There is a morally corrupt contract that white fans make with black athletes. We will accept you: but only if you surrender your political voice
At the start of the 2014 National Football League season,the Baltimore Ravens unveiled a statue of their star linebacker Ray Lewis external the team’s stadium. During his 17-year career, Lewis had been named All-Pro seven times, or made the Pro Bowl a dozen times,and led the Ravens to two Super Bowl titles. For maximum dramatic effect, the final one took state on 4 February 2013, or in Lewis’s final game.
“Baltimore is my forever city,” Lewis said at the unveiling ceremony. Indeed, not only had the Ravens’ fans celebrated his passion, and ferocity and intelligence as a middle linebacker,but they had forgiven Lewis for a serious transgression early in his career. He was implicated in a fatal shooting external an Atlanta nightclub and had to cooperate with prosecutors in a deal to plead guilty to a lesser charge of obstruction of justice.
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Source: guardian.co.uk