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San Antonio Coach Gregg Popovich on the Tragedy of the
Presidential Election
“And what gets lost in the
process are African Americans, and Hispanics, and women, and
the gay population, not to mention the eighth-grade
developmental stage exhibited by him when he made fun of the
handicapped person. I mean, come on. That’s what a
seventh-grade, eighth-grade bully does. And he was elected
president of the United States. We would have scolded our
kids. We would have had discussions until we were blue in
the face trying to get them to understand these things. He
is in charge of our country. That’s disgusting.
“One could go on and on, we didn’t make this stuff up. He’s
angry at the media because they reported what he said and
how he acted. That’s ironic to me. It makes no sense. So
that’s my real fear, and that’s what gives me so much pause
and makes me feel so badly that the country is willing to be
that intolerant and not understand the empathy that’s
necessary to understand other group’s situations. I’m a rich
white guy, and I’m sick to my stomach thinking about it. I
can’t imagine being a Muslim right now, or a woman, or an
African American, a Hispanic, a handicapped person. How
disenfranchised they might feel. And for anyone in those
groups that voted for him, it’s just beyond my comprehension
how they ignore all of that. My final conclusion is, my big
fear is — we are Rome.”
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