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‘‘The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.’’ — George Bernard Shaw
He used to be one of ours. Even when he wasn’t one of us. We claimed him. Lifted him. Then something flipped. Something changed. He became someone we no longer knew or transformed into that someone we could no longer mess with.
So, as with all athletes who code-switch on whom we believed they once were, we God-bless them from afar.