One day after crowds of President Donald Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, Lakers star LeBron James questioned how the response to the siege would have been different if the group of rioters was mostly Black.
"We live in two Americas, and that was a prime example of that yesterday," James said, via CNN, following the Lakers' 118-109 loss to the Spurs on Thursday night. "And if you don't understand that or don't see that after seeing what you saw yesterday then you really need to take a step back–not even just one step, maybe four or five or even 10 steps backwards and ask yourself.