No apology necessary.
I understand the logic behind your previous statement.
The other thing that sparked this idea was that I read how much the Blake family appreciated the contact they received from the Bucks and how much it helped them.
I'm just thinking that if pro athletes ( particularly those based in Wisconsin) went to the city it would probably be a positive for all involved. ( Including the athletes.)
Maybe it's not feasible, but that statement from Blake's father struck a chord in me.
I think it's all feasible and would be helpful and nice to see. I just in general don't think it's a good topic of conversation to talk about what people who are helping should do to help more. For example (not here) but I read lots of comments back when Davis made his huge contribution to the Children's Hospital about how he should have given even more since he makes lots of money and is playing so badly. And then I think it's doubly problematic when you add in the angle of suggesting to black people how they should go about helping promote the causes they are advocating. To give another bad example, this is almost exactly what Donald Sterling said about Magic Johnson.
I know that, very specifically it being you making these statements, it's not coming as subterfuge or deflection. But its also the exact type of comments that someone who wants to justify ignoring the message might make about the messenger. Its kind of a variant of the "what about black on black crime?" argument.
And to address specifically you saying these things, I think it's all good suggestions. But I'll make an analogy to working out or investing. It's my opinion that for those things, just doing anything is like 80% of the battle. If you go from doing nothing to whatever workout you wanna do however many times a week, you've made great progress. There are absolutely ways you go about optimizing your workout time to meet your goals. But just doing something is the massive first step, the rest is just finsihing the final touches. I feel the same about investing. If you are putting anything at all towards your retirement or towards some long-term savings, that's most of the job. You can learn a lot about what are the best investments to make, try to do day-trading, put lots of time and effort into really optimizing things. But just getting started is the major hurdle.
So I think you're talking about how the athletes and others getting involved could go about optimizing their involvement and contributions. That's certainly a worthy topic that could get as deep as anyone wants to go. But I think you're talking about how to optimize effort. Them doing anything at all is the major first step, and that's the thing that I think is of the most importance and should be applauded.