The fatal shooting casts a pall on the 34-year old National Basketball Association star’s return to his hometown as a member of the Chicago Bulls after playing 13 seasons with the Miami Heat. “For me, it was tough”.
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Dwyane Wade has said he is “conflicted” over a tweet Donald Trump sent out just 24 hours after his cousin was shot dead in Chicago.
Chicago has been in the throes of a major uptick in gun violence this year, largely centered in a few South and West Side neighborhoods, after years of seeing declines.
“I really think now my goal for being back in the city is bigger than basketball”, said Wade, who participated in an ESPN-sponsored town hall meeting on Chicago’s violence the night before Aldridge was killed. Its murder rate is higher than that of NY and Los Angeles.
WOW! Dwyane Wade is firing back against the comments made for “political gain” involving his cousin’s death.
Chicago police have charged brothers Darwin and Derren Sorells with first-degree murder in Aldridge’s death.
The post Wade To Focus On More Than Basketball In Chicago appeared first on 360Nobs.com. “I’m back for a reason”. Shortly thereafter, Trump pointed to the shooting in the controversial tweet, closing with “Just what I have been saying”. “So I was grateful that it started a conversation”. “African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” “But I think my goal, at the end of the day, is hopefully to come to Chicago and be the voice that can help bring people together”.
An added challenge, he added was teaching his children to do the right thing and respect police officers at a time when many young people of color fear being wrongfully shot by the police.
“We want kids to look up to us”, Wade said, “and see what we need to be as a culture, community and country”.
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“We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton”, he said at a Wisconsin rally on August 16, “which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes – that’s all they care about – not as individual human beings worthy of a better future”. “But you know my boys hear everything that’s going on in the world …”, he said. City officials have pushed for state lawmakers to pass stricter sentencing laws targeted at repeat gun offenders.
