Spurs’ Popovich: Maybe We Wouldn’t Have Democracy Without Blacks

Gregg Popovich, the irascible NBA Coach, went on another one of his trademark rants Sunday night just before the San Antonio Spurs faced the Philadelphia 76ers. Popovich, a volatile figure, accused Republican senators Kyrsten SInema and Joe Manchin of exposing America to selfishness. He also attacked GOP efforts to secure election integrity and said if it wasn’t for blacks, we wouldn’t have a democracy.

Popovich, who is 72 years old, was a leftist and tore apart President Donald Trump for four years. He’s also a big advocate for gun control, social justice and Black Lives Matter.

For balking at a pet Democrat bill to federalize elections, Sen. Sinema in Arizona and Sen. Manchin in West Virginia are drawing a lot attention from Democrats. They represent conservative states and both have to be careful. They can go along with the Democrats’ contentious Freedom to Vote Act and possibly blow their re-election chances in so doing. You can also stand beside the Republicans to oppose the Freedom to Vote Act and remain pariahs of their party.

Popovich spares no mercy for compromisers or anyone opposing the Democrats’ bill:

“The Republican Senate will just not participate, they just will not. It is imperative that we do everything possible to make it happen. And Sinema and Manchin they get it, but they don’t get it. They know what’s going on. They get it. But there are more important things to them, and it’s damn selfish and dangerous to our country.”

Manchin and Sinema previously joined forces with Republicans to block the voting bill and Democrat proposals to change the filibuster rules that would make it easier for President Joe Biden and Democrats to push these bad bills forward.

“It’s just ironic to me,” Popovich railed. “Every time we take steps forward, you get the backlash. The fact that the voting rights issue is in the situation it’s in is just mind-boggling to me in one sense, because we’ve already gone through this back in the ’60s, and we know what the Supreme Court did earlier in gutting it.”

Popovich then made an outrageous statement. “But it’s like we don’t get it. It’s like, maybe there wouldn’t be a democracy if it wasn’t for Black people.”

Whatever that’s supposed to mean, it is one darn stupid comment by a guy who obviously would do better to stay in his basketball lane than openly display his foolishness.