John carlos raised his fist on the metal stand in 19 68. The most important part of the storyis not his life story, but our french no, it's like i tom wad i do, all coming together. I didn't want that part to get forgotten. We disidentimized ourselves as ungrateful athletes and we talked about this sort of ungrateful athlete again. But so much of that was a spiritual sequel...I don't want to tread too much on that again.
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.