N dave: I think the point that i've been thinking about, n dave, you certainly touch on this is the kind of youth driven, youthfulness and even more radical posture of the 20 20 uprisings. And what it resulted in was they were like, we have a set of skills now that we didn't have before. Now, where this is all going to go going forward, is really going to be dependent on the movement. But any movement, you know, is fortified by just a backbone of people who are going to be active.
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.