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LeBron James has only been on Twitter just a few months and already has more than 900,000 followers. Of course, with that many followers and a lot of people not liking King James at the moment, he's going to have his fair share of backlash. On Tuesday, he decided to share some of that backlash:"Today is Hater Day. Everyone please let them get their 2 mins of fame and light! I Love You Haters. Continue to make me proud of u guys! LOL"
He then retweeted a couple of messages that he's received:
"u r a big nosed big lipped bug eyed [racial slur]," wrote one follower. "ur greedy, u try to hide ur ghettoness."
Another follower wrote:
"no one wants to hear u speak. Why dont u speak by laying ur head under a moving car"
"hey good game last night, too bad you're a fraud, B***," wrote yet another follower.
James seemed to take all the hate in stride, not putting much stock in to the people sending him messages:
"U see world how people feel!" James responded. "Just use it as extra motivation in whatever u do best! No one can stop your dreams from becoming reality!"
In an interview with the Palm Beach Post, LeBron said that he just wanted to expose it so everybody could "see what type of words are said toward me and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed or roses and it's not."
'Bron's teammate Chris Bosh, who was a really active Twitter user, stopped going on the site because of all the negativity.