We, as Hong Kongers and LIHKG users, would like to express our most profound regret for a small number of LIHKG users using abusive, racially charged language against LeBron James as an ethnic minority. Such violations of ethnic equality should be heavily condemned to uphold the values of racial justice.
We would like to clarify that the vast majority of us judge LeBron James' response to Daryl Morey's tweet based on his response and attitude alone, but not ethnicity or colour of his skin. Thus, those racist comments against LeBron James shall and will never represent the population of Hong Kongers and LIHKG users.
The concept of Hong Kongers is not bound by religion, race and ethnicity, whoever upholds the core values of Hong Kong (freedom, liberty & democracy) and have compassion for our city can be deemed as a true Hong Konger regardless of race and ethnicity. In fact, many of our bravest freedom fighters and supporters are Southern Asians or Eastern Asians, some of them are immigrants from other provinces of China, and some of them are political refugees from other countries as well. Their bravery in pursuing and supporting freedom for the future generations of Hong Kongers is widely praised by Hong Kongers just like any other freedom fighters who contributed to this crusade.
We firmly believe that human dignity should be respected regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion, this is why we put up this social movement against the invasion of totalitarianism in Hong Kong and the horrifying human conditions in China. We would stand in solidarity with the Tibetans, Uyghur Muslims, oppressed Christians, any other persecuted ethnic minorities and all political dissidents in China in the pursuant of universal values stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.