Welcome to a very special edition of the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week, we were supposed to talk to trailblazing trans triathlete Chris Mosier.

That's been put on hold for one week.

So we'll talk to Chris next week following the events of last Wednesday in my home city here of Washington, D.C.

Now, I'm going to take some time in a moment to speak about the most important sports politics story that we should be focusing on,

the WMBA players and their support for now Senator-elect Raphael Warnock against WMBA

owner Kelly Loughler.

But let's start by talking about Wednesday.

Look, I agree with the pundits who say that the fascist white supremacist riot that took place in Washington, D.C. on January 6th, truly is a day that will live in infamy.

Not because I view the capital as some kind of beacon of democracy. It's a building built by slave labor where wars that have savaged millions across the globe have been planned and funded.

And I have no love for any of that.

But I do have love for this city, this state, this district, whatever you want to call D.C.

And I'll call it a city because until we win statehood, which we absolutely should, that's what it is.

It's a federal city. It's a federal city.

It's Washington, D.C.

But what Wednesday was, was an invasion by a fascist mob into a place once known as Chocolate City.

It's a lot more than just the capital.

It's a place that was the home of people like Duke Ellington, Dorothy Height, Marvin Gay,

Roberta Flack, and Hilda Mason.

And if you don't know all of those names, do please look them up. It's the home of Go-Go,

half-smokes, and a resistance to racism that stretches back as long as there's been a federal

city. It's a place where hoods, our neighborhoods, where people choose to sit on their front porch instead of the back.

John Kennedy once said that D.C. was a city of Southern Efficiency and Northern Charm.

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