{"id":55601,"date":"2020-08-28T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-is-not-first-time-sports-world-has-fought-for-social-justice\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:03:00","slug":"this-is-not-first-time-sports-world-has-fought-for-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-is-not-first-time-sports-world-has-fought-for-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"#This is not first time sports world has fought for social justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This is not first time sports world has fought for social<\/a> justice<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n There is a reason why the sports section of your news<\/a>paper has for generations been dubbed \u2014 alternately with affection and with affliction \u2013 as \u201cthe toy department.\u201d It was the Chief Justice of the United States, Earl Warren, who once provided a little extra context to that descript<\/a>ion<\/p>\n

\u201cI always turn to the sports section first,\u201d Warren famously said. \u201cThe sports page records people\u2019s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man\u2019s failures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warren retired from the Court in June 1969, five days shy of exactly two years before that august body would offer its own opinion on that old chestnut. It was on June 28, 1971, when the Court voted 8-0 in favor of the plaintiff in Clay v. United States, overturning the draft-evading conviction of the man who was by then known as Muhammad Ali, and who was the single-most famous athlete on the planet.<\/p>\n

It is important to remember in these fevered days that sports has not only mingled with societal issues forever, it has also general<\/a>ly stood a few steps ahead of the curve. The NBA players who forged this latest sea change in the Florida bubble join a long list of their forebears who have used their public platforms to say things \u2014 sometimes shout things \u2014 that some didn\u2019t want to hear.<\/p>\n

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This is not the first time NBA players have protested over social issues, The Post\u2019s Mike Vaccaro writes.<\/span>NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And basketball has long been a most reliable arbiter of such issues because for at least the last 70 years of its history it has been populated by such a large number of men of color. So it was that at the same time as Ali was fighting his own battles, a number of high-profile black basketball players \u2014 Lew Alcindor, Bob Lanier, Elvin Hayes \u2014 opted not to play for the 1968 Olympic basketball team.<\/p>\n

So it was that in 1961, five Celtics \u2014 Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Tom Sanders, Al Butler and Sam Jones \u2014 bolted an exhibition game<\/a> scheduled between the Celtics and St. Louis Hawks in Lexington, Ky., after they were refused service in the coffee shop at the Phoenix Hotel, where the players were staying. They flew home and Red Auerbach, their coach, said, \u201cI support that decision 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it was that in the mid- and late-\u201950s, a number of prominent Northeastern college teams preferred to play in the NIT rather than the NCAA, because New York City was more welcoming than the various cities in North Carolina that usually hosted the East regionals. Seton Hall\u2019s No. 1 team in 1953 chose this path, and that was before an incident late in the season at Louisville \u2014 whose fans spent the night racially riding the Pirates\u2019 best player, Walter Dukes \u2014 justified that decision.<\/p>\n

So it was that in 1963, it took a surreptitious plan to sneak Mississippi State\u2019s all-white basketball team out of Starkville, defying a court injunction, to the NCAA Tournament in East Lansing, Mich. And so it was three years later when all-black Texas Western defeated all-white Kentucky and its patrician racist coach, Adolph Rupp, who for years had called New York newspapers asking about local prospects and asking, \u201cWhite or colored?\u201d<\/p>\n

It has never only been basketball, though, which is why it is appropriate that other sports have joined in the movement. Some football teams, including the Jets, decided not to practice Thursday, and so did several college teams (notably BC and Kentucky), honoring the legacy of the 1965 AFL All-Stars, who forced their All-Star Game out of New Orleans when the black participants were refused service by local cabs and restaurants, and the game was moved to Houston.<\/p>\n

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Muhammad Ali<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And of course there is baseball, which for too long allowed the stain of segregation to spoil its history and soil its history books. And as important as Branch Rickey\u2019s signing of Jackie Robinson was, as important to the cause was what the Dodgers\u2019 soon-to-be-suspended manager, Leo Durocher \u2014 never exactly noted as a progressive \u2014 said to a group of Brooklyn players who were buzzing about signing an anti-Robinson petition in spring training:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has strip<\/a>es like a f\u2013kin\u2019 zebra. I\u2019m the manager of this team, and I say he plays.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it was encouraging \u2014 and not surprising \u2014 to see The Players Alliance announce that its 100-strong membership of present and past ballplayers have agreed to donate their earnings from Thursday and Friday (which also happens to be the annual day MLB will designate to celebrate Robinson) \u2014 and others have joined the pledge.<\/p>\n

And it was affirming \u2014 despite the leaked-video slapstick that preceded it \u2014 that the Marlins and Mets would conduct a note-perfect 42-second moment of silence before joining many of their fellow players in spending the day away from the field. And appropriate that this demonstration would take place exactly 13 miles from where Ebbets Field once stood, the place where Jackie Robinson permanently altered baseball\u2019s destiny.<\/p>\n

Sports, as it so often has, cleared its throat this week. And maybe, as in the past, has cleared a path for something real.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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