The following Saturday, November 30, was the Division 5 championship game held at Ford Field in Detroit. Where else are we allowed the space to say we disagree with our police? Where else can we register with one gesture, dissent with the alleged ideals of this country? America is getting called out with this one gesture and they are determined to punish anyone using it.” In no other element of our culture is there such a clear and defiant single gesture like taking a knee. The kneeling gesture is ‘the signal’ and the reason why it’s ‘the signal’ is because it’s the spot where America comes apart, where all the post-9/11 pro-police messaging and militarism at sporting events collides with the reality of the cops and military.
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Howard Bryant, senior writer at ESPN and author of the new book Full Dissidence: Notes From An Uneven Playing Field, said to me, “This was a moment where sports was co-opted from a place of player expression to one of disciplining players for their politics. A knee is often not even required for people to feel like a a high school game is the proper place to bleat their bigotry, but it certainly on more than one occasion has been a highly flammable accelerant.
This has been a feature of the Trump era: sporting events used as a place to spew racist derision at opposing teams. They never should have been here in the first place.’”Īfter the game there were scuffles as Denby left the field, as more debris was tossed from the stands.ĭenby counselor Bob Burg wrote on Facebook that as the game was coming to a close, “One of our young men was punched in the face by an Almont parent! After we were able to get our kids in a safe area they locked us all in a caged area in the corner of the field, when we just wanted to get the kids safely on our bus.” They called my student trainer a little monkey and they were saying: ‘Who let them off their leashes? They need to be on a leash. They were throwing food, cups, and whatever…. He also said that the white coaches on Denby’s sideline were called “wiggers” and that “grown men and women started spitting on our kids as they walked up the ramp.
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