Now it’s not during the anthem. Now it’s not near the flag. Now it can’t be twisted as anti-military or anti-American. Now it’s games, their games, first one NBA playoff game, then the rest for the day, and then games in other major pro sports, too. Now the anger over the illogical, senseless shooting of Jacob Blake has reached the point when our finest athletes won’t play.
This is not the end of sports, but if it feels like it, then maybe that’s the point: to imagine a world that is not like the one we knew before.