Why the world of professional sports embraced BLM, by zakcheneyrice
September 1, 2016, in San Diego, California: Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers kneel on the sideline during national anthem, as free agent Nate Boyer stands, before the game with the San Diego Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium. Photo: Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images Unless you know what to look for, it’s not clear why the photo is notable, let alone historic. It shows a football field, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, before the start of a game.
A paradox of professional athletics is how mastery over one’s body facilitates its surrender. Few jobs call for such exhaustive submission to the dominion of other people. Players spend years fine-tuning muscles most people don’t even know exist, breaking them down and rebuilding them to perform astonishing feats under duress, only to realize that autonomy is an illusion.
Variations on this theme echoed across sports. In women’s athletics, it often materialized in disputes over equal pay. The killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in 2014 came months into an intensifying debate about WNBA players flying overseas for money. Brittney Griner, it was reported, earned 12 times more to play in a Chinese league during the WNBA’s off-season than she received during her entire rookie campaign with the Phoenix Mercury.
All of these conflicts dealt with a basic question — how athletes might take greater control of the way their bodies are used — that was coming into focus for the players long before the misuse and abuse of human bodies became a national fixation. And for many, these concerns would only get more entwined. When NBA players initiated a wildcat strike during the COVID-disrupted homestretch of the 2020 season, it was nominally about getting more league support for that summer’s protests.
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