His very next sentence is a major issue also.
"Let’s not lose focus on what the problem truly is, and that’s that black lives still don’t matter in this country."
I can't come up with any other way to read that besides Jenkins dismissing the entire thing as irrelevant and thus makes you believe that his statements are more of your second way of interpreting than the first. They're both problems.
You can focus on both. You can't stand on a platform of injustice and then look the other way and even go as far as partially dismissing another injustice without your message being hollow going forward.
EDIT:
I don't see that next sentence as a major issue, myself. I think it's being blown out of proportion.
After really taking more time to chew on it...I think people are spinning this intentionally out of bad faith. I think he acknowledged the big wrong in the situation and said it was wrong pretty bluntly.
I think if you take a second, you can understand what he's saying when he says "focus on the problem truly is, black lives still don't matter..." Relative to all societal, identity-based issues in this country, I think it's hard to argue we aren't in the midst of the black population being front-and-center and aiding their treatment in the country.
Obviously incidents of antisemitism are still happening (which is awful), but there's been a controversy surrounding DeSean's posts that shouldn't really be a controversy...It went from DeSean is an antisemite to "Because he's black, he can get away with it. SEE THE DOUBLE STANDARD! CUZ DESEAN IS BLACK! BREES SHOULDN'T APOLOGIZE FOR THE FLAG!"
Like I think Malcolm was trying to say: The media (alotta white writers, mind you) are spinning this to be a racial double standard and bringing it back to race & the kneeling protests.
Basically what I'm saying is: I think Malcolm, at-best, didn't overly show outrageous support for members of the Jewish community. He certainly didn't agree with DeSean and showed support of those harmed. People took that lack of overt support the Jewish community/berating DeSean and twisted it to have the BLM movement discredited (as Malcolm has been a top athletic leader during the protests/kneeling) & now pit the two groups against each other in the public eye.
It's an extremely complicated situation and I wish Malcolm had made it easier and DID do some overt support of the Jewish community in that post, but now he's being painted as a greedy SOB/fake social justice warrior...I think that's what many people want: discredit BLM.
