The Premature Activist Athlete: Royce White on the ESPYs opening
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. |
| 1:03.6 | Good evening. Tonight is a celebration of sports. Celebrating our accomplishments and our victories. |
| 1:13.6 | But in this moment of celebration, we actually start the show tonight this way. The four of us talking to our fellow athletes |
| 1:18.6 | with the country watching, because we cannot ignore the realities of the current state of America. |
| 1:23.6 | The events of the past week have put a spotlight on injustice, distrust, and anger that |
| 1:29.3 | plagued so many of us. |
| 1:31.0 | The system is broken. |
| 1:32.5 | The problems are not new. |
| 1:34.2 | The violence is not new. |
| 1:35.9 | And the racial divide definitely is not new. |
| 1:39.2 | But the urgency to create change is at an all-time high. We stand here tonight accepting our role in uniting communities to be the change we need to see. |
| 1:50.0 | We stand before you as fathers, sons, husbands, brothers, uncles, and in my case, as an African-American man and the nephew of a police officer, |
| 2:02.7 | who was one of the hundreds of thousands of great officers serving this country. |
| 2:07.0 | But, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Gardner, Laquan McDonald, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile. |
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