The enafel is segregated between those of us whose bodies get destroyed and who are gone every three years, and the people that own the franchises. There are no black owners. And this process of viewing it as segregated is also, i think, goes into understanding it as a public act of racial disciplining. So when you have someone like colin capernick, yes, he's taking a knee against police violence and racial inequity, but it's actually something, it hits at something much deeper.
In this recording of a Live Interview for Patrons from 9/22, we speak with The Nation sports editor Dave Zirin about his new book, The Kaepernick Effect, and how a series of protests in youth sports, namely among black youth, set off firestorms and backlash in dozens of small towns throughout the country. And what the "leave politics out of sports" ethos says about the evergreen importance of racial disciplining in sports media.