Kobe Bryant Backlash: Called 'Confused,' 'Cornball,' 'Jerk' After Refusing To Back Trayvon Martin

DANIEL J. FLYNN breitbart.com Kobe Bryant has his own opinion. Some people don’t like it—the opinion and the fact that it’s his own. The injured Los Angeles Laker told the New Yorker’s Ben McGrath that the Miami Heat collectively taking Trayvon Martin’s side in the George Zimmerman case represented a reflexive racial reaction. The team posed for a provocative picture in hoodies in homage to the slain Florida teenager two years ago. “I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American,” Bryant told the magazine. “That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well… then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.” to read more: breitbart.com