Jemele Hill
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691 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Jemele Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was like, it's not about the guns.
It's about this system of violence that seems completely sanctioned by not just our country, but by a system that is supposed to be protecting us.
And so just because you're LeBron James doesn't mean that you can't internalize oppression like everybody else.
It worked for the time being, and now that we look back on what's happened over the course of five years, and it's funny because I think I did write this for The Atlantic for 2024.
I'm pretty sure that I did, leading into the 2024 election, about all that momentum that was gained in 2020.
And I realized it was a very unique moment, not just because of COVID, but because you actually had two...
Pretty outspoken leagues that were both all were in both leagues that being the WNBA and the NBA where all the players were actually together.
It's so much easier to organize when everybody's there.
Right.
And so you had that and you had the fact that you had players in the street who were protesting when George Floyd was murdered.
And so it was a very rare time that you would see that.
And so my obviously poor assumption was that that was something that would be a blueprint and would show them that it works.
And 2024 rolled around and you barely heard from athletes in the political space.
I did not see many of them.
If any, I'm struggling to think right now campaigning for Kamala Harris or just
even encouraging people to vote.
You saw some things here and there, like I know the NFL ran something, but that same energy that was there in 2020 was not there at all in 2024.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's part of it.
And I also think that sometimes the examples of what the consequence can be can feel louder than the examples of what the progress is.
You look at Colin Kaepernick, and I contend that of the many ways that he was let down was because none of the players really stood up for him.
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