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 in African American history.
“This whole fairy tale about this postracial utopia that (President) Obama supposedly created is all bull,” West said after shootaround Wednesday.