when America didn’t want Black Athletes playing sports with White Athletes not too long ago. Sports Integration:
MLB 1945 Sec Football 1966
NBA 1950 NFL Fredrick “Fritz” Pollard was the first Black coach in 1921 Art Shell, first Black coach of the modern era NFL in 1989.
It’s so ironic that America is angry with Black Athletes for deciding not to play their respective sports because of the continuous oppressions, assaults and murders of Black people at the hands of the state,
NBA players are boycotting playoff games to take a stand against social injustice & police brutality.
What makes this moment even more poignant today: on this EXACT date four years ago, Colin Kaepernick was photographed sitting for the same reasons before an NFL preseason game.
Alleged cancelled man speaks about being cancelled at major political convention before millions of viewers. It’s just so tragic how this young man has been banished from the public eye.