OAKLAND -- Racism in America is surging these days and no one is immune to the crimes it breeds, much less the routine social injustice. Its evil hands have touched, in the past five days, public transit in Oregon, a museum in our nation’s capital and the relatively insular world of sports.
Not just sports, but one of its biggest stars.
LeBron James, conceivably the biggest name in American sport, and surely among the wealthiest, is the latest victim of the relatively recent wave of antipathy rooted in race or ethnicity or religion.
He is black, after all, so he is a target.