After Dan Le Batard used his radio show to call out racist chants at a Trump rally, it's apparent sports can no longer be where we go to avoid reality, writes columnist LZGranderson.
ESPN’s Dan Le Batard did not stick to sports on his radio show Thursday, speaking out against Trump, racism and his network’s “cowardly” policy of avoiding politics.Many of us understand the business of sports that leaders in the industry are charged with protecting. Le Batard is rightly questioning the cost of that protection.
They are becoming instead the daily demand we are chained to, and what was once considered the important issues of the day are now unwanted interruptions. Now that detachment has migrated from “I know something is wrong but I don’t care enough to do something about it” to “I didn’t know something was wrong because I was too busy researching before my fantasy football draft.”
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