Richard Issa Has Hope For The Running Community As We Heal
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our discussion about race and sport, Matt Meyer decided to bring on our friend Richard Issa Bockari. He heads the Issa Run Crew in Philadelphia. He shares his experiences in the running community from the perspective as a Black runner in the middle of the pack and among the amateurs – where it is very often white. On Global Running Day, he invited a few members from his run crew to join him in a protest run but instead, they marched and then took a knee in the middle of a Philadelphia intersection for a moment of silence that lasted nine minutes.
In this episode, he discusses the conversations he's having with members of his running community, questions people should be asking themselves and how we can all be allies in the Black Lives Matter movement.
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| 1:07.7 | I might have to be my new hashtag I am back with Matt Meyer for our monthly show. We didn't do one for May because there were a lot more |
| 1:17.0 | important things to discuss in today's world. However, we decided that we were breaking up our monthly show into two parts for this month |
| 1:24.0 | we'll hit you with the first one in this episode and the second episode will |
| 1:28.8 | dive into all of the races that have taken place and sort of the biggest happenings in the sport. |
| 1:36.7 | But for this episode we're going to bring on our friend Richard Issa. |
| 1:39.9 | He is the head of Issa Run crew in Philadelphia Philadelphia and on Global Running Day earlier this month |
| 1:45.1 | he invited a group of people on a protest run but they ended up kneeling in |
| 1:50.3 | solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement at an intersection for nine minutes. |
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