{"id":153726,"date":"2020-06-21T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=153726"},"modified":"2020-06-21T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:05:16","slug":"russell-westbrook-i-dont-want-my-kids-growing-up-to-see-police-as-somebody-that-is-bad-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/russell-westbrook-i-dont-want-my-kids-growing-up-to-see-police-as-somebody-that-is-bad-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Westbrook: I don&#8217;t want my kids growing up to see police as somebody that is bad for them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets star Russell Westbrook is one of the most active NBA players in the fight against racism.<\/p>\n<p>This week he announced that is funding a docu-series on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Westbrook attended the Juneteenth Block Party in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>His statements, via<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rockets_Insider\"> Alykhan Bijani<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russell Westbrook: \u201cI don&#8217;t want my kids growing up to see the police as somebody that is bad for them, to see them as somebody that&#8217;s gonna potentially to be able to kill them&#8230;That&#8217;s something that we need to change.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rockets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rockets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JOmcediNFT\">https:\/\/t.co\/JOmcediNFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alykhan Bijani (@Rockets_Insider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rockets_Insider\/status\/1274524588848930817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russell Westbrook: &#8220;I feel like my duty is to be able to get people educated on why you should vote, understand what you&#8217;re voting for, understand why you should vote&#8230;That&#8217;s where I want to be able to make change in today&#8217;s society.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rockets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rockets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ezc4la8i0Z\">pic.twitter.com\/Ezc4la8i0Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alykhan Bijani (@Rockets_Insider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rockets_Insider\/status\/1274514757572313089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russell Westbrook: \u201cI can reach that demographic of people and kids and let them know it&#8217;s okay to stand up&#8230;It&#8217;s going to be a struggle. It&#8217;s not just -snap of a finger- going to change tomorrow. Just take it step by step. Whether it&#8217;s protests, finding ways to bring light&#8230;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UnZ23DKtEO\">pic.twitter.com\/UnZ23DKtEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alykhan Bijani (@Rockets_Insider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rockets_Insider\/status\/1274509134734508034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westbrook is funding a docu-series on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[553,2277],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-153726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-houston-rockets","tag-russell-westbrook","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153726"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=153726"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=153726"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=153726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}