As protesting Americans continue to call out racial injustice, Warriors coach Steve Kerr believes monumental change can’t happen unless he and other white citizens make an effort to empathize with their African American neighbors.
“Nobody who’s a white person in this country can possibly put ourselves in a Black person’s shoes,” Kerr says during an interview on tonight’s special edition of “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” (10 p.m. June 23, HBO). “But it’s imperative that we at least try. And one of the things we have to do is learn the real history of the African American experience and why what happened 400 years ago still impacts the lives of African Americans today.