Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined as always by Paul Tenorio, and we are going to get to

MLS Resumption of Play, and we're going to spend the bulk of this show talking about that,

but we would be remiss and completely out of touch if we did not begin this show with the far more

important matters that are currently going on in our country and around the world, and the

protest in response to the killing,

to the murder, really, of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and to really the centuries of violence

faced by black people and other people of color in this country. I say this as a white man, as a 29-year-old white man from, frankly, a wealthy background.

I went to fantastic public schools.

I went to a fantastic university.

It was paid for in full by my parents.

I am the face, quite literally, of white power and privilege in this country.

And I have done little to nothing in my life to support the cause of justice and equal rights for black people and other minorities in this country.

I've thought the right things. I've said

them out loud in private company and sometimes on Twitter, but I've done little to nothing to

actually make an impact. And I say this again, recognizing that this is not my struggle. It's not.

It is the struggle of the millions and millions of black people in this country and brown people and other minorities in this country,

including, you know, my wife and her family. And, you know, if we have children, our future

children. And I say that as background to sort of inform my experiences.

I have no excuse for having done so little in the past. I said it's not my struggle. It's not.

It's theirs. You know, I feel pain. I feel frustration, but I don't feel the same

level. I don't feel it the same way. It is my responsibility as a white man, as someone who,

you know, is part of the group that has historically and continues to hold the levers of power

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