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Is Mark Cuban Being Misunderstood?

Posted on May 22nd, 2014
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NBA owners have been on the chopping block as of late. Following the Donald Sterling controversy, Dallas Maverick owner, Mark Cuban, sat down for an interview with Inc. for the magazine’s annual GrowCo. convention. Cuban has found himself in some hot water after providing his thoughts on prejudice and bigotry.

“We’re a lot less tolerant of different views. It’s not necessarily easy for everyone to adopt or adapt or evolve. We’re all prejudiced in one way or the other,” he explained. “If I see a black kid and it’s late at night in a hoodie on my side of the street, I’ll move to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street there’s a guy with tattoos on his face, white guy, tattoos all over, bald head I’m going back to the other side of the street.”

Cuban has set the Twitersphere ablaze for particularly describing a “black kid in a hoodie” in the midst of the NBA’s recent falling out due to Sterling’s racist comments. His assertion in the clip, however, is that no one embodies pure thoughts and each person embodies their own personal biases.

“None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses,” he said. “It’s part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it and not just kick the problem down the road,” he said.

The business man has not gone into hiding while folks sound off on social media. Cuban has taken to his own Twitter account to debate and explain what he meant as well as push the public to watch the clip in it’s entirety instead of singling on one quote.

you’re trying to make this about a Hoodie. You know damn well its not. It’s about whatever makes You feel threatened,” he tweeted.

Watch the full clip above, do you think Cuban’s words are being taken out of context?

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