Now, THAT'S What a Brave Athlete Looks Like

He is Enes Kanter, a Turkish-born NBA player (Celtics), who has publicly criticized China's Human Rights abuses. Click here for a variety of links to news about him (from Bing).

In addition to personally calling out Xi and China's treatment of the Tibetan people, he did not fail to criticize Ergodan, the leader of Turkey.

Naturally, China responded as they always do, blocking the Chinese people from accessing the media coverage of his action, and blocking the Celtics' NBA games in China (thereby depriving the team from getting their share of the loot from the NBA agreement with China).

That general region of Europe (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Turkey) has contributed most of the non-POC players on professional basketball teams. I say non-POC, although many of them are fairly swarthy, because their heritage is generally European/Asia Minor.

That heritage group includes some unusually tall people (as I understand it, they may have some DNA in common with the also-tall Afghanis). Melania Trump is from that region, too.

Many of them have lived in countries with a history of repressive leadership, and are not inclined to fall in line with Leftist groupthink.

Can't wait to see him on the cover of Sports Illustrated!

/sarc