This article was started over a week ago, at a time Charlotte was the latest city to be enveloped by the dark shroud of social injustice.
It feels a bit inappropriate writing this at the moment. I’ve spent my morning reading tweet after tweet about a protester in Charlotte being killed by police in a week of just mind-boggling police violence against unarmed black men. Basketball seems so insignificant at the moment — yet it is the main thing that takes my mind off of the political and cultural war that is unfolding around us. I’m not sure that it is good to be distracted because of the gravity of the situation America finds itself in, but sometimes I need something to diffuse my anger and disgust over how we have systematically failed our citizens on so many levels creating this current sense of hopelessness.