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Johnny SmithJohnny Smith, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in “If The Warriors Want To Take a Stand, Go To the White House and Shake President Trump’s Hand” for Washington Post.
Excerpt:
“When people suggest there should be some separation between politics and sports, what they are really asking is for them to put their citizenship aside,” says John Smith, history professor at Georgia Tech and a co-author of “Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X.”
The suggestion here is not that the Warriors should set their citizenship or politics aside. Rather, that they make a declarative statement about the bright-line difference between dissent and contempt. Recently, Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, remarked that “the real problem in American politics today is not anger; it’s contempt. Contempt is the conviction of the worthlessness of another human being.”
For the full article, read here.
