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May 28, 2020: The best thing I've read this week

5/28/2020

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I'm sad today. Incredibly sad. 

I'm sad because I have come to believe modern American society has resigned itself to racist horrors,  faux meritocracy and rampant corruption as "good enough." 

Another wave of police murdering black citizens has crashed upon us. A corrupt government filled with grifting ignoramuses who ascended to important positions for no other reason than their wealth is pillaging its citizenry. And, with 41 million Americans unemployed, institutions that are designed to serve - like higher education and journalism - are checking their bottom line and throwing more citizens to the pile. 

I sit in a place of relative privilege. That is not lost on me. But, I ache for my black friends, hurt for friends who have been and will continue to be laid off. And I continue to be scared over the seismic gap between those who have and those do not, as well as the disappearance of compromise, empathy and selflessness. 

The best thing I've read this week is a Twitter thread from Jessica Clarendon, who is the wife of an African-American WNBA player, Layshia Clarendon. 

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    Molly Yanity, Ph.D.
    Point Loma Nazarene College, B.A. '96
    Ohio University, M.S. '11, Ph.D. '13

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     2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer's Biggest Stage is available online and in hardback from Palgrave Macmillan. 

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    In 1996, American sportswomen had quite a summer. Dr. Yanity joins gold medalists Sue Bird, Julie Foudy,  Briana Scurry and others in this podcast hosted by Olympic champion Michelle Kwan to talk about the impact that "summer of gold" had. 
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