The Upside Podcast Explores Social Justice in Sports & Beyond
The Upside Podcast, hosted by NERR founder Adam Finkelstein, has devoted all of their last six episodes to subjects of social justice and racial inequality in the United States as well as in the basketball world.
Earlier this week, Finkelstein wrote about that process, which began over three weeks ago, and what comes next.
On Monday, May 25th, Memorial Day, I was “off the grid” for most of the day; not connected to social media or the news.
So when I began scrolling through my feed to catch-up on Tuesday morning, my timeline was flooded with headlines about both George Floyd and Amy Cooper.
My most immediate reaction was sadness, something like “not again!”
My job is to cover college basketball recruiting. Part of that is having a presence on social media. But tweeting about recruiting or basketball just seemed irrelevant that day, disrespectful even.
To be honest, I’ve had more and more days like that in the last few years. Days when the weight of what I was seeing within the world, or more often our country in particular, seemed too heavy for things like basketball to matter.
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