taina racist stereotypes dr seuss's est said the books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong it made the decision after months of consultation with teachers and other experts there was a rush to buy the books off the announcements with the titles rocketing up the amazon bestseller lists it's. all over again the headlines on al-jazeera we're hearing reports 2 people have been killed at an antique protest the me and maher 2nd largest city of mandalay local media say police backed by soldiers have been trying to break up a demonstration there protesters across the country are still defying an escalating crackdown to demand an end to the military takeover more than 20 people have been killed during weeks of protests most of them in the past week and scott hi there has more from bangkok some local media sources have been reporting that 2

protesters were killed it appears to be from live fire we're getting earlier in the day reports of the fire being used in mandalay on protesters there and they say it sounded as though they were trying to use live fire to disperse them and then now later in the day we're hearing that 2 protesters this again from local media and from witnesses saying that to the protesters there died again this is something that's not confirmed by doctors or officials yet but this is how word normally at these protests as you can see one once things really escalate and get violent it's quite chaotic that says charges against me and mars deposed leaders continue to mount the house the president would men has now been charged with breaching the constitution which is punishable by up to 3 years in prison he was arrested along with the democratically elected head of government thanks on suchi who's also facing several charges. in iraq a military facility that is also used by u.s. forces has come under attack multiple rockets have landed on the eye in an assad

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its christian population continues to do window and security issues plague the country. can the pope bring hope to those who see him as an authority. i have the arcadia watching the screen today we're looking at athletes and activism he's an example. of somebody who got a. lot of her i want out. of .

here. in just a. little to hurt. her up to the glitter of black lives matter. so that was an n.b.a. video released in june of this year is showing support for the black. and social justice movements we're talking about the power of athletes and activism and using that platforms i know you've got opinions you can jumping to the cheap comment section and be part of this discussion let me introduce the stream very own dream team no pressure gas that day say hello to everyone who you. oh hey my name is

dave zirin on the sports editor at the nation magazine and i've written a bunch of books about the politics of sports nice to have you welcome back to the stream hello max oh tell everybody he wanted you an introduction. hello everyone my name is max well piers i'm an athlete i am an influencer and i play for the harlem globetrotters thanks for joining us next hour and then tell introduce yourself hello everyone my name is chantelle lavender i'm with the indiana fever is the debbie and the 18 the women's national basketball association and i am an activist and i am happy to be here. until i'm just looking at the denver n.b.a. and they are out there now all with using app tally using our phone if you could pick one moment in the last couple of months of athletes using that platform for activism what was the moment that stuck out to you that we. were definitely the

entire initiative that the debbie n.b.a. has pushed forward with say her they say her name campaign and where brianna taylor's name on the back of their jerseys has been huge sports is one of the biggest platforms i think you can use force for activism because people watch it and people want to see it on t.v. and when you see at least taken a stand people take notice people and i think that that's been the largest the biggest thing i've seen since cabernet in the one sitting out because of the recent killing there jacob lake. next it was a moment familia where i just went gulp i cannot believe they did this and that was in the n.f.l. players came out and said. we've the pull of black ice not a movement just so you don't have to being so controversial have to the taken me became a political discussion what was the moment for you where you just said this is

extraordinary in the world of sports today. for me it was when the n.b.a. teams decided not to play their games and seeing the impact of that and how quickly it spreads who other leagues i mean the m.b.a. the m.l.s. a few other leagues and other teams followed suit within 24 hours so to see the impact and and the silence that it brought so many people were looking forward to watching sports games but when it's an honor t.v. and there's no sports and they're seeing why these players aren't playing it really forces us to think about the injustices that they're speaking up about them e and and yeah yeah i mean i really have to agree with what maxwell said because i think what happened a couple of weeks ago in the n.b.a. it's a w n.b.a. major league baseball major league soccer the national hockey league naomi osaka in tennis when all of these folks in quick order in

a matter of hours decided that they were going to go on strike for black lives it was such a remarkable moment because it is an equal in sports history we're dealing with history without a compass we've never seen athletes step up to this degree and we've certainly never seen them use their labor power to say that racism needs to be challenged. and that's right that happened because so many different sports happened because jacob blake who who thankfully is not dead was shot by the police in the back and that video went viral and then after that when we're not playing we can't. play i want to share with you shannon ryan stuart she's a sports reporter at the chicago tribune and she let me dave says this is something that very different that's happening with sports and athletes let's take a look usually when we think about athlete protests we're thinking about individuals maybe muhammad ali or tommy smith and john carlos raising their fists at a 960 olympics contest really taking any and what's different about today's protests

is we're seeing across different leagues different sports different races genders it's really been a collective push and that's i think through history when we've seen the most changes when there's been a united front from athletes right now you're seeing an be a has demanded arenas be used for polling sites. mississippi athletes helped me push for change to change their state and to get rid of a confederate symbol whether it becomes a tipping point or not really depends on how much they can keep this momentum going and remain united i also want to show he since thoughts from the cheap comments and some people are upset. using a platform gentile and maxwell to camilla says the only thing you are doing is destroying the sport and the league gentlemen take the best. that's very

interesting because when you have world issues you need to focus on them and being a black woman being a part of sports we are we make up a large percentage of the sporting community especially in that people and i feel like if we're not being respected how are we able to get out on the court and play a game and that's the part that frustrates me and gets me a little rowdy is because you have to respect us as a human being 1st we are people we do we play this sport but as a people we have to be respected and if you can come to a game and shearers on one and you should be able to respect us you can go home. with a guy says max i'm unfastening to buy up what you want is going to be what you got thank you for being on the shop just because someone knows how to hoop it doesn't mean that he's all her opinion is of any the how you. wow. first of all it's this important to understand that

whatever whatever job you have that say you're a politician who's interested in sports. you know everyone is entitled to their own level of opinion or intellect on things that they are not a professional in that that's 1st and foremost and then secondly. i am going just like all of the other athletes i am going to continue to use my platform that i have to speak on issues that i had direct ties and direct connections to as well as my family members and the members in my community just like. if you can come to a game and support me as an athlete then you should be able to support and respect me as the human behind the jurors because we are human beings 1st and athletes 2nd no matter how the way you want to look at.

and you just leave the ignorance of those statements with all due respect coming from the internet are really overpowering when people say that they don't want sports and politics to mix what they're really saying is they don't want sports in a certain kind of politics to mix they have no problem with politics in sports when we're talking about nationalism when we're talking about celebrating the military hack when we're talking about celebrating the police many teams do these celebrations of law enforcement knights in war or whatnot but when it comes to the athletes themselves trying to use the platform that they have built that they have earned to speak out about their lives then all of a sudden the hammer comes down and there is i would argue s. of a seriously racist undertone or sometimes overtone to this statement which is basically shut up and play which is basically get out there and entertain me and i don't want

to hear what you have to say and it's amazing that in 2020 we're still wrestling with what was said in 1968 when tommie smith and john carlos raised their fists one of their slogans at in the for the $68.00 olympics was they said why should we run in mexico city only to crawl home which is still what animates i think the athletic protests today why should we be loved with our uniforms on but then disdained when the uniform is off. let me just show you naomi a stack as she won the u.s. open on september the 12th and these images people who are waiting every day what mosque is she going to have a lot and you can see and she is wearing the mass of people who met a violent and because of police brutality every day she had a black eyes mats and movement mosque on and then at the end of the u.s. open when she won it this is what she told the commentator who asked her about the

months you said from the beginning you had 7 matches 7 masks 7 day what was the message you wanted to send mail to tom or what was the message that you got was more the question or feeling the point is to make people start talking what we most 'd gratified about the awareness that you raised on i mean for me where i didn't fight of the bubble so i'm not really sure what's really going on in the outside world all i can tell is what's going on on social media and for me i feel like you know the more retreats it gets or acts so when but you know when more people talk about it gentile what's it like being a female athlete seeing other doesn't even match being an athlete seeing other athletes all working together to the same and when you still naomi do you that maxwell i know you tweeted out namely success on your twitter account as well gentle fest that's what you guessed it. well it's phenomenal and she's on one of

the biggest stages that she can ask for in this world community in to see her speaking out unless people know the seriousness of what's going on in the world and she said something that was very interesting to me she said she want people to talk and i feel like i would i would kind of tweet that in a sense being with being in 2020 and this is about action it's about physically going out and physically doing something and i think that there has been a generational shift with this generation and we're tired and we're not going to deal with it and she knows the people that she's around and i love her response when she said what did you get out of it and that's in me what's huge is because it's the it's our friends that we need to step up it's the people that are around or playing with our our teammates that are not black or teammate that that love us every day when we put on that jersey and compete with them but it's about what they think it's about what they feel if they can hear us cry out and speak out about it

and go home and be with a racist family member that's not the message of that being clear and i love that she mentioned that it's about how the world she is not an african-american people that are not being oppressed how they respond. to feeds why absolutely for a while you know it's it's extremely admirable how. naomi has spoken up and really how the w. m.b.a. had been leaders in this movement i mean when you think about women in sports they deal with a whole nother layer of adversity they have to deal with massaging they have to deal with hyper masculinity people constantly telling them that they shouldn't be playing the sport which is just completely blasphemous so there's so many additional things that they have to encounter and deal with outside of being especially women of color in sports so i really do it's at my head off to them and

i am and i am trying extremely hard to match that energy and be in support even when support there can be scarce sometimes do you have any. decent mohammed went to her and how much can spoil strange racism in america. well i keep when i hear that question i think about what dr martin luther king said about jackie robinson who called him a sit in or before sit ins freedom rider before freedom rides jackie robinson integrates major league baseball in 1947 almost a full decade before the flowering of the monk army bus boycott and the civil rights movement in the south a sit in or before sit ins a freedom rider before freedom rides often times sports is like a weather vane in our society and it tells us which way the wind is blowing and scarcer enough right now what we're seeing is the wind blowing towards justice the

wind is blowing toward some sort of reckoning with the history of racism not just in the united states but throughout the world this is a global movement and i think what you're seeing it with so incredible about this is that what it does is it punctures privilege because it's very easy to be a white person in the united states or i guess anywhere throughout the world and not have to confront the reality of what it means to be black not have to confront the reality of what it means to be an indigenous person and when you have sports athletes when you have them speaking out about these issues it punctures that privileged it severs that segregation and it forces people to really confront the realities that people i mean that's what naomi osaka was doing she was saying look if you're a tennis fan you might have the luxury of not knowing who alijah mclane is but i'm going to put that name in front of you you are going to know who lives in mclean is and that's powerful but that's also why athletes i would argue are policed so heavily by the reactionary powers that be because they don't want them using that

power precisely because they understand how powerful it is. i want to share a few athletes jonjo and maxwell some really supportive comments these ones this time coming from twitter some thoughts about athletes and activism citizens speak out that's democracy for you and no one cement just assistantship at the locker room door dogs as the better question is not why athletes use food but why should they be to night an activist role in whatever they believe in and then actually just going to jump across mats well some of that you tweeted out in a story that reminds us that there is racism effete way and in sports and in the sports well so t.v. host and banana at. the harlem globetrotter what happened to me why is it relevant to what i speaking about today. so i was given an interview about an upcoming

game and i was showing a few tricks with a basketball when one of the reporters were sued and one of the news anchors pulled out a tangerine from his pocket and threw it to me so i caught him very confused returned it to him and then he then threw it to someone off camera who threw the tangerine at me for a 2nd time this time i didn't catch it and then shortly after that a weight woman behind the camera threw a banana at me this is all happening on live television and so my initial reaction i caught them and then extremely stunned shocked i didn't know how to even begin to unpack what was actually a happening so then i left there immediately and my 1st thought was i need to get a copy of this video so i got a copy of the video and i debated on whether or not i wanted to go public with it for a while but i knew that i still had a job to do and i didn't want to ruffle the feathers of my job. so i try my best to

suppress it and then briana taylor motto or george floyd all of these things reignited the flame that had been applied at the time of this experience and that's when i knew that ok it's i have to speak up about this so i decided to go public with the story mainly to use it as a teachable moment for everyone who came across the experience for me i learned the value in using my platform and my voice and the power that i truly have. it empowers other people who experience mike regressions on a daily basis to voice their experiences and not be quiet about it and it also shows that you know we need to in order to create real change we're going to have to figure out how to take full accountability for the things that we do and

learn from them. these micro aggressions have a shoe mongoose impact on us and may seem sorrow boy any person who experiences my progress on a daily basis can tell you the actual and true weight of what these companies do they have i would put you in on a couple things that happened they things happened so the n.f.l. was sort of think you know something about the contaminant thing and not so many words the celtics for instance of the t.m.i. not to celtics unveil a $25000000.00 a 10 year plan to fight racial injustice and you could be cynical because this isn't just happened in the last few months and the mood last year was not quite this story the new tone we've entered the era of branding folk black and 9 maybe suggesting that this isn't truly real or that maybe teams in a new don't have any option but to go along with it because what are they going to say no you can't mean right now how would they say to date exactly i mean we just

have to remember that these are multi-billion dollar corporations and they know which way the wind is blowing and they know that they have a very restive players so the n.f.l. for example they do not want their players to go out on strike like the n.b.a. the n.b.a. major league baseball except for a because they make billions of dollars off of television deals so they're trying to figure out ways to make sure that their players are appeased so they're putting forward these initiatives but for a lot of the players that's not enough and that's what's so real in all of this so there's all this fluff there's a lot of branding there's you know putting things like end racism in the end zones and assistant coaches wearing t. shirts that say it starts with us but the players themselves have their own independent line their own independent analysis of what's happening so a lot of teams for example did not go out for this kind of stage national anthem where they also played the black national anthem as it's known lift every voice and

sing they stayed in the locker room and the miami dolphins. we don't want to be part of the propaganda we don't want to be part of the fluff and what's so interesting about it is that what the n.f.l. is doing in particular is they're putting out all these statements for racial justice initiatives but if you look at the one word they're not using and the players are acutely aware of this the one where they're not using is police you know they're keeping that out of the picture because they don't want to offend that they're scared i would argue scared of law enforcement scared of the police unions in this country and so their kids staying off actually addressing what the players want to address and frankly what the nation wants to address the nation that's been in the streets for the largest demonstrations in the history of the united states and that's police reform and that's the part that i have an issue with sometimes is the money and it was mentioned also that i have a job to do or it's something that i don't want to lose my job or are going to make sure i'm saying it in a nice way and i think that that's where athletes have to get to where that we know

that it's not about oh hey we have to make sure we don't include police officers not to us that then i know one time in the w b a we had a team that was boycotting against minnesota wins with boycott and against the police and the police officers left the game because we were making a stand and saying hey we're tired of the police brutality that our race is experiencing and they don't even want to hear so to me it's about getting to a place where people aren't afraid and even in the sports world is there still is to tour around the actual idea there still is to talk where you only can do a certain amount in order to keep our fans engaged and that's the problem as well and i think that's where we have to get to in order to actually see ship people not being worried about the millions of dollars that are being talked about it's really a social issue that has to be excluded in the women and money can't be talked about and hurting people still it can't be talked about because this is a race that's being oppressed against and this is blame it's clear in the media what's happening to black black individuals that are on arms. it's in me it's not

about money it's not about anything other than what it is and that's what we have to really make a change in a ship and not worry about hey i'm going to lose our money or hey i'm going to us that the wrong group of people who are going to lose this has to move from nash to hey this is the 1st issue in then we'll worry about that as it fall. just did. you hear my sorry i know when we hear that because and i think what's different about right now is that you know where we're starting to see a shift in the percentages of athletes that are speaking out within these leagues i mean when when you look at the totality of all of the athletes that are now starting to use their platform you're seeing a shared empowerment from the athletes that stood up at the time when they were by themselves and so when you're when you stand up by yourself you're you because your

job becomes more of a threat because it's very easy to single one person out but there is strength in numbers and so now that we're seeing a multitude of athletes use their platform and speak about the same things it makes it that much tougher for these weeks in these industries to one of the ridicule them for voicing their opinion or voicing how they feel about human rights and flat out what is right. i'm going to bring one mostly seem just for the end of the show the season lithia to keep athletes using that platform right it's essential in 2020 it's taken. newton soccer is a person of influence and overtly white space he chooses use her platform to ways awareness on a longstanding issues that are yet to be fixed stomach racism police brutality the fact that countless of black people are being on justifiably profile of and killed

by those that are paid and sworn in to protect and serve as someone of the media it's not only how she uses her platform but also how our influence of beck's her fan base and how they talk and see in these matters that affect people who are still marginalized by the powers that be. after. getting the public to talk about justice john tell. me and appreciate you. taken without hesitation the forgotten died for our cause. defines our. its. power investigate exposes and question

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