Dave Zirin: This is not about Whelan or Viktor Bout. It’s about a section of this country that looks at a Black queer woman from Texas and doesn’t see an American but sees an “other.'
and you don’t need to be the Rev. Al Sharpton to see the racist poison that Trump is selling to his base. She is one of— a spoiled, Black athlete who has raised the issue of systemic racism and, in Trump’s racist worldview, needs to be brought to heel.
The right’s inability to celebrate Griner’s return is more evidence that we live in a country so divided that even bringing a captured American home weeks before Christmas, is fodder for more rage. It seems simple to me. A person can be upset that the U.S. did not secure the release of Paul Whelan, a former Marine held prisoner by Russia, and still be happy for Griner’s release
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