Ryan S. Clark on Racism and Hockey's Response to Injustice

The Full 60 with Craig Custance

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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With protests happening worldwide and the national conversation over racism in society, The Athletic's Ryan S. Clark joins Craig for an in-depth conversation about hockey's response to the recent events stemming from George Floyd's death in Minnesota, and Ryan's conversations with some of the NHL's most prominent players about white athletes speaking out. Ryan also discusses how the league can do more to promote social conversations about race, as well as his own experiences with racism and what hockey fans can do to better address the issue. Read Ryan's piece about why white NHLers are calling out racism now: https://theathletic.com/1851060/2020/06/03/why-white-nhlers-are-calling-out-racism-now-hit-me-so-deep-that-i-was-angry/

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1:49.6	This week's guest is Ryan Clark, who covers the Colorado Avalanche for us at the Athletic.
1:56.5	And in light of all of the protests sweeping the country right now, the world, following George Floyd's death at the hands of a police officer.
2:07.1	I wanted to have Ryan on here, and him and I talked at length a few days before this, just about the kinds of conversations that needed to be happening right now in the world of
2:19.6	hockey in our country um within our company and i you know in talking to ryan it was it was
2:28.9	clear pretty quickly that like this wasn't a conversation that we should just be having one-on-one without
2:35.6	anybody else involved i want to you know we wanted to be public we wanted to be transparent with
2:40.9	it and listen to ryan and i wanted to ask a few questions but mostly give him the opportunity
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