IFWT_MLK Day 3

I love that they did this!!  The Bleacher Report shared a great interview today.  Miami Heat players revealed what they would say to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via @EthanJSkolnick).  Thank you Dr. King for all that you did!!!  Check out their answers…

GameTimeGirl

Monday evening, the Miami Heat will play the Atlanta Hawks in the city where King was born 85 years ago. In light of that, this seemed to be the appropriate time to ask the stars and some of their teammates another short, simple, but equally significant question.

Given 10 minutes with the civil rights leader (who was killed in 1968), what would they say?

LeBron James
“How did he have the strength to do the things that he was doing in such a time and place of segregation? How was he able to march and lead and tell his dreams and tell his stories in places you weren’t, you weren’t supposed to be? You know, in the South. Deep in the South, he was doing it. I would want to know, how did you work up that courage, how did you know you had that gift?”
Dwyane Wade

“I know that to be the first to do something, to step out on a limb, you have to have courage to do it. I would want to know how scared he was to be that person, to take that stand. Non-violent, just wanting to be different. And a lot of us are scared to do what we want to do because of what other people may say or what other people may do. He wasn’t.

“But I would want to know: Was he afraid, was he nervous, was he scared for his family? All those kind of questions would come, because it was a tough situation he was in. We would talk for a long time. All kind of questions. I got all kind of questions for the man.”

Chris Bosh

“At first, I think I’d let him talk. I probably wouldn’t say a word. The only question I’d ask him is why, why, why? Sometimes that’s the biggest word in the world. You know, why he did what he did, why he had his philosophies, in a non-violent way, because the first thing when somebody does violence to you, you want to retaliate.

“And he didn’t teach that message, he led by example, and I just want to know why he would do that against guys who didn’t see eye to eye with you? And that’s OK. But they were violent. But it takes a very, very, very mature and a very big person to…you know, he had to have been from another world or something, man. It’s just remarkable.”

 

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