The day the Sport balls stopped bouncing for Social Justice

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR)

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR), is a national and international award-winning progressive, an intergenerational roundtable discussion of independent journalists from around the country. LTAR features rigorous analysis of news coverage, and the role race plays in politics, life, and society. LTAR is available on Audioport and PRX, and currently airs twice monthly on KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR.
The roundtable line-up features: LaNita Duke, award-winning multimedia producer for Grassroots News NW. Dianne Johnson is a professor and journalist from Texas. Althea Billings, a journalist and radio producer in Portland, OR. Rev. Cecil Prescod is a talk-show host in Portland, OR. Nia Gray is the host of The Faith Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And Mary Li, a proud bureaucrat reporting from Portland, OR.
On this edition of LTAR-We are revisiting the NBA/WNBA on the day the boycott of Sports-No ball was bounced and racial injustice was discussed in the arena of Sports
As we enter a history denying, book burning, anti-progressive era, the crew at LTAR wants to remind the world and ourselves -of the progressive history we continue to make
For this generation, the Sports boycott of the Summer of 2020 will go down in history as the day the balls stopped bouncing for social change
Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was left partially paralyzed after a white police officer shot him seven times in the back outside an apartment complex in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 23, 2020.

The shooting, which happened in front of three of Mr. Blake’s children, was captured by a neighbor in a video that circulated widely and rapidly on social media. Outrage spread quickly; nationwide protests for racial justice t following the deaths of George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans after encounters with the police.
Professional athletes in several leagues, led by the Milwaukee Bucks of the N.B.A., joined the protests by refusing to play
This was and is historical. and as the ring-wing backlash and revisited history continues; please do not forget the day the balls stopped bouncing
We also revisited Muhammad Ali -the greatest boxer of all time In the prime of his boxing career, Ali was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison. He was also banned from boxing for three years. In 1967, Muhammad Ali was called to join the Vietnam draft; he refused to join the U.S. Army. As a Muslim, Ali also didn’t support the war. Ali refused to step forward for the draft on April 28, 1967. He was arrested that same day. Before he was even convicted, The New York State Athletic Commission revoked Ali’s boxing license. A few months later, Ali was convicted of draft evasion. He was sentenced to five years in prison and banned from boxing for three years.
Also, we go back to 1968; Wearing beads and scarves to oppose lynchings, and black socks with no shoes to highlight poverty, African American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos took to the podium during the October 16, 1968, Olympic medal ceremony in Mexico City to receive their respective gold and bronze medals in the 200-meter race. But it was a single accessory—a black glove—and an accompanying gesture—a raised fist during the American national anthem—that sparked an uproar. From that moment, the two athletes would be vilified threatened, and, in some circles, celebrated.
We are focused on Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and football quarterback who took a knee and lost his football career
We end the show with the comments from Steven Kerr regarding the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. And WNBA Brianna Turner calls for change after the Uvalde school shooting.

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