Ex-NBA player Shirley issues ‘reaction’ to Haiti column backlash

Former NBA baller Paul Shirley hasn’t apologized for his column on Haiti — the one in which he asks Haitians to wear a condom, if it’s not too much trouble, and begs the question “Shouldn’t much of the responsibility for the disaster lie with the victims of that disaster?”

This has proved an unpopular stance — one that just cost Shirley his freelance gig with ESPN.

Shirley has instead issued “a reaction” in which he says his “goal was to question the psychology of donating, the way we react to natural disasters and the nature of responsibility leading up to and immediately after those disasters.”

Yes, let us ponder the “psychology of donating” while people are buried under rubble.