The Backlash to Garfield

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The beaumont bulls were a youth football team in Texas. They started asking provocative questions about race and police violence. When coach capernick took a knee, the response was literally to cancel all of their games. This is what we should do as society that we've integrated this into our sports," says John Sutter.

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.