"A lot of folks assumed that that part of our country was no longer, based on the election of President Obama. But what Donald Trump did was, he reached for a demographic of people who responded to some of the most infantile, non-decent language that you could expect coming from a president candidate. Folks bit."
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"All the tactics that he used to get elected are the very things that someone like me, who works with youth on a consistent basis, are the things that we try to talk our young folks out of being," West said. "We try to talk our young people out of being bullies. We try to talk our young men out of disrespecting women. We try to talk our young people into being accepting of other people's opinions and other people's walks of life.
Way back in February, Shaun Livingston said he "definitely wouldn't go" if the Warriors won this year because his own views would keep him from wanting to be there.Owner Joe Lacob, although he has donated to certain Republican campaigns, earmarks much more of his money on the Democratic side.There is now precedent for skipping out on the ceremony for political reasons. Earlier this year several members of the Super Bowl winning New England Patriots declined to go, including Chris Long, LeGarrette Blount, Devin McCourty, and Martellus Bennett. Tom Brady, a friend of Donald Trump who pleaded for folks to put politics aside, skipped the visit so he could spend time with his ailing mother. Still, the Patriots sent a full delegation that a spokesman said was "roughly the same" size as the one two years prior. Even if the Warriors sent some kind of delegation, it likely would not be as well-attended.Or perhaps the Warriors will visit the White House to make a political statement, much like former Chicago Bulls guard Craig Hodges did in 1991 when he presented President George H. W. Bush with a two-page letter urging for better treatment of African-Americans.It's also not totally out of the realm of possibility that the President is petty enough to not even extend an invitation after these comments get unearthed in the coming days.Then again, maybe the Warriors will go to Washington, but not the White House:"And he is the complete opposite of all of that."