On Monday night, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker hosted a Zoom meeting for a few hundred people that brought together sports greats who have been outspoken about human rights. specifically, Black Lives Matter and racism in the United States.
Booker started with Caron Butler who spoke eloquently about the role of ethnicity as it pertains to the inequality of imprisonment. He spoke from the heart and he spoke from a point of recognition. Butler has been a product of the very system that unequally locks young men of color in solitary confinement with regularity. The one thing he says that got him through was “love.