Will Barton said the NBA’s limited choices didn’t factor into his decision not to wear a jersey message when the NBA returns from Orlando.
“I wasn’t going to do it anyway,” Barton said Friday from Orlando.
Barton said he didn’t want to “cheat my people” by wearing one and reinforced his skepticism that those messages will foster any meaningful change.
“Sports has been around for a long time, we’ve been putting T-shirts on and trying to bring awareness,” Barton said. “At this point, I feel like that’s not going to really do anything. I don’t even want to cheat my people like that. I’d rather just keep trying to educate the youth and just try to show people how to survive in this cruel world.”
Fourteen of the Nuggets’ players decided to wear jersey messages, ranging from “Black Lives Matter” to “Vote” to “Equality.”
Barton emphasized the need for education and action. He said he’s working with his personal public relations team to coordinate speaking engagements with Baltimore schools and YMCAs. He even mentioned the possibility of doing Zoom calls with kids.
“I’m already active where I’m from anyway,” Barton said. “I’m always in the trenches. I’m always talking to them and giving them free game. So, I’m just going to continue to do that. Like I said, if it can’t be a revolution, we gotta learn how to survive in this cruel world, so I’m just gonna give them game on how to survive and still be successful because I’m a living testament to it. I figured it out.”
Barton echoed many of the same themes he told The Denver Post three weeks when he voiced frustration that African Americans are still facing the same issues as previous generations.
“If Black people in America were to say today, ‘We’re going to war,” he said then. “We’re going to war, not with white people, (but) with racist America, would you stand and fight with Black people against racists or would you be out of the way? Would you put your life on the line for a Black person for what’s right or what’s wrong?”
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