Mark Cuban on Josh Howard (updated)

Josh realizes his comments were wrong, he understands why people are upset. He knows he has made a mistake, has apologized and will work with us.

Fuck you, Cuban. There was nothing wrong with Josh's comments, and he shouldn't apologize. Its just a fucking song, and someone refusing to mindlessly respect nationalistic symbols is actually refreshing. And there are a million tragic reasons why black people especially wouldn't be swelling with American pride. But I guess the uppity negro must be silenced.

update: In an email, Cuban told me that Howard was just messing around with friends and wasn't being serious. He seemed to imply that if Howard had meant those comments to express a serious political opinion, he'd be supportive of him. Since he wasn't serious, his "mistake" was saying something highly inflammatory without thinking about it. This is the same point Abbott made to me in emails as well. I think it might be worth going back and looking at what they said and seeing if they criticized the message itself, which I think they did. Hopefully they're backtracking on that. Too tired now to think more about it, but figured I ought to make that update since I've come down pretty hard on these guys.