The Heritage of the Black Athlete

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This is a good one. We speak to ESPN the Magazine's Howard Bryant about his forthcoming book "The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism." Bryant explores the development of the black athlete over the last 75 years, including the changing social and political dynamics.We also have a Choice Words segment that looks back at the year that was in sports and politics, and the backlash that followed the historic groundswell of protests. We also have a Just Stand Up award for McKayla Maroney for her courage in coming forward to tell the truth about USA Gymnastics, a Just Sit Down award to Jerry Richardson after a jarring expose in Sports Illustrated, and our last Kaepernick Watch of 2017. All that and more!Howard Bryant, ESPN ColumnistFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hbryant42https://www.amazon.com/Heritage-Athletes-Divided-Politics-Patriotism/dp/0807026999Zirin, 2017 in Sports and Politics: The Return of the Backlashhttps://www.thenation.com/article/2017-in-sports-and-politics-the-return-of-the-backlash/—http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)—Support our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/edgeofsportspod—Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | Can’t Truss It - Public Enemy | Song of the Underground Railroad - John Coltrane | Lean Back - Fat Joe | Trillionaire - Bun B | Fall in Love - Slum Village | All Night - Chance the Rapper Feat. Knox Fortune | Ain’t No Sunshine - DMX | All Black - Big L | Stakes Is High - De La Soul | The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Today's athlete is an individual corporation.
0:02.6	Their job is not to advocate specifically for black people.
0:06.5	It's to bridge the peace.
0:09.0	It's to make sure everybody gets along.
0:10.5	We have LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade all stand up there
0:15.2	and advocate for black people, but also advocate for peace.
0:20.3	Very, very different dynamic than the Ali attitude of, I'm here for my people.
0:31.7	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziren.
0:39.1	This is our last podcast of 2017, and I could not imagine a better guest.
0:44.6	We are talking to ESPN's Howard Bryant about his new book.
0:47.7	It doesn't come out until next year, but it is so in tune with the politics of this show
0:53.0	that I can promise you this will be the first of several
0:56.0	interviews we do with Howard about this book. His book is called The Heritage, Black Athletes,
1:01.5	A Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism. Also, I've got a 2017 year in review. I'm going to
1:09.5	read out to y'all, and I've got just stand up, just sit
1:13.1	your ass down. I got a very special Colin Kaepernick watch. And of course, a big shout
1:19.7	out to everybody who made the show what it was in 2017, which I'm going to do at the end.
1:24.2	Don't forget you can support this show on Patreon. Go to www.patriand.com
1:29.9	slash edge of sports pod to make sure we can keep doing this show deep into 2018. But first, Howard Bryant.
1:43.2	So, Howard, one of the ways that you start this book, The Heritage, is by just putting it out there for the reader that for black athletes historically, sports has always been more than just sports.
1:58.4	Can you speak a little bit about what you mean about that? Because that, to me, is just like the thesis for the entire book.
2:03.6	Yeah, I think that the number one thing when I started to conceptualize this project
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