Dave Zirin on Football Prayer Ruling, Howard Bryant on Black Athletes & Social Change

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It’s another Supreme Court ruling that bases itself in a reality that doesn’t exist. This ruling in particular irritates meaningfully, because of course we know that “taking a knee” is the sort of gesture that is either a fresh wind of free expression, or a horrible affront to the values we hold dear, depending on who does it. So we’ll hear today from Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation and author of many books, including, most recently, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World. CounterSpin talked with him in June 2018, and we hear part of that conversation this week. Transcript: ‘The Black Athlete Has Been Involved in the Political Struggle From the Beginning’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at coverage of Supreme Court nominees.