LeBron James wears a safety pin on the cover of S.I. What's the significance?

[Yavin4]

Since last month's presidential election, the safety pin has become a symbol of solidarity with those Americans who fear they'll be disenfranchised by a Donald Trump presidency. The pin is intended to show that the wearer is a safe person to turn to.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18268653/cleveland-cavaliers-star-lebron-james-wears-safety-pin-sports-illustrated-cover

LeBron is a better human than Jordan who did jack shit when Jesse Helms was Senator from NC.

--On Edit--
My original post got my racist Southern White Senators mixed up. I meant Jesse Helms, not Strom Thurman. Racist White people all look alike to me.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Ummmm, Strom Thurmond was from South Carolina...... originally from the 7th ring of hell. nt

[Yavin4]

3. Thanks. I meant Jesse Helms.

White racist Senators should start wearing numbers so that I can tell them apart.

[Warpy]

2. Hey, NC was smarter than to keep an old fossil like Thurman in office

He was propped up by the good people of SC.

NC voted for Jesse Helms, instead.

The safety pin fashion statement is a great one. If anything, it'll give you an option when the elastic in your underwear gives up the ghost entirely. In the meantime, I don't think it's particularly wise to go around self identifying, especially in red, red states.

[Yavin4]

4. I fixed it.

Racist White people all look alike to me.

[Warpy]

5. Me, too! They're best identified by the phrase

"I'm not a racist, but..." after which they keep on talking and proving they're stone bigots.

[MADem]

6. LeBron is maturing, and good for him. He's doing the right thing. nt

[alfredo]

7. Solidarity with the oppressed. Made popular by Brexit

[ananda]

8. I wear my safety pin every day.

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[spike jones]

9. The cultural history of the safety pin as I remember.

In the early seventies, I used safety pins to hold diapers on my children.
In late seventies with the rise of Punk, the safety pin was often used as a body piercing decoration. It may have been that other items were not available at that time.

In the late eighties and early nineties, in Seattle at least, the safety pin was worn by the Grungers and Heads to indicate that they were Herb friendly, and were used to clean the small pot pipes that came into use. I wore one for years for that purpose. Of course, working in a professional office, I wore it with the main body of it inside my shirt pocket with just a silver shaft showing on the outside.

Today I wear one to indicate to people that, as my granddaughter said, I am not an asshole. It is important for everybody to smile and be friendly to every person that may be the subject to abuse by the people who are assholes. Not just when they are being abused, but every time you meet them. Let them know that they are surrounded by loving people who care.

Of course, today I wear it on the outside and am proud that the pointy end is black with weed residue.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. National campaign. I wear one too. It says, I'm a safe

person who will not harm you based on your race, color, sex, or religion.