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NBA’ Danny Green Post ‘LOL’ Selfie at Berlin Holocaust Memorial

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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October 10, 2014, 11 AM ET

San Antonio Spurs guard Danny Green posted on Twitter a selfie at the Berlin Holocaust memorial along with the caption “LOL” [laughing out loud] in the tweet, “You know I had to do it one time lol #Holocaust.”

That was the funniest line since someone said that America has gotten past its racist past by choosing a black president to clean up the mess.

After Green laughed all by himself at his selfie, he started reading the complaints and quickly deleted the picture and posted apologies in four tweets:

“Yes, mistakes do happen,”

“I want to sincerely apologize for the insensitivity of my post!

“I have great respect n understanding for this country's history n wanted to continue chronicling my experience in Berlin.

"But showed poor judgement...sorry once again."

Poor judgment?

Did he really even judge at all? Did he even consider the insensitivity of laughing at the Holocaust memorial for 6 million Jews gassed and butchered by the Nazis?

Would it have been “poor judgment” if some white basketball player took a selfie at a memorial for Martin Luther King with a caption “LOL My dream came true. He's dead.”?

Green later changed the caption to read, "A lot of history here, more than you could imagine...very sad/tragic things happened #holocaust #berlin."

Indeed, sad and tragic things are happening today. People like Danny Green are LOL at memories of the Holocaust.

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