Sa: I want to talk about the example of rodney axon junior, who's a football player at ohio's brunswick high schol. You see, he was the first athlete in the united states, following colin capernick, to take the nee for the anthem. Sa: He really is a lived experience. It's a lived e sperience remarked. And when you have a rodny axon say, look, something is not right here, but it would send people into paroxysms of rage and depoliticised towns. O i learned from friends of ours that i'd never been to one of those texas towns where a whole
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.