
Via WaPo:
J.R. Smith, the Cleveland Cavaliers guard, openly wondered Wednesday morning about the message that his little girl would draw from the 2016 presidential election. The reactions were swift, and often foul.
Smith, who had campaigned for Hillary Clinton in Ohio along with teammate LeBron James, shared a photo of one of his two daughters at the White House and, much like CNN’s Van Jones, who said he and others were concerned with, “How do I explain this to my children?,” Smith poured his heart out after Donald Trump’s victory.
“How do you explain to this face what happen? You can be a educated women in your field an[d] not get the job because your a women or cause your black?” he wrote. “How do you say ‘go try your best’ even though it won’t be good enough. How do I even feel confident sending her on play dates knowing the kids family voted for the racist, sexist person an I don’t know how they will treat her when she’s gone. How? Seriously How? I understand let go and let God! But damn!”
His post had drawn more than 27,000 likes and 1,200-plus comments in two hours. Smith was called a racist, a “dumb [expletive]” and an “uneducated bigot,” among other things.
