We're starting to see like, wow, black women are organizers. They've been doing this work.

They're the forgotten people in history that have shown up and voted time and time again.

And we are those same black women that have been, you know, kneeling with Kaepernick.

We've been talking about issues. We have chance players in our leagues.

Like we are on the fringe of fringes of political and aware of league that you could possibly be.

And so it couldn't be any closer to home the connection.

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

This week we're speaking to a basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association who made news when they led their team and the Seattle storm off the court before the national anthem. Their name is Lacia Clarendon.

Before we get to Lacia Clarendon, I've got some choice words.

I want to read them beforehand to explain why I think Lacia Clarendon is such an important

figure right now in the current context.

Also I've got just stand up and just sit Down awards and more, but first, let me read

you this about what just took place in the WMBA.

Okay, look, as the sports world limps towards a reopening, complete with bubbles, fake crowds,

and COVID nursing stations with round-the-clock testing that the rest of us couldn't hope to access.

We're also seeing something new.

Safe protest.

Part of the spectacle in the new sports world is seeing which athlete is now taking a knee before or during the anthem,

wearing a Nike-NBA-approved racial justice slogan on their uniforms,

or raising a fist as the anthem plays.

These gestures, which would have been absolutely electric a year ago,

have become commonplace, acceptable, and a hallmark of the woke capitalism

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