Bill Plaschke: For LeBron James, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere … except in China
LOS ANGELES - The tweet from LeBron James was powerful, poignant and seemingly beyond all debate.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," he wrote on Jan. 15, 2018, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. on his holiday. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Yet on Monday, James gave the tweet a little tweak.
In tapping his inner mercenary, James revealed that even the sports world's leading social equality warrior has his limits.
Sure, he said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere ... except in China, because that's where he sells truckloads of jerseys and shoes.
Fine, he said, our lives begin to end the day we
