where john kcarlos and tommy smith raised their fists. using their ability to draw increase attention to the issues of the moment. the miami heat in the wake of george zimmerman s acquittal. clippers players after the racist remarks of team owner don sterling. the st. louis rams after the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson. after the nonindictment of officers involved in the shochog death of eric garner. when dozens of football players refused to play and forced the resignation of the school s chancellor. and in this new generation, no player has more fully embodied this new engagement with the politics of inequality than king lebron james.
racial go the, cha moment like a don sterling moment where we can ignore anything that increases racial inequality or any of the ways in which certain discourses become cowords for race. what we re looking for is did you say the n word. did you talk to the klan. those are problematic but not what constitutes racism and inequality. one thing i haven t heard a lot from democrats but i suspect we may be hearing more when congress gets back from the break is the voting rights act is one of those items that just seems like it could be the kind of thing that if someone wanted to take a claim to moving this in a positive direction that they would call up the republican from wisconsin who is the leader on that issue, and has been for a very long time. and i think that would be the
racial discourse emerged in the nba, when part of what happened was these young men looking up and saying, oh, wait a minute, there may be some racism going on with our owners in the case of don sterling and the l.a. clippers, that that provided a kind of radicalizing, politicizing moment for them so they could connect this to the larger movements. what do you see as being the best case scenario to come out of this? best case scenario is we really do enup with a different kind of policing, a move away from aggressive militarized policing that treats communities as though they are enemies in a combat zone and towards instead an identity and an understanding of policing that is really about communities being served so that if communities are dealing with issues of poverty, if they re dealing with issues of crime, that the police are actually engaging with them to fight those issues instead of fighting those individuals. we saw in ferguson some news saying they re going to go back to
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