Sam Dekker and Bronson Koenig's white culture debate ends with surprise twist

Two former University of Wisconsin teammates turned professional basketball players engaged in a Twitter debate about white culture that devolved into one of white pride and ultimately a beef between two followers, one of whom purchased the other a plane ticket so they could physically fight.

The debate began here, we think, with former Badgers guard and current G League player Bronson Koenig, who has been a vocal advocate for Native Americans as a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation:

The article Koenig shared was titled “White People Have No Culture” and written by Lorena Wallace for an online publication called Terra Incognita. It follows the writer’s journey to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock Indiana Reservation in 2016 and her realization that the culture of “white people” is not one steeped in familial traditions but in “colonization,” “genocide” and “taking.”

“The culture of white people is the culture of death,” she wrote. “It is a culture of endless war, desensitization to human suffering, and the upholding of a brutal individualism fueled by greed. It is a deep, dark hole of grief and of loss. We don’t even know what we lost. We don’t know our ancestors. We don’t have stories of creation and hope and family; only stories of destruction and genocide. Our coming of age ceremony is a school shooting. Our song is a ballad about rockets and explosions. Our elders die alone surrounded by their stories of family members who no longer visit them. Our cities were built by the blood of slaves, on top of the graves of native people.”