Kyrie Irving’s Anti-Semitism mess is bigger than him. It’s a symptom of what ails America

What embarrasses the NBA and has superstar Kyrie Irving suspended goes deeply beyond basketball or one man. Irving’s is just the latest face symptomatic of what has become of this country and made even its name sadly ironic: the United States of America. If only. We have not been this malignantly divided since the Civil War of the 1860s. Blatant lies and misinformation. The hatred to spread that. The gullibility to believe what fits your own bigotry. And very public, prominent voices enabling all of the anger and prejudice once hidden, voices all but calling it to step into the light and rise ...