Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.

This week we talk about what happens to this new generation of athlete activists in the age of Trump.

And I can't think of anybody better to talk to about this subject than legendary sports sociologist, Dr. Harry Edwards.

First and foremost, just as a baseline to this discussion, what is your impression of the

election results from last week?

Well, I'm neither surprised nor chagrin that the outcome, the media, especially mainstream media in this country, did not expose Trump because they never attacked him straight on

in terms of his racist, misogynistic, xenophobic policies.

They gave him free time, billions of dollars in free time.

They didn't expose him.

They showcased him.

And then when I look at what was happening in American society,

with black men, women, and children being shot down by police officers

and nobody going to jail.

When I look and see an Oscar Grant who is killed while he's on his stomach with two cops on him,

and he's shot, and the guy that shot him gets less time than Michael Big got for murdering much.

I, you know, I never deluded myself into thinking that somehow we were in some post-racial America.

I looked at the way that they treated the first African-American president and his family.

And so I was not shocked or chagrin.

The issue now, for me, is what do we do about it?

And at one level, it's crystal clear that this situation can no longer be denied,

and we have to go to work. Now, I agree with everything you just said. Racism, of course,

animated this election, the horrific dereliction of duty by the media animated this election.

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