After Uvalde, sports figures no longer neutral
As a moment of silence was held at TD Garden in Boston on Friday night for the 19 children and two teachers killed in Uvalde, a scoreboard graphic encouraged fans to call their senators to support common-sense gun laws.The moment of silence didn’t last long this time. Someone in the crowd at Boston’s TD Garden interrupted it by yelling, “Do something!,” per reporters in the arena Friday night. Then others yelled, too.
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” Howard Zinn, the late historian and World War II veteran, said years ago, and now the people who run sports teams are starting to understand what he meant. The train is taking us all somewhere, and those who sit still and do nothing are in essence deciding to go along for the ride.
It also prompted the predictable and disingenuous “What about Chicago?” and “What about China?” responses from those who aren’t really interested in discussing where the guns in Chicago were bought in the first place, or talking about why sports leagues have more of an obligation to stay out of China than businesses like Boeing or General Motors do.
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