Steve Kerr — “as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism” — speaks out against Donald Trump’s recent executive order pic.twitter.com/YbCH2sn0hw
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 30, 2017
(Via Anthony Slater)
In his tenure as Warriors head coach, Steve Kerr has never shied away from speaking out on major issues affecting the United States. After Sunday’s 113-111 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, Kerr blasted President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Kerr has a unique perspective on global terrorism. His father, Malcolm, was assassinated by the Islamic Jihad while serving as the president of the American University of Beirut in 1984.
Here’s a full transcript of Kerr’s comments, courtesy of KNBR Warriors insider Anthony Slater:
Kerr: I would just say — as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism — having lost my father, if we’re trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, by really going against the principles of what our country is about, and creating fear, it’s the wrong way to go about it. If anything, we could be breeding anger and terror, so I’m completely against what’s happening.
It’s shocking. It’s a horrible idea, and I feel for all of the people who are affected, the families that are being torn apart, and I worry in the big picture what this means to the security of the world. It’s going about it completely opposite. You want to solve terror, you want to solve crime, this is not the way to do it.
