When it comes to using his platform as a star NBA player for causes he believes in, Jaylen Brown has no illusions about the sort of friction it can cause him. But for Brown, speaking in a recent interview with the New York Times’ Sopan Deb, that friction is a worthwhile price to pay for the good he can do in his personal battle against inequality in education and society writ large.
The Boston Celtics star revealed that for all the work he and his peers in the league have done combatting structural and overt racism, he has seen little in the way of substantive change for Black Americans.
