Something that Bomani lightly touched on that I find fascinating about this is how bad must have it been for the football players to even get involved in the first place when:
A) because of adoration and isolation, these issues typically don't affect them
B) football players notoriously fit the "dumb jock" monnicker bestowed on athletes (black ones in particular)
I read that they met with Butler, but I'm curious about what that conversation was truly like... How much convincing did it really take? My theory is that the events after Ferguson really woke up a lot of black people (myself included, at 27 years old) just like Katrina woke up a lot of people who are in their thirties now...
Me too because sometimes college athletes dont want to get involved in these situations