David West reads Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche, runs a charity to help impoverished youths and sits on the advisory board for a renewable energy company.
So it’s no surprise that late Tuesday night, when news surfaced that Donald Trump would be the 45th president of the United States, the Warriors power forward followed closely. It was a sobering development for a player who is well schooled on African American history.
“This whole fairy tale about this whole post-racial utopia that Obama supposedly created is all bull,” West said after shootaround Wednesday. “That’s the bottom line. When you look at what the results say from last night, this nation has not moved a thread in terms of its ideals.