(Jewish Group) We watched the movie Kyrie Irving shared so you don't have to
When NBA players union president CJ McCollum criticized Kyrie Irving for linking to an antisemitic movie on Twitter last month, he seemed to confirm what many had already guessed.
“I don’t think he understood the magnitude of the movie,” McCollum said, “because he didn’t watch it.”
Irving, who hasn’t played since he was suspended Nov. 4, may not have watched the three-and-a-half-hour “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” but I did, both to see for myself what was in it and to see if it were possible — as Irving implied in his apology — to believe parts of the movie without somehow buying the hateful stuff.
That means I survived the 20-minute commercial reel for the director’s other projects that leads the film, the interminable PowerPoint slide-reading that dominates it, and the repetition of the same dramatic-build theme music for hours on end.
So, to spare you the $12 it costs to stream it on Amazon Prime, here are five takeaways, if you can call them that.
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