Golden State Warriors respond to Trump withdrawing Steph Curry invite

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The Golden State Warriors have responded to President Trump uninviting them to the White House. The team will instead spend their time in DC celebrating “equality, diversity and inclusion” which are the values they “embrace as an organization.”

“While we intended to meet as a team at the first opportunity we had this morning to collaboratively discuss a potential visit to the White House, we accept President Trump has made it clear that we are not invited,” the team stated.

“We believe there is nothing more American than our citizens having the right to express themselves freely on matters important to them. We’re disappointed that we did not have an opportunity during this process to share our views or have an open dialogue on issues impacting our communities that we felt would be important to raise,” the statement went on to say.

These comments come on the heels of Donald Trump withdrawing the team’s invite to the White House after Steph Curry said he did not want to go. After hearing that he was uninvited, Curry said “It was amazing to see all of these guys [NBA players] rally around each other. That’s what this about. I commend and applaud everyone that’s spoken up. That’s what we are supposed to do. It’s really important.”

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Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has also slammed the president for rescinding an invitation for the NBA champions to visit the White House.

After Trump tweeted, “Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!” Coach Kerr responded, “The idea of civil discourse with a guy who is tweeting and demeaning people and saying the things he’s saying is sort of far-fetched.

“Can you picture us really having a civil discourse with him?

“It was an actual chance to talk to the president,” Kerr went on. “After all, he works for us. He’s a public servant. He may not be aware of that, but he is a public servant, right? So maybe as NBA champions, as people in a prominent position, we could go in and say, ‘This is what’s bothering us, what can we do about this?’”

He also brought up the stark difference in the president’s response to free speech depending on who is practicing it.

“How about the irony of, ‘Free speech is fine if you’re a neo-Nazi chanting hate slogans, but free speech is not allowed to kneel in protest?’” Kerr said.

“No matter how many times a football player says, ‘I honor our military, but I’m protesting police brutality and racial inequality,’ it doesn’t matter. Nationalists are saying, ‘You’re disrespecting our flag.’ Well, you know what else is disrespectful to our flag? Racism. And one’s way worse than the other.”

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