On one of the most consequential nights in recent sports history — when a player-led boycott forced the NBA to postpone playoff games — the Republican National Convention offered pro-Donald Trump testimonials from a retired Notre Dame coach and a former NFL player facing insider-trading charges.
Trump has plenty of support among athletes, especially white ones, across a range of sports. And he has hobnobbed with many Black sports figures, most from previous generations, like Mike Tyson, Herschel Walker and Jim Brown. Some, like Walker, have appeared at the Republican National Convention and delivered a message that the party wants to project — that the president is not racist.
Many see the Trump era less as an exceptional moment in U.S. history than as the resurgence of chronic patterns of oppression, discrimination and racial violence. “For me, I think no matter what, I wasn’t going to play tonight,” said Mookie Betts, the star Dodgers outfielder, who is Black. Even before the Milwaukee Bucks players announced their boycott of Wednesday’s playoff game, Black athletes and their coaches had been offering yearning expressions of anguish as resonant as anything uttered at either political convention.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer — whose eight-year tenure as New York City mayor included numerous episodes of police-instigated violence — ripped into Rivers during an appearance on Fox News Radio on Wednesday. “What Doc is doing is seriously misleading the African American community,” he said. “It’s a con job the Democrats have played on them for 60 years.”
In related news, Yahoo only hires angry homeless people and 12 year old lesbian wannabes to be their 'journalists' 'Fealty'? That's just embarrassing. Fire Dylan Stableford. He sucks
Hahaha media propaganda
The embarrassing state of our media here
Democratic politics in the USA has always been a hallowed tradition. Isn't it preferred to downright dirty, rabid politics?
Fealty? Sworn loyalty to a Lord? Really Yahoo?