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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Meet the Press Reports: Athletes have long been involved in activism, but today's protests are different.

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and welcome to Meet the Press reports. Last summer after
0:18.0	the murder of George Floyd we saw thousands take to the streets to protest the way black
0:22.3	people are treated by the police.
0:24.5	Along those speaking out, professional athletes from just about every sport.
0:31.2	And it sounds like this nobody has stood together.
0:33.2	We knew a focus was going to be on say her name and focus was going to be on social
0:37.2	justice.
0:38.2	Silence is no longer an option.
0:40.0	I'm fighting for my teammates and their families and their communities.
0:43.9	We needed to come together as a group as players and show that we believe that black lives
0:49.7	matter.
0:50.7	It's amazing.
0:51.7	Why, we keep loving this country and this country is not love is back.
1:00.0	Games were postponed across leagues to shine a light on this issue.
1:03.5	But this is not the first time we've seen athletes use their playing time to call out
1:07.5	injustice.
1:08.5	In the 1950s Lakers star Elgin Baylor boycotted a game after he and two other black teammates
1:13.4	were told they could not stay in the team hotel in West Virginia.
1:16.8	In the 1960s Bill Russell and other black members of the Boston Celtics, they did the same
1:20.7	after they were refused service at a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky.
1:24.4	Players have also used their uniforms to make a statement.
1:26.8	Phoenix Sun protested Arizona's immigration policies by wearing low suns on their
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