A Conversation with David Leonard about the Super Bowl, Colin Kaepernick, and the Politics of the Black Athlete
David Leonard is Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman.
He is the author of numerous books and articles on race, politics, popular culture and sports including After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness.
David explains how sports are inherently political, why Colin Kaepernick is viewed as such a threat by the NFL and White America, Black Lives Matter and resistance by “taking a knee” at sporting events, the black athlete as a social and political figure, the insincere and problematic neoliberal politics of Nike’s 30th anniversary “courage” ad campaign, as well as Tim Tebow, white privilege and hypocrisy.
On this week’s show, Chauncey DeVega challenges the myth of billionaires and capitalism as uplifting the world’s poor and being saviors for humanity and shares how Donald Trump is now the White House sex tour guide who lies (even always, again and often) about Barack Obama. Chauncey then reads some hate mail as he reflects on the fallout from his series of widely read essays on the Covington Catholic Teen Magaites and white privilege.
At the end of this week’s show, Chauncey shares two happy stories. The first is about a working class man who just won Powerball. The second is a wonderful story about a 3-year-old boy who was lost in the woods and saved by a friendly bear.
Source: http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2019/02/a-conversation-with-david-leonard-about.html
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