but i wish it would rain i can remember kareem referring to arthur ashe as arthur ash. he was our tennis hero but that s like o.j. can play football. that conjured up a whole image. internationalism. nice guy. crosses over. in the 60s i was much more impressionable. i had some friends who used to try to get me about civil rights issues put them on a shelf or down play their role because the tradeoff would be not doing so well on the tennis court. and if you every in the middle in those days if you re a moderate it s the same thing as being an uncle tom. at the time i don t really think that he wanted to be an
strange but i wish it would rain i can remember kareem referring to arthur ashe as arthur ass. arthur just wasn t aggressive enough with his stand on racism in tennis. he was our tennis hero but that s like o.j. can play football. he wasn t my hero. arthur ashe, that conjured up a whole image. internationalism. nice guy. crosses over. in the 60s i was much more impressionable. i had some friends who used to try to get me about social issues or civil rice matters, put them on a shelf or downplay their role because the trade-off would be not doing so well on the tennis court. and if you re in the middle in those days, if you re a moderate, it was the same thing
that we re family with or is it more of just a platform where you ll see these sorts of views from the president be put out there for his followers. these are all open questions still. so i think certainly, they re hoping that everybody sits tight and stays tuned and is champing at the bit to get on board in six weeks time. we ll see if that s the case or if people get impatient waiting. i ll turn to breaking news now. it has to do with russia and ukraine. president joe biden faces one of the most consequences matters of his presidency. the potential military conflict between ukraine and russia. do his decisions so far seem to have the support of congress and more importantly, the american people? yes. i mean, look. the republican party, there is actually a broader coalition of folks trying to be consistent around the party s historic internationalism and defensive organizations like nato.
he topples ukraine s democratically elected government in 2014 and installs a rampantly anti-russian one. this is the kind of stuff david frum and bill kristol love, although they never participate in any of the action. zero consequences. she was a player in the russia gate scandal and is currently serving under biden and now these people are trying to browbeat americans into another war but they have lives and blot on their hands for ukraine, afghanistan, iraq, and worse, their legacy, people like frum, crystal, nuland, their legacy is civilian deaths, troop deaths, veteran suicides, destabilized countries, destroyed cultures. there liberal internationalism got us into this mess and not one more person should die but
you re potentially asking people to put themselves in harm s way, potentially also break british laws about fighting wars overseas. how do you respond to that? first of all, i m not necessarily asking people to go. i m simply saying there is the opportunity to go. the president of ukraine has formally called for international volunteers from around the world and if there are brits women and men, who wish to support ukrainian people in their time of need just like, by the way, the american eagles, the americans thatjoined the british army, the raf, when we were being attacked during the second world war. well, what about the brits and americans and others who joined the fight against the fascists in spain george orwell included? there is a time for internationalism, there is a time where people can stand up and fight for what they believe in. macer thinks thousands of britons may sign up, but uk ministers have also said there are ways of helping ukraine other than heading to an in