with my boys that it was that hurt me. But at the same time it also enlightened me and also knew that no matter as i stated, you know, when i did an interview after that, that no matter how big you can become, no how successful you are, no matter what you do in your community or profession, being African American in america is always tough, and they always going to let you know that you are the nword no matter who you are, and that was just a reset. Even when you have lebron status, lebron money. It doesnt you think its harder when you see the incidents about being black, just living, do you think its harder now or were just seeing it because of cell phones . I think its always been there. But i think the president in charge now has given people they dont care now. They throw it in your face now. Would you ever run for office . Run for office . Would you ever be a politician and run for office . I dont think so. I dont think so. I dont know. Im being serious. If someone tried to recruit a lebron to run for president , they said will listen, theyve o one. If you dont run, trumps going to win. Would you run . Well, in that case i may. If they had no one, i mean, i believe theres some people out there, i hope. Lets see first. Lets see first. You would run . Right here . I would never sit across from him. You dont want to talk to him . No. Id sit across from barack, though. I loved sitting down with lebron today. What i loved is that he is his his authenticity. I was sitting down with a celebrity who didnt care about oh, were going to offend this demographic or somebody might not buy my record because of this or may not come to a game because of this. Lebron is who he is. He says it like he means. Im so glad hes around to do that and more people should continue to do that in this environment. Thank you, lebron james. Mr. President , think about that. Professional athlete doing a good thing for his community. That would be nice to talk about. We have more to come in the next hour when he gives me an exclusive tour of his school. Plus youll find out why hes giving every one of his students a new bike. When we come back, youll hear
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to speak his mind about President Trump. Lets does now. A former ohio senator and former assistant to president bush. Both nina and scott are political cnn commentators. Chris, ill start with you. Let me remind everyone of what laura ingram said in february. Must they run their mouth like that . Unfortunately a lot of kids and some adults take these ignorant comments seriously. Look, there might be a cautionary lesson in lebron for kids. This is what happens when you attempt to leave high school a year early to join the nba. And its always unwise to seek political advice from one who gets paid 100 million a year to bounce a ball. Oh, and lebron and kevin, youre great players but no one voted for you. Millions elected trump to be
their coach. So keep the political commentary to yourself, or as someone said, shut up and dribble. I mean i mean, its just. Let me start from the beginning. Must they run their mouths like that . Like, really . I almost said a bad word. Who does she think she is to talk to someone about that . 100 million to dribble a basketball . Thats not what it is, and look at what hes doing now. Im sorry. Go on. I just. You know this one dimensional view of anyone is a problem. Right . I want to be able to talk about sports, so im not going to be a guy who says that athletes cant talk about politics. I would also say that theres a lesson in trumps victory that Laura Ingram Doesnt Touch Which is that im not sure that the average person is looking for a political pundits view on
things as much as theyre looking for views of other people in the culture they respect. Again, just because theyre good at a sport doesnt mean you cant have opinions about other things. Lebron james, kevin durant, stuff curry, draymond green, whoever you want to name im not a politician. I do real estate. But youre the president so the president of the United States should never talk politics . Thats my point. Donald trump should never talk politics . Right. Theres nothing i hate more in my own life on twitter than if i tweet something about sports or music and people say stay in your lane. Talk about politics. No one is one dimensional. That goes beyond that. Her tone, the language she used. Theres no question when you say things like shut up and dribble, and when youre dealing with a league, particularly the nba thats overwhelmingly African American, race goes with it and donald trump and the way in which he treats athletes and
the way in which hes reacted to athletes, theres no question that who is the country rocker . Whats his name thats always saying the nasty things thats always invited whats his name . Ted nugent . Its how he feeling at the time. I think he should sit across from President Trump and school him a little bit. Let me in on laura ingram. Go on. Just an insult. I just remind me of how African Americans were treated in the 20 th century, 19th century, 18th century. Just shut up and do what we tell you to do. She really showed her bigot ri and her racism to think that the only thing that lebron james or any other athlete can do is to shut up and dribble a ball. Just absolutely insulting. Call it what it is. Flat out. So, scott, you heard what
nina said. She said maybe he should sit across from him and try to school him a little bit. Speaking of schools, i promise is a school. You say lebron should work with President Trump. Why is that . Well, i think this president has shown that when celebrities of his status speak to him, he listens. Even on the issue of using president ial pardons hes taken the advice of celebrities. If i were lebron james who i have a lot of respect for, i would take a step back and say if i ever got the chance to meet the president , i would see how other people of similar Celebrity Status have used that opportunity to effect positive change. The president used pardon power to right old wrongs on alice and jack johnson. I think if lebron james talked to trump about the great story hes promoting at this school which is a wonderful story, and im glad youre doing the story tonight, i think the president would listen to that. I think theres something going on in our world. We want to hear from
nontraditional people about whats happening in our world and the public affairs. A voice lebrons could be more valuable than he knows. I think lebron knows that the president would be using him as a prop and he doesnt listen when it comes to race. He doesnt speak, by the way, theres a caveat i didnt say. He doesnt speak about Kim Kardashian or people who look like her the way he speaks about people who look lebron james. Thats right, or me. But don, this is the thing. The president may take that advice on that. He has an Attorney General that has increased the war on drugs, that has increased talking about penalizing people with the mandatory minimums. He has a division in sync with the purges going on from the voter rolls. He says one thing when it benefits him, but talking about doing Global Change and dealing with systemic racism and
discrimination, he has no parts of really trying to correct that. When we come back, well talk more. I was talking to lebron about the school but clearly he wanted to discuss these issues. These are issues that are really important to him, and hes not exempt from racism because hes lebron james and a multimillionaire. The nword was spray painted across his house not long ago. Well talk about that. Now, naturally defined brows that last. New Tattoo Brow Tint Pen from maybelline new york. Multiprong tip draws hair like strokes,
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