In the 1970s, two Black American basketball players introduced multiculturalism to Finland, and their sons went on to launch a battle for equality. Shawn Huff and Ervin Latimer Jr. are both sons of Black American basketball players, and grew up in Finland. For their fathers, basketball has been a way out of poverty. The racism that thrived both in the US and Finland when they were young awakened political thoughts in them. Each of their sons has, in his own way, translated these thoughts into action in the fields of sports, culture and politics.