Henry Abbott’s post about race and the NBA is definitely worth checking out:
The NBA has been eager to declare victory, on the topic of race, and then move on. That almost seems to imply that some kind of spell was cast — and since then all that racism we know existed was wiped away for good.
But of course it was painstaking and slow progress, born of hard conversations, hard-won respect, and hard-earned trust. It’s in degrees of gradation, and it’s in a much better place now. It did not evaporate, though.
