{"id":76885,"date":"2020-09-28T05:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T02:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/emotional-nets-talks-sparked-joe-tsais-50m-social-justice-fund\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T05:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T02:06:28","slug":"emotional-nets-talks-sparked-joe-tsais-50m-social-justice-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/emotional-nets-talks-sparked-joe-tsais-50m-social-justice-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Emotional\u2019 Nets talks sparked Joe Tsai\u2019s $50M social justice fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Emotional\u2019 Nets talks sparked Joe Tsai\u2019s $50M social<\/a> justice fund<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Despite the economic havoc brought on by the coronavirus, Nets owner Joe Tsai and his wife Clara have committed millions to social justice. Why? After talks with his players \u2014 intense, raw, emotional talks \u2014 he couldn\u2019t not do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe background is the Brooklyn Nets and the NBA. Since the killing of George Floyd, the country\u2019s been thrown into kind of a turmoil. The teams and the team owners and players in the NBA have felt this very strongly,\u201d Tsai said in a Zoom with students<\/a> at Tsai CITY (Tsai Center for Innovational Thinking at Yale).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is [in] the NBA, we have a league where our elite players, our stars, 70 to 80 percent are black, and this is very, very personal to our players. And by extension, as we have our conversations with our players, I start to realize the issue of racial injustice is a deep-rooted problem with 400-plus years of history. Now, you can\u2019t solve [it] overnight; but you have to face it directly. You have to face it now. You have to have that conversation. You can\u2019t skirt it.\u201d<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s what Tsai has done.<\/p>\n

He and wife have vowed a $50 million Social Justice Fund for Brooklyn. The move was announced in August, but it was born out of some very emotional discussions with his Nets players over the past few months.<\/p>\n

While Tsai wasn\u2019t specific about exactly which Nets he spoke with, it\u2019s clear that among the topics that hit home were racial profiling when it comes to policing.<\/p>\n

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With unarmed blacks three times likelier to be killed by police than whites, that reality hits home for Nets players. And they brought it home for Tsai, who called diversity the foundation of excellence, as important as the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I see a policeman on the streets, I don\u2019t run away; there\u2019s no fear. But as I have conversations with our players and also some friends \u2014 people that we know who are black \u2014 they start to pour out. \u2026 It\u2019s a very, very emotional conversation,\u201d said Tsai, emotional at times during the chat uploaded Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been in a lot of these emotional conversations about the kind of life that they lead that\u2019s just different because certain people see other people by the color of their skin and not by what they do and what they accomplish.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why my wife and I started an initiative to say: We\u2019re not only going to put money resources behind a social justice program but also look inward and look at our own organization. Are we diverse enough? Are we doing everything we can to promote the social justice cause, especially the issue facing the black community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsai also spoke about how becoming the Nets owner prompted him to join Twitter to communicate with fans, and how watching Yale lacrosse \u2014 for whom he played \u2014 win the 2018 NCAA title spurred him to take over the team in the first place. The Alibaba co-founder had bought a minority stake, but accelerated his takeover.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe watershed moment was in 2018 when Yale lacrosse won the national championship. I went to the game<\/a> and it was one of those moments where I thought to myself that a goal that nobody thought would be obtainable was actually achieved maybe a couple of years ahead of time,\u201d said Tsai.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for me, I started to think how I want to structure my life, how to sort of re-plan my career or re-plan my life. I\u2019d already gotten to a stage of relative success and comfort, and decided it was time for me to slow down a little bit at my work, my full-time job and start focusing on my family, start focusing on my passion which is I wanted to get into sports a little more. After that I bought the Brooklyn Nets.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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