"After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities—once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends—after that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face—what comes next?"

How can we seem indifferent when stakeholders are passionate about—and often personally invested in—social issues, including human rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive rights? … How can any organization argue that any of this is not core to what they do, or who they are?

In your case, your weapons are your performances. In your case, your weapons are your records. In your case, your weapons are the emotions of sport.

"Listen: If Harriet Tubman ran to freedom, you can run to your destiny! Martin Luther King didn't march for you to get a degree and chill! ... Black folks didn't pick cotton so you could look cute in a black robe!"

Many of us have been saying for a long time that the world has been trying to transition in fog, without a compass, on a road to nowhere. Consumers increasingly agree, as transition realities bite.