In the wee hours of Wednesday morning we learned that the first black President in U.S. history will now give way to a new one who is endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan. Barack Obama’s now inevitable replacing by Donald Trump as the leader of the free world, will officially be celebrated by the KKK with a parade in North Carolina on December 3rd, according to The Hill.
The most recently updated popular vote count has Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump by about 1.8 million votes, and there are still many ballots left to be counted in heavily Democratic counties.
(Related: Stan Van Gundy calls the American electorate out for what they did)
Clinton’s popular vote victory is of course fundamentally meaningless, and no matter how many votes she eventually wins by, will ring hollow. The Electoral College, a remnant of the early 19th century created to accommodate the political ambitions of slave-holders according to a Time magazine article, decides the election, not the popular vote.
Trump’s campaign consistently espoused bigotry, intolerance, prejudice, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia and racism. All Trump voters implicitly endorsed those “beliefs” through the act of voting for him.
His election has disgusted and offended much of the country, including some of the National Basketball Association’s leading figures. Many NBA Coaches and players have spoken out since America shocked almost every political pundit and pollster around by electing Trump.
The list includes Milwaukee Bucks and native Chicagoan Jabari Parker, who Tweeted on election night:
https://twitter.com/JabariParker/status/796223906252279808
https://twitter.com/JabariParker/status/796217253918375936
Later Parker struck a more at peace tone:
https://twitter.com/JabariParker/status/796229840856813569
In addition to Jabari Parker, another player selected right near the top of the famed 2014 NBA Draft class, Joel Embiid, expressed his disgust with what happened Tuesday night. Embiid went third overall, while Jabari Parker went second. Embiid took a much more comical approach, but you can feel his pain anyway.
It was hilarious to see Embiid reference the Sixers’ cliche motivational slogan
Well America is tanking!!! All we can do is Trust The Process…
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) November 9, 2016
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