THINGS THAT MAKE WHITE PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE
By Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
220 pp. Haymarket Books. $24.95.
Part of the mythology of sports, according to Michael Bennett, the Super Bowl champion defensive end, is that sports make society more equal. “That’s miseducation,” he writes in “Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.” “The only thing that’s going to make us equal isn’t sports. It’s going to be people realizing we’re all human.”
One of the raging debates of our times centers on social justice — and, in particular, the political views of athletes in the age of President Trump.