History tends to repeat itself either by theme or by circumstance.
Fifty-one years ago, more than 1,300 black sanitation workers in Memphis walked off of their jobs and went on strike to protest unsafe working conditions, abuse and discrimination by the city. The lasting images of the strike were more than 200 workers carrying signs that read in bold black letters “I am a man.”
Three nights ago, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook stood on the visitors’ sideline of Vivint Smart Home Arena, in the midst of a hostile Salt Lake City crowd with a rep that precedes them and absorbed the over the top and racially charged comments from Jazz fan Shane Keisel before snapping and vehemently confronting Keisel and his wife.