THE DEATH OF KOBE BYRANT AND THE DISPLAY OF HYPROCRTICAL SYMPATHY

On the 26th of January 2020, the black community and the world by extension was put into paramount tremor as ace basketballer Kobe Bean Bryant AKA Mamba alongside his youngest daughter Gianna and six others and the pilot were involved in a plane crash that cost them their lives.

I was at a listening party and spasmodically when I checked social media that evening, everyone kept talking about a particular ‘Bryant’. I still did not understand because I am not a basketball fan, never watched a Kobe game and even had no inkling to what he looked like until the day he died.





Isn’t it funny how you people can get to talk about your death than your whole existence?

But I definitely could relate to the viral jersey that bore his name that I saw donned on many people over the course of the years. No doubt he was a great and influential man.

Quite recently, no one had passed on in the black society that had wobbled everyone to the extent to which Kobe’s death did. Even the Grammy’s that held that day, deservedly deemed it fit to honor the late legend at the award show later that night.