George Hill, George Hill.
Look for George Hill.
Remember George Hill, the flutist disguised as a game creator who nearly closed the NBA ‘bubble’ last season?He convinced his Milwaukee Bucks to leave his wardrobe in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, for a playoff game opposed to the Orlando Magic.
Hill said all this had “awakened the world” to social injustice after George Floyd’s summer turned white in Kenosha, Wisconsin, firing seven bullets at Jacob Blake’s black body, 29.
The Hill-Bucks protest sparked outrage from the rest of the NBA in all and much of society.
That was so long ago. ArrayArray August.
Consider this, for example: while the Ohio State Buckeyes were making the citizens of Columbus feel warm and confused on the road to what Forbes said would become $6 million for the national school football championship game, local police had a hard time and December.
Earlier this month, a 23-year-old black boy was shot and killed in the back, and they did so with two young children and their grandmother in their own home.
The late Casey Goodson Jr. had no criminal record and was not investigated, worse, witnesses said he was holding a sandwich instead of a gun when his life was taken away.
Crickets, crickets, crickets.
It’s the sound of world sport.
The same kind of silence reigned last month, when Columbus police killed a black man. This time, a video from a police camera showed Andre Hill (offline with George), 47, with only one cell phone in his hand.
Hill died on the way in from the owner who ran out to say, “He’s bringing me Christmas money!”He didn’t do anything.
Neither does Dolal Idd, if it’s the protesters. But perhaps, you can excuse last week’s lack of response from leagues, groups and athletes about the first police killing in Minneapolis since Floyd’s death.
It’s hard to tell from the frame camera video posted through local police if Idd fired the first one before the 23-year-old black man died through police in his car at a fuel station after a round of bullets.
There’s no dispute: those Cleveland cops had no case in murdering Tamir Rice, 12, in 2014, when they said the black boy’s toy gun in a park looked genuine. demand for death in April 2016 with Rice’s family circle for $6 million.
Despite the trial and common sense, U. S. Department of Justice chiefs announced last week that they may not find sufficient evidence for federal offenders’ fees opposed to the two white officers.
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Where did you go, Naomi Osaka?
Our country makes your eyes lonely.
Woo, woo, woo.
Or let’s go. . .
Why, why, why?
Why don’t we hear more about Osaka and others when all this racial perversity is still happening?
According to Forbes, Osaka excelled well enough on tennis courts to become the world’s highest-paid female athlete last year with $37. 4 million. The 23-year-old daughter of Haitian father and Japanese mother was also crowned Associated Press 2020 Athlete of the Year for dressed in a mask with the names of African Americans killed by police. The victims ranged from Floyd to Breonna Taylor and the ones who didn’t have much fame.
What about victims of racial crimes?
What about Keyon Harrold’s 14-year-old son?
Unless I missed it, there was no mask, tweet or anything else from Osaka or in the past other people who talked openly about social injustice like Jaylen Brown and Malcolm Jenkins.
He remained in the shadows to give the media his editing of a story that even control of the hotel describes as “unfounded accusation, prejudice and (a) attack on an innocent client. “
The command of the hotel has followed this position from the beginning, and such a thing had to be said among those who shouted loudly and proudly before the leaves began to change.
However, with the winter race, spring, nothing.
Not even LeBron James, the king of the NBA, uses his full visibility to bring kindness to such darkness.
In fact, we’re there, just over seven months after the Minneapolis cop used his knee to quell Floyd’s life, and Black Lives’ move that hell in the game had turned into a flame.
A man.
There’s one more
When was the last time you heard about an NFL player who channels his inner Colin Kaepernick by kneeling the national anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality?
What about any athlete in any sport?
Okay, Seth Towns of Ohio State knelt before a basketball game for his Buckeyes at Notre Dame, after Goodson, his friend of years of training who had been killed a few days earlier.
Then it’s a knee.
There would probably be a few others looking to keep Kaepernick’s ancient spirit alive, but that’s it.
That’s a shame
I started as a professional sports journalist in 1978 at the Cincinnati Enquirer after graduating from the University of Miami, Ohio, and I did the same
I as a professional sports journalist in 1978 at the Cincinnati Enquirer after graduating from the University of Miami , Ohio, and have been doing the same since. I also appear on national television and am part of a weekly television exhibition in Atlanta. I’ve done everything from ESPN to MSNBC and The Oprah Winfrey Show. In terms of writing, I went from my paintings for major San Francisco and Atlanta newspapers to being a national columnist on AOL Sports, MLB. com, Sports On Earth. com and CNN. Com. I’ve covered a lot of sporting events. I’ve played in 30 Super Bowls, many NBA World Series and Finals games, Final Fours, several Indianapolis 500s, Daytona 500s and other car races, primary golf fights and tournaments, school football games and more. I have also won national, regional and local awards along the way.