'The more I educate myself the more I can speak on these issues that we see here,” said Raptors forward Pascal Siakam. As the NBA restarts, it's important that the social justice conversation doesn't get swept under the rug. (via loung_s)
But while the key to the Raptors’ performance in the NBA restart may be easy to identify and answer, a much more difficult thing to do will be to ensure the social and racial justice issues that have been talked about in the leadup to actual games returning don’t get swept under the rug when everything starts to count again.
Siakam, a Cameroon native, has had a different experience with anti-Black racism in his life and said he had to learn about the history of it in North American when he first came over to the continent when he was 16. “I think just keep the conversation going,” Siakam said in regards to how to prevent social justice issues from being overshadowed by basketball. “I think our team, we have a lot of special things set up and things that we’ve been thinking about to try and make sure we keep educating ourselves and educating people.
Originally a member of the Memphis Grizzlies, Gasol recalled one of the first activities the team did together was to visit the National Civil Rights Museum built around the former Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
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