In February for Black History Month, USA TODAY Sports is publishing the series “28 Black Stories in 28 Days.” We analyze the problems, difficulties and chances Black professionalathletes and sports authorities continue to face after the country’s numeration on race following the murder of George Floyd in2020 This is the 3rd installation of the series.
Each year this series starts with a concern: Is it still required? The address, sadly, is yes, as hate criminaloffenses continue to increase.
The response, regrettably, is yes, as we simply experienced the harsh attack on Tyre Nichols over a traffic stop leading to murder charges versus 5 cops officers.
I worry that hate will stay strong for some time. Maybe years or even years.
Yet there stays the remedy to hate and that remedy has existed for an eternity: it’s togetherness. This is corny, I understand, however I wear’t care. We might all usage a bit of corny these days.
This specific column, the opening salvo of 28 successive stories throughout the month of February, will focus on that togetherness and particularly serves as a tip of how 2 groups of individuals, Blacks and Jews, have constantly had each other’s backs, and requirement to onceagain. Especially after numerous unsightly and dissentious remarks from individuals like Ye and Kyrie Irving potentially exacerbated stress inbetween my neighborhood and the Jewish one.
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I desire to remind both neighborhoods, I desire to remind everybody, of how this nearness goes back years, with somebody you may not understand. Her name is Agnes Adachi and she is a Holocaust survivor.
Adachi supplied statement to the USC Shoah Foundation, which utilizes interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides as teachable minutes. Adachi was at