Fox Sports Host Marcellus Wiley Argues Passionately Against NBA Painting “Black Lives Matter” On Courts

It was reported earlier this week that, in reaction to players’ insistence on the league promoting “racial equality” and “social justice,” the NBA will paint “Black Lives Matter” on its courts when this season resumes.

One may have expected most, if not all, of sports media to be on board with this idea. But Fox Sports 1’s Marcellus Wiley, host of “Speak for Yourself,” spoke against the idea, and explained why:

“There’s a problem when you start to go down this road of freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and how much social space is allowed for those who don’t support in that same space. And that’s where I wonder where this is going to go in terms of identity politics. We know what identity politics does—it divides, and it polarizes. No matter how you want to look at it, that’s just the effect of it no matter how great the intentions are. We all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Wiley then read from BLM’s mission statement, cautioning that the group aims to “dismantle the patriarchal practice,” and “disrupt the western-described nuclear family structure requirement.”