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Dr. Harry Edwards Discusses Athletes Making An Impact With Their Platforms | The Arena

Civil Rights activist and sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards reflects on the importance of athletes using their platforms for social change.

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  1. I’m Legit Subbbing To Everyone Who Subbs To Me

    January 18, 2021 at 4:00 pm

    *To the Early Squad Reading This: sending Virtual hugs to everyone who reads Always stay safe read my name btw ✂️***

  2. PESI N’Aksion

    January 18, 2021 at 4:00 pm

    1

  3. Jku Pham

    January 18, 2021 at 4:01 pm

    Literally 99% wont see this but god bless u stay safe im struggling to get 1k with notis ❤️

  4. jcp2017

    January 18, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    Let’s be real it doesn’t make that much of an impact unless they physically act on their words off the court the way that us regular people do by protesting in the streets and actually working towards change. Putting Black Lives Matter on the bubble court and kneeling during the national anthem didn’t do anything productive.

    • Phildillrides

      January 18, 2021 at 4:04 pm

      Yep, they’re just trying to fit in. I guarantee they payed the players to kneel. Luka and Kawhi for example we still don’t know their sides on this.

    • Jackson Sandell

      January 18, 2021 at 4:12 pm

      @Phildillrides oh look i found the racist

    • jesse fay

      January 18, 2021 at 4:14 pm

      @Jackson Sandell look a racist calling someone a “racist”. It never gets old.

  5. nikki Giannopoulos

    January 18, 2021 at 4:03 pm

    I QUIT WATCHING THE NBA. NO ATHLETE IS GONNA TELL ME WHO TO VOTE FOR.

    • katmore9

      January 18, 2021 at 4:15 pm

      Good riddance. No one cares if you decided to stop watching.

    • Niccolo Makiavelli

      January 18, 2021 at 4:21 pm

      No athlete , nobody should tell you !!! Shape your own opinion !!!

    • Eazy Duz it

      January 18, 2021 at 6:43 pm

      Karen who cares what u watch equality is beating hate like you extremely well go have fun with your trump clowns

  6. Help me reach 100kSub With No Videos

    January 18, 2021 at 4:04 pm

    Such a great speaker!

  7. Von Doromal

    January 18, 2021 at 4:08 pm

    The Guaranteed Minimum Income was MLK’s advocacy before he was assassinated. Andrew Yang is now carrying that mantle and running with that vision. Now, Martin Luther King III is the co-chair for Andrew Yang’s mayoral campaign. #YangforNY
    UBI is what we need to #movehumanityforward

    • Tora Chan

      January 18, 2021 at 5:43 pm

      @Von Doromal charity should never be forced. I don’t want to work hard to finance the lifestyle of a lazy and incompetent person

    • Von Doromal

      January 18, 2021 at 6:07 pm

      @Tora Chan it’s not charity when everyone is getting it. I hope you are familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. UBI is the lifting up of society. UBI is investment into communities devastated by automation and bad trades by corporation. UBI stimulates job creation and entrepreneurship. UBI improves mental health. UBI transforms US from the mindset of scarcity to a mindset of Abundance. UBI removes means testing with “Social Safety Net”.

      Quick question: what would you do with an extra, let’s say, $1,000 a month? I am sure you will not be lazy. I am sure you will provide for your family the way you need to. I have faith in you to do the best for yourself and your family. UBI is the way we help ourselves to be our brother’s keeper.
      Faith in people and faith in humanity!!!

      Please go though the whole interview.

    • jesse fay

      January 18, 2021 at 6:19 pm

      @Von Doromal this countries welfare system is more than generous not to mention were over 20 trillion in debt. Stop invoking MLK to push your communist agenda.

    • Von Doromal

      January 18, 2021 at 6:38 pm

      @jesse fay Read MLK’s last book “Chaos or Community” before you begin to call me a communist. McCarthyism is dead. All about pragmatism. We must do better for ourselves and our community.
      After reading the book “Chaos or Community” you might want to call MLK a communist…

      The welfare system is designed to keep US poor and dependent.
      My opinion: we should abolish it and give everyone UBI.

    • jesse fay

      January 18, 2021 at 6:47 pm

      @Von Doromalabolish welfare and give UBI instead? They’d call you racist most likely. Would well off white people get 1k a month while a single woman of color got the same amount? I’m no fan of exchanging our bloated welfare system with a bloated UBI one. Welfare should already be slashed but they’ll cry racism.

  8. qwe0610

    January 18, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    Thank you for educating me!

    • Yoshi SBX

      January 18, 2021 at 4:13 pm

      Facts!

    • GC Basic

      January 18, 2021 at 4:22 pm

      +1. The footage and images are so unbelievably powerful.

    • Eazy Duz it

      January 18, 2021 at 6:44 pm

      Thanks for listening 👍🏾

  9. Yoshi SBX

    January 18, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    ❤️🖤💚

  10. Dávid Zsebi

    January 18, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    yeah… let priviliged elite basketball players tell us what to do …

    • Daimon Mario Perez

      January 18, 2021 at 4:59 pm

      There you go. Knocking the real message behind the words. 🤔 Smh…

    • Tora Chan

      January 18, 2021 at 5:42 pm

      @Daimon Mario Perez what’s “the real message”? That America is racist and bad, as told to us be millionaire black athletes?

  11. Tora Chan

    January 18, 2021 at 4:26 pm

    Athletes can “make an impact with their platforms” as long as it’s the social acceptable ones.

    Look at what happened to Drew Brees. Athletes are only allowed to parrot the “America bad, America racist” sentiment or you get silenced.

    Stop it.

    • Eazy Duz it

      January 18, 2021 at 6:41 pm

      Smh Drew brees was wrong and cleaned it up and opened his eyes and finally listened and earned the respect back no clue what your saying

  12. LVL 9 J

    January 18, 2021 at 4:30 pm

    “Their fortunes” pans to WNBA. That’s some mean editing

    • Lakers In 5

      January 18, 2021 at 5:12 pm

      You don’t miss a thing huh 😆

  13. Art Vandelay

    January 18, 2021 at 4:31 pm

    2:37 it’s a shame when this picture is brought up, they never mention Peter Norman. An Australian who got second place and lost his career for supporting racial equality.

    • Lakers In 5

      January 18, 2021 at 5:13 pm

      I’ll google it 👍

    • Art Vandelay

      January 18, 2021 at 5:33 pm

      @Lakers In 5 here’s a link.

    • qwe0610

      January 18, 2021 at 6:46 pm

      ​@Art Vandelay ​ Thank you, too, for educating me. Just gut-wrenching to learn about this, but also hopeful to see such sacrificing solidarity. Though it was after Norman’s time, I’m glad to see Australia acknowledge their mistake.

  14. Luke Green

    January 18, 2021 at 4:33 pm

    His voice sounds like honey butter dipped in vanilla and a drop of mollases

  15. fantasy hiphop

    January 18, 2021 at 4:34 pm

    Man he is the most fashionable old man I’ve ever seen

  16. Evbone 555

    January 18, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    Terrorist organization*

  17. King JappyJoe

    January 18, 2021 at 5:09 pm

    Dribble

  18. Lakers In 5

    January 18, 2021 at 5:11 pm

    It’s a cold world, bundle up.

  19. John Rogers

    January 18, 2021 at 5:36 pm

    👑💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  20. David Yen Jr

    January 18, 2021 at 6:01 pm

    Agreed and well said Dr. Harry Edwards.

  21. Eazy Duz it

    January 18, 2021 at 6:38 pm

    Jim Brown forgot

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