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Edge of Sports

Edge of Sports Podcast Thu, 04 Dec 2014

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

Politics, News, Sports, History, Sports News

4.8619 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Episode 239: Dave and Coach try to do the impossible: Have a conversation about race. Dave explains the difference between something being racist and someone being racist. Something being racialized and someone being racist. They touch on the St. Louis Rams protest and the messages of Deon Long, wide receiver at the University of Maryland, and Ariyana Smith of Knox College. Jamilah King from Colorlines joins the show to update the Edge of Sports community on the protests going on in NYC. Dave and Coach remember the late Bryan Burwell. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

We are about to break the surly ponds of gravity and punch the face of God.

0:07.3

Left Jab Productions present Edge of Sports Radio, where sports and politics collage.

0:18.0

And now your host, Dave Zarin.

0:21.0

The Schmada Kid.

0:23.3

At the sports radio with Dave Ziren, I did not boom today.

0:28.0

This has been a week of absolutely heartbreaking news across this country.

0:35.6

I'm joined by the coach, Kevin McNutt.

0:37.1

How are you doing, coach? Doing well, brother. Doing well. I mean joined by the coach, Kevin McNutt. How are you doing, Coach?

0:37.9

Doing well, brother, doing well.

0:39.3

I mean, first of all, as we're recording this show, I personally, as a New Yorker and as a human being,

0:46.9

I'm in a state of anger after a grand jury in Staten Island made clear what a grand jury in

0:53.1

Ferguson made clear.

0:54.8

And that's that black lives do not matter in this criminal justice system.

0:59.2

You know, Langston Hughes once said,

1:02.0

Justice is a blind goddess,

1:04.2

is a thing to which we black are wise.

1:06.7

Her bandage hides two festering sores where once perhaps were eyes.

1:12.0

And that's how I'm feeling.

1:13.5

So on this show, after this break coach, I think one thing that it might be, what I'd like to do is shut my own mouth and just hear your own thoughts about the last couple weeks.

1:23.8

I mean, since we lasted a show, it seems like not two weeks, but two lifetimes ago

1:27.8

with Ferguson, Staten Island, Michael Brown, Eric Garner. And we also are later in the show going to talk

1:34.7

to Jamila King from Colorline. She's in New York. And obviously, there's so much sports and

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