Carmelo Anthony has really done a whole lot to step up and ask his fellow athletes, basketball and every other sport, to step up with him and try to introduce change to the country.
With all the turmoil involving unarmed people being gunned down, police being killed and constant protesting, Carmelo has felt the need for action and he knows that with help, he and his counterparts can help. Which is why Melo, fellow athletes, community leaders and politicians are going to have a closed meeting in Los Angeles on Monday. No press.
“You have to keep the conversation going and dialogue going,” Anthony said Thursday at a Team USA workout in Las Vegas. “If you don’t, then you just become another tragedy that happens that everybody forgot about.“
“We want to get youth. We want to get kids. We want to get adults. We want to get officers. We want to get teachers,” Anthony said. “We want to get community leaders, athletes, everybody, having this conversation and talking on both sides, hearing each other out. It’s part of continuing what I started off.
“The problem is, people don’t have answers. I think everybody is searching for answers. People are searching for what to do and how to do it. We’re not going to find answers overnight. It’s not going to happen.“
This is a real sensitive subject for everybody involved, I hope that they come out of this with some answers. If not at least some understanding, because amidst all this talking there’s still some ignorance. People that understand one side of the coin but pay no mind when it comes to the other side. That’s not right, but as long as the conversation continues, action will come sooner rather than later.
