For those who still believe that athletes should be apolitical, it’s time to wake up. Players in the WNBA, NBA, MLS, NHL and MLB have shown there is no separating the two. The Washington Mystics are much more than basketball players. They are champions. They are advocates. They are human beings.
The postponement of major sporting events in recent days is a result of players speaking against racial inequality, most recently in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man who was shot seven times in the back, in front of his children, in Kenosha, Wis.