After calling for his athletic peers to step there activism up in the wake of multiple police-involved shootings and preceding protests, Knicks star Carmelo Anthony is taking his own steps forward.
Anthony is organizing a closed meeting to discuss the recent events and surrounding issues affecting local communities. “You have to keep the conversation going and dialogue going,” Anthony explained in reference to said issues on 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.”
The meeting will reportedly include politicians, community leaders, athletes, and other celebrities, and is set to take place on Monday in Los Angeles.
Anthony plans on keeping the meeting private and closed off from the media so that participants can comfortably and effectively converse. “What I’m doing now is trying to lay the foundation down and just trying to take advantage of this platform that we have,” he said. “Hopefully everybody in their own individual rights branch out and start doing things on their own.”
As for any backlash that may be coming Anthony’s way for hosting the meeting, he isn’t at all concerned. “I don’t think nobody can tell me [not to do it]Â at this point,” he said when asked. “I won’t listen to anybody that tells me I shouldn’t do this or shouldn’t do that.”
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