While many people are supportive of civil right’s activist Al Sharpton’s acts to help the black community, many see him as an opportunist who jumps on every major injustice to get his face out there. Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas is part of the latter. Following the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of the police, Arenas called out Sharpton calling him a “coon” and “thot”. When asked about the comments Sharpton wasn’t familiar with who Arenas was and said using those terms says more about Arenas than himself. Well Arenas took to his Instagram account again to address what his real issue with Sharpton is.
Though Sharpton says he doesn’t know Arenas, according to Gilbert, Sharpton spoke out against him in 2010 during his incident with teammate Javaris Crittenton. During that incident, Arenas was suspended for 50 games after pulling out several guns in the locker room following a disagreement with Crittenton. Arenas says Sharpton did not know all the facts before he addressed the situation.
*PHOTOS IN GALLERY ABOVE*
transcript via Jocks and Stiletto Jill:
I’m glad you remember who I was, opening your mouth before the facts came out, I did not point a gun at my teammate. For a matter of fact, no one seen (sic) me with a gun in my possession, I was honest about it, a teammate said he would shoot me so I decided to call that bluff and bring the guns for him but becuz u decided to act like a #THOT and get involved before facts actually came I was suspended 50 games… wht was expected fromt the #voiceofthevoiceless is doing research on what actually happen (sic) that day… then if u decided to tell David Stern to suspend us for 50 games I would have felt a little bit better because you knew the facts and u decided off of that… you told #TMZ yesterday… Gilbert Arenas has no business criticizing me,
2010 I was thinkn (sic) the same thing when u came out of nowhere like a chick in the club when the bottles got to poppn (sic) on my locker room issue. So when I say ur a media whore and only come around when the light come on I’m RIGHT… I don’t need to compare my community stats against you because I don’t pretend to be the black peoples superman… I called you out because if the so call (sic) leader was in #STL after #mikebrownRIP got shot, no other lives would’ve been taken or hurt… because #alsharpton was by their side waiting for justice… but naww the proclaim by #Obama #thevoiceofthevoiceless was not ready for his red carpet entrance. What ended up happening by u not going on the 10th???
I’ll tell you, cops are used (sic) brute force and starting (sic) doing everything and anything they’ve always wanted to do in the first place… always remember before there’s a fire, there’s smoke CHECK OUT THE SMOKE before the fire starts..
Also noted by Jill:
Since the 2010 locker room incident, Javaris Crittenon has been arrested for the murder of an Atlanta woman and attempting to traffic drugs. Plus an incident of domestic violence. Arenas has largely stayed out of trouble minus a traffic stop arrest for fireworks.
Gilbert has since deleted this post and his initial post on Sharpton.
