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Black athletes are still battling racism in 2018
A common racist trope in the world of sport is the belief that only white athletes can do the thinking while black players just have brute strength
New Yorkers walk past a Nike advertisement featuring former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, known for kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality

IT’S been a while. Not because I haven’t had anything to talk about, quite the opposite.

But with so much going on, it felt best to take my time and see how everything developed.

The last thing I wanted to do was jump to conclusions or write something I would have to retract days later.

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