Jason Heyward doesn’t only think it’s “OK” to live in the anger of this moment in history.
“I think it’s necessary as well,” the Cubs outfielder said during NBC Sports Chicago’s ‘Race in America’ round table this week. “I think we need to have that chip on our shoulder, and we’ve got to use that as motivation to get this right, to keep pushing for it needing to be right.”
Heyward was one of four influential Black athletes who joined Laurence Holmes for ‘Race in America: A candid conversation.’ Holmes hosted a powerful discussion on the personal experiences of Heyward, Sam Acho, Allen Robinson and Thaddeus Young, in the wake George Floyd’s death and a surge of protests calling for police reform and social justice.