Not sure if I agree. While some of the takes from athletes are laughably uncontroversial (and other laughably uncontroversial takes are considered controversial), there’s also a dearth of voices of color in the political sphere. Sure, we have Obama, but the kinds of audiences afforded to athletes, musicians, and…

Thank Gawd Schilling’s heroism is still memorialized in the equally-amazing ESPN 30 for 30 film, Fever Pitch.

Except that everyone has some level of racism and bias in their brain and no one is *not* affected by 400 years of racist ideology. Why hide from the idea that you benefit from a racist system and that your silence on the matter places you as an active beneficiary?