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is the clear black lives. the say that it was an m b, a video released in june of the she is showing the support for the black lice. my

to add 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 jump in to add you to comment section and be part of this discussion. let me introduce the strings very. i'd dream team, no pressure desk day. so how do i tell everyone who your oh hey, uh, my name is david siren on the sports editor at the nation magazine and i have written a bunch of books about the politics of sports. nice to have you. welcome back to the stream. hello max. oh, tell everybody who you all do. you are the introduction. hello everyone. my name is maxwell pier assignment at suite i am an influencer and play for the hawkins. overcharged. thanks for joining us, mike. so john, to introduce yourself. hello everyone. my name is jan. so lavender, i am with the indiana fever is the w. b 18. the women's national basketball association. and i am an actors and i'm happy to be here. dental,

i'm just looking at the w and the a and say all out that or a with using app. how like using apple not full. if you pick one moment as the last couple of months of athletes using that platform, active as of what was the moment this talk out, it gives that really hit hub for the entire initiative that the w m. b, a has put forward with, say, heard to say her name campaign and where brianna taylor's name on the back of all of their jerseys has been huge. sports is one of the biggest platforms i think you can use for, for activism. because people watch it. and people want to see it on tv. and when you see at least taking a stance, people take notice people take sheet and i think that that's been the, the largest, the biggest thing i've seen. but um, since cap or neck and the milwaukee bucks sitting out because of the reasoning showing up jacob blake. mike, so there was a moment to me. well i just when go. i cannot believe they did this and that was an

nfl players came out and said, the re support lies. not a movement of this so long after being so controversial to the take any became a, a political discussion. what was the moment for you where you just said, this is extraordinary in the world of support today for me or where's when the and the a teams decided not to play their games and seeing the impact of that and how quickly it sprayed to other leads i mean that the m o b, b m a less, a few other reason other teams followed suit within 24 hours. so to see the impact and, and the silence that it brought so many people who are looking forward to watching sports games. when they turn on our tv 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 of about

that me. yeah, yeah. me i, i really have to agree with what maxwell said, because i think what happened a couple of weeks ago when the n, b, a, w, n b, a major league baseball, major league soccer, the national, hockey league, naomi, or soccer and tennis with all 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 equalled 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 is not straight to happen because so many different sports happen because jacob, like who, who essentially is, is not dad was shot by the police in the back and not figure out when 50 and then actually so that we're not, we're not playing. we company we, we don't feel like we're playing. i want to share with you shannon ryan stuart.

she's a sports reporter at the chicago tribune. and she like me day says this is something very different that's happening with sports. and so let's take a look. usually when we think about athlete protests or thinking about individuals, maybe mohammed ali or tommy smith and john carlos raising the fist of the 1960 olympics, calling cameron, taking any what's different about today's protests as we're seeing across different leaks, 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 a and b has demanded arena's be used for voting sites. mississippi athletes helped me push for change to change their state, trying to get rid of the 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 share with you some thoughts from the youtube comments and some people are upset that they're using the dental a maxwell to come. well, it says the only thing you are doing is destroying the sport and the li, dental. he take that festival, is that very interesting because when you have world issues, you need to focus on them and being a black woman of being a part of sports. we're we make up a large percentage of the sporting community, especially in basketball. and i feel like if we're not being respected, 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 route up, is because you have to respect us as a human being. first, we are people, we do, we play the sport, but as a people we have to be respected. and if you can come to a game insurance on, then you should be able to respect us when we go home. and would you guys says max,

so i'm, i'm fascinated by up what you all just going to beach but he goes, thank you for a sense of being on the chart just because someone knows how to, who doesn't mean that he's or her opinion is of any how you wow, wow, well, 1st of all it's, it's important to understand that whatever, whatever job you have, let's say you're a politician who's interested in sports. you know what everyone is entitled to their own level of opinion or intellect on things that they are not a professional and that's, that's 1st and foremost. and then 2nd we so i am going to just like all of the other assets, i am going to continue to use my platform that i have to, to speak on issues that i have direct ties and direct connections to as well as my family members. and the members of my community, i'm just, i can tell,

said is if you can come to a game and support me as an ad suite, then you should be able to support and respect me as the show went behind yours. because we are human beings 1st and asked which 2nd no matter how way you want to look at the days, go ahead. yeah. just the, the, 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 and a certain kind of politics to mix. they have no problem with politics and 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 nights and what 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 as of the seriously racist under totally or sometimes over tone 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 tommy smith and john carlos raise their fish. one of their slogans out 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 a let me just show you a nearby osaka. she won the us open on september, the 12th. and these images people were wasting every day. what mosque is she going

to? i have a look him on my not. and you can see and she is wearing the most of people who met a violent and because of police brutality. every day she had a black lines match and we went mosque on, and then at the end of the us open when she wanted. this is what she told to commentate to us to about the most. you said from the beginning, you had 7 matches, 7 masks, 7 names. what was the message? you wanted to send me over to tom? well, what was the message that you got? some more the question i feel like the point is to make people start talking. what were you most gratified about the awareness that you raised? i mean from here, i've been inside 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 retreat so you can get, sir. so wayne, but you know,

the more people talk about it genteel, what's it like being a female athlete? seeing all the actually doesn't even mind being an athlete thing of athletes or working together to the same and when you so name me do that, maxwell, i know you tweak it out. uh, natalie success on your twitter accounts as well. dental. do you guys last night? so you guys as well is, is phenomenal. and she's one of the biggest stages that she can ask for in the sports community and to see her speaking out. it lets people know the seriousness of what's going on in the world. and she said something that was very interesting to me. she says she wants people to talk. and i feel like i would, i would kinda tweak that in a sense with 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's 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, when did you get out of it?

and that's indeed what's huge is because it's the, as our friends that we need to step up, it's the people that are around that are playing with as are our teammates that are not the way our team make that, that love us every day. when we put on that jersey and compete with them, it's about what they think it's about what they feel. if they can hear his cry out and speak out about it and go home and be with a racist family member. that's not the message isn't being clear. and i love that. she mentioned that it's about how the world, the non african american people that are not being depressed, how they respond to it. might. so you should sammy's picture on your twitter feed. why? absolutely. for one, you know, it's, it's extremely admirable how the, naomi has spoken up and really how the w m. b, a has been leaders in this movement. i mean, when you think about women in sports, they deal with a whole, another layer of adversity. they have to deal with massage need,

they have to do with hyper masculinity people causing we telling them that they shouldn't be playing the sport which is just completely blasphemous. so that 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 check my head off to them and i am, i am trying to extremely hard to match that energy and be in support even when support there can be scarce, some tasks that you have. let me put this to you from youtube. this is from the how and watch a hat. how much can sports change racism in america as 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 citizens a freedom rider before freedom rides. jackie robinson integrates majorly baseball in 1947, almost

a full decade before the flowering of the montgomery bus boycott. and the civil rights move in, in the south, a sitting there before settings, a freedom rider before freedom rides. often times sports is like a weather vein in our society, and it tells us which way the wind is blowing. and sure enough, right now, what we're seeing is the wind blowing towards the justice, the wind is blowing towards 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 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 at punctures that privilege, it's severs that segregation. and it forces people to really confront the realities

that people. i mean, that's what naomi or soccer was doing. she was saying, look, if you're a tennis man, you might have the luxury of not knowing who elijah mclean is, but i'm going to put that name in front of you. you're going to know who olaja mclean is and that that's powerful. but that's also why athletes, i would argue our police 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 with you a athletes, jonesboro maxwell, some really supportive comments. these ones, this time coming from twitter, some thoughts about athletes and activities and citizens. we comp, that's democracy for, you know, once you run just assistantship at the locker room door, doug says the better question is not why athletes using that platform, but why should they be denied and active his role in whatever they believe in. and then i'm actually just going to jump across to maxwell, some of that you tweet it out on a story that reminds us that,

that is racism everywhere, including in sports and in the sports world. so tv, how struggling on a at holland blow to you at the holland, globetrotter? what happened to me? why is it relevant to what we're 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, excuse me, one of the news anchors pulled out a tangerine from his pocket and threw it to me. so i caught it 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 white woman behind the camera threw a banana at me. this is all happening on live television. and so my initial reaction, i caught the banana extremely stones shocked. i didn't know how to even begin to unpack what was actually 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 go for the size of my job. so i try my best to suppress it. and then brianna taylor, a model of re george floyd. all of these things re ignited the flame that had been applied at the time of this experience. and that's when i knew that, okay, 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 in my voice and the power that i truly have. it

empowers other people who experience my progressions 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 gonna have to figure out how to take full accountability for the things that we do and learn from the, on these micro aggressions have it h longest impact on us. and it may seem subtle, but any person who experiences micro rest is on a daily basis can tell you the actual intro weight of what these kind of things do . they go, i will put you in on, on a couple of things have happened. big things happen, so the, and if i was sort of sick, you know, sorry about the coal and cabinet thing and not so many was the celtics, for instance, kind of have a look here on my laptop, celtics on bell, $25000000.00. i can, you can dislike racial injustice. you could be cynical because this is only just happen to the last few months and the move last year was not quite this story that

you worked on a we've entity era or branding. so black, nice, which may be suggesting that this isn't truly real, but maybe teams and own is doesn't have any options, but to go along with it because what are they going to say? no, you caught me right now. how would they say that base? exactly. i mean, we just have to remember that these are multi $1000000000.00 corporations and they know which way the wind is blowing. and they know that they have very restive players. so the nfl, for example, they do not want their players to go out on strike like the n b a, the w, and be a major league baseball, etc. 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 so real and all of this. so there's all this fall off. there's a lot of branding, there's, you know, putting things like and racism in the end zones,

and up and the 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 saying they stayed in the locker room and the miami dolphins said, we don't want to be part of the propaganda. we don't want to be part of the floss. and what's so interesting about it is that what the nfl 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 his 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 they're texting 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, and it was mentioned also that i have a job to do or is something that i don't wanna lose my job. or i want to make sure i'm saying it in an in a nice way, and i think that that's where they have to get to where that we know that it's not about hey, we have to make sure we don't include police officers not to upset them. i know one time in the w. b a, we had a team that was way counting against minnesota, which was waiting on them against the police. and the police officers left the game because we were mixed at make, making a stand and saying, hey, we're tired of the police brutality that our race is experiencing. and they didn't even want to hear. so to me is about getting into a place where people aren't afraid. ringback and i, i, and even in the sports world, is there students to tour around the actual idea there still is to, to a work you only can do a certain amount in order to keep our fans engaged. and that's the problem as well . and i feel that's where we are to get you 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 be excluded and eliminate money can be talked about. and hurting people, stones can be talked about because this is a race that's being depressed against. and this is blaine, it's clear in the media, what's happening to black, bright individuals that are on arms. and sidney is not about money. it's not about anything other than what it is, and that's what we have to really make a change and a shift and not worry about, hey, i'm gonna lose out on money or hey, i'm going to set the wrong with the people who are going to lose the sponsorship, it has to move from nash to pay. this is the 1st issue and then we'll worry about that as it follows the student. yeah, yeah. i'm sorry i. yeah, i absolutely agree with that because um, 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 up within these weeks. 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're standing by yourself, if you're you be, couldn't, your job becomes more of a threat because it's very easy to single one person now. but their strength and numbers. and so now that we're seeing a multitude of asked me to use our platform and speak about the same things, it makes it that much tougher for these weeds. and these industries to clinical ridicule them for voicing their opinion or voicing how they feel about human rights. and so that flat out what is right. i'm going to bring one more voicing just for the end. just to show this is olivia to keep our athletes using that platform. why is essential in 2020? let's take a look. a newness aka is

a personal influence and an overly white space. you choose to use her platform to raise awareness on locks any issues that are yet to be fixed stomach, racism, police brutality, the fact that countless of black people are being justifiably, pro, filed and killed by those that are paid in sworn in to protect and serve as the wonder of the media, it's not only how she uses her platform, but also our influence affects her fan base and how they talk and see these matters that affects people who are still marginalized by the powers that be the athletes getting their sons, getting that public to talk about social justice gentle maxwell days. thank you for using our capital to lease an activism. appreciate you. thank you g. i'll see you next.

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