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Live Interview: How 'The Kaepernick Effect' Revealed Reactionary Forces in Youth Sports. with Dave Zirin

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What's Happening in the Sports World?

Wen: The idea of an athlete feeling like they don't have a place to be political in the context of the sports world, i don't know how they're going to wind that backad. They feel like this is their space. And if they want to say something about the world, particularly if they're a black udent in a predominantly white space, they's going to do it. Wen: To me, what's happening in the sports world is really a microcosm of the society,. because i were so clearly headed on a collision between these fossils who are fighting for white minority rule, and these young people more demographically diverse and less tolerant of intolerance than any

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