Jeffrey Wright, Lawrence O'Donnell, and a smattering of others brought into this that have hard and fast ignorance on full display at any given time, to discuss the late, great Bill Russell?
And WHERE is Michael Jordan? Why is he nowhere in this? Michael is one of the GOATs that needs to be talking about THE GOAT, but he's nowhere to be seen.
An otherwise good percentage of people talking about this great man who happened to be the cream of the crop, but you can't just not talk about him and not being Michael, David Robinson, etc into the arena to discuss him.
I'm just exhausted by these filmmakers who (wrongfully) believe we will just pretend these nitwits who are here on my screen didn't just call me a (insert dog whistle names here), science-denying conspiracy theorist, because I may not care what their opinion of me happens to be, but I'll be damned if I'll give my hard-earned money and/or free time to them.
What a shame- and I am proud to say I'm hardly the outlier here. I'm sure I'll be downvoted, but view numbers don't lie. There's a lot of us who happen to love Russell and watched him play, but we can live with the knowledge of knowing who he was/what he accomplished, and not bother watching things such as this that try to pander to us, as if the past seven years have just magically disappeared.
These people who falsely believe that we're going to watch because of who he was, or some mystical 'privilege' forces us to, or guilt can be assuaged need to take a hard look at who they are and the disservice they do to a legacy such is this. See, Bill Russell may have had political views I may not have agreed with, but he, along with a handful of other intelligent people out there, knew what these people can't seem to grasp- even people who don't agree with everything you espouse can be fans, too. Why alienate people who are not your enemy?
In years past many of us could set aside differences of opinions in order to view art/work, but we've come to an important crossroads here, and we are no longer willing to casually dismiss targets placed upon us in order to be entertained- I would rather watch paint dry while listening to the grass grow, and I have a feeling Mr. Russell would be okay with that.
