SHANNON LONGWORTH: SAYING ‘SORRY’ WITH HALF-A-MILLION DOLLARS. BROOKLYN NETS STAR KYRIE IRVING AND THE TEAM, SAY THEY WILL EACH DONATE 500-THOUSAND-DOLLARS TO THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE, AFTER IRVING TWEETED A LINK TO A MOVIE THAT FEATURES ANTISEMITIC TROPES.

IN A NEW STATEMENT, IRVING SAID “I AM AWARE OF THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF MY POST TOWARDS THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.”

BUT THAT WASN’T THE APOLOGY NBA OFFICIALS WERE EXPECTING, SO IRVING HAS NOW BEEN SUSPENDED FROM THE TEAM, INDEFINITELY.

IRVING, WHO HAS 4.6 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS, CAME UNDER FIRE AFTER SHARING RONALD DALTON JR.’S FILM, “HEBREWS TO NEGROES: WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA”.

THE MOVIE ASSERTS THAT BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIED TO ABOUT THEIR HERITAGE AND THAT THEY ARE THE TRUE ISRAELITES. 

IT ALSO CLAIMS THAT JEWISH SHIPS BROUGHT BLACK SLAVES TO JEWISH OWNED PORTS IN THE U.S.

THE FILM IS BASED ON A CONTROVERSIAL BOOK BY DALTON. IN IT HE IMPLIES THAT “EUROPEAN JEWISH” TEACHINGS ESTABLISHED THE BASE FOR ANTI-BLACK RACISM “EVEN BEFORE THE KKK”. 

IT ALSO CLAIMS THAT “FAMOUS, HIGH-RANKING JEWS” HAVE ADMITTED TO WORSHIPING “SATAN OR LUCIFER”. AND THAT “JEWISH CONTROLLED NEWS MEDIA” IS A BRAINWASHING TOOL “HELPING SATAN DECEIVE THE WORLD.”

IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MORE&MORE BOOKS IN 2021, DALTON SAID THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR AREN’T REPRESENTED IN THE BIBLE, EVEN THOUGH, HE CLAIMED, THEY ARE THE ISRAELITES. HE SAID – “THE WHITE IMAGE OF CHRIST IS A EUROPEAN CONSTRUCT TO DECEIVE US.”

FOLLOWING THE TWITTER BACKLASH, IRVING ADMITTED TO WATCHING THE MOVIE AND DEFENDED HIS POST. BUT IN HIS APOLOGY, HE SAID – “I DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING SAID IN THE DOCUMENTARY WAS TRUE OR REFLECTS MY MORALS AND PRINCIPLES.”