Live Interview: How 'The Kaepernick Effect' Revealed Reactionary Forces in Youth Sports with Dave Zirin
Added 2021-10-06 15:58:31 +0000 UTCIn this recording of a Live Interview for Patrons from 9/22, we speak with The Nation sports editor Dave Zirin about his new book, The Kaepernick Effect, and how a series of protests in youth sports, namely among black youth, set off firestorms and backlash in dozens of small towns throughout the country. And what the "leave politics out of sports" ethos says about the evergreen importance of racial disciplining in sports media.
Guest
Dave Zirin is sports editor at The Nation magazine and host of the Edge of Sports podcast. Dave is the author of numerous books including What’s My Name, Fool?, People’s History of Sports in the United States, Welcome to the Terrordome, and Jim Brown: Last Man Standing. His latest book is The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World, out now from The New Press. Follow him @EdgeofSports.
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Show Notes
5 Years After Colin Kaepernick Refused to Stand, We Still Get the Story Wrong
Dave Zirin | July 8, 2021 | The Nation
Dave Zirin Thinks the Kaepernick Era Is Just Beginning
Will Leitch | September 14, 2021 | New York
Sing in Unison, David Brooks Tells Black Athletes
Adam Johnson | September 16, 2016 | FAIR
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Transcript
For a full transcript of this live interview, go here.
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Comments
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absoluteboi
2021-10-07 16:30:42 +0000 UTCExcellent interview! Another, totally unrelated (and possibly loaded) question: are you guys planning on discussing the issues at Current Affairs at all? Since this is a media crit podcast and NJR has been on once or twice, I wondered if it would be relevant and what you all would have to say about how its issues fit within left media, left politics as a whole, and other left-leaning media orgs that have similarly self-cannibalized.
Alex
2021-10-06 19:46:20 +0000 UTCAlways enjoy Zirin. Trying to find his full comment/interview where he talks about the Premier League and their players taking the knee.
Tom Kelly
2021-10-06 18:17:29 +0000 UTC
