As you've surely heard, at the start of Sunday's game in St. Louis, five members of the St. Louis Rams emerged onto the field making the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture that has become an iconic part of protests in the aftermath of the Michael Brown killing. In an era when athlete activism is thought to have been at a pretty low ebb, the shootings of Trayvon Martin and now Brown have elicited pointed responses from the sports world, an arena dominated by young black men who have every reason to ...
Michael Brown, Political Correctness, the St. Louis Rams and the Police
The Huffington Post - 2 Dec 2014 23:12
As you've surely heard, at the start of Sunday's game in St. Louis, five members of the St. Louis Rams emerged onto the field making the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture that has become an iconic part of protests in the aftermath of the Michael Brown killing. In an era when athlete activism is thought to have been at a pretty low ebb, the shootings of Trayvon Martin and now Brown have elicited pointed responses from the sports world, an arena dominated by young black men who have every reason to ...
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