None of this is new to Lakers forward Tarik Black. It’s just that now, with every phone doubling as a video camera, more people can see injustices he’s long known existed.
“It’s something that’s really going on, it’s something that’s really happening,” Black said. “It needs to be dealt with, especially with what this country stands for. You can’t have a hypocritical country who, their whole thing is implementing equality. We’re helping other countries do it. That’s our whole thing. We’re going afar and going abroad saying we need equality.
“Then you come home and you look on our own soil.