Jemele Hill Shreds Jared Kushner For His Comments on NBA Player Protests: ‘Tone Deaf and Just Frankly Embarrassing’

The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill took swipes at Jared Kushner for going after NBA players who are protesting games in the wake of Jacob Blake’s police shooting — calling his comments “tone deaf and just frankly embarrassing”

Kusher faulted NBA players for protesting their games, noting that they having the “luxury” and “financial position” to take a night off from work. He later criticized the NBA for their activism and their use of political slogans, adding that only “actual action” would solve the problem.

“I think it’s really interesting that somebody whose father-in-law who ran on the campaign — father-in-law that is quite wealthy, at least according to him — ran on the campaign that America wasn’t great enough, and that’s fine if the billionaire or reported billionaire complains about the condition in this country, but not Black athletes,” Hill pointed out.

Hill noted that Black athletes have been told throughout history to stop speaking up and that they are not worthy of using their voice.

“I thought what he said was tone deaf and just frankly embarrassing,” she added. “I shouldn’t be surprised, cause considering the source.”

She went on to point out that athletes are frustrated considering they have been trying to have a calm, peaceful conversation about race and racism in the United States for a while now, by kneeling during the national anthem and wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts.

“In this NBA bubble, the players have done an excellent job of trying to steer conversations away from basketball to talk about police violence and voter suppression. Their reward for doing all of this is to have an incident like Jacob Blake,” Hill pointed out. “To see a black man shot in his back seven times nearly executed in front of his own children, and I can’t blame them for feeling, not just frustrated, but also feeling like they have to do something more drastic.”

MSNBC’s Katy Tur asked Hill to expand on what American people are failing to understand when it comes to race relations and protesting in the United States.

“Black people are just really tired of always having to beg for our humanity, and it always being conditional on how we look, how we behave, what we do,” Hill explained. “It shouldn’t be that way for anybody in this country, so, unfortunately, there is just too much invested in seeing that happen. It’s not that people don’t understand. It’s that people like it this way, and that’s the heartbreaking part for those of us who are Black in this country.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.