I've been waiting 3 years for someone in the public eye to say something, anything at all, about young African-American men with Arabic names. The anti-Arabism, the viciousness and bigotry that infected common people in the US - by October 2001 I was wondering who would. No one ever did.
This is the first public voice, that I've seen or heard, to even refer to it. All those mothers with hope for change to come, all those fathers remembering Ali in '63. Kareem.
Large props to Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds, and the spirit of freedom and athletic pride they share with a lot of others, including the World Champion Boston Red Sox.
