Martina Navratilova’s voice was rising, inching higher and more animated with each word, each thought. She apologized for sounding so emotional, but she couldn’t help herself.
“What’s happening at those detention centers in Texas is unconscionable, just beyond belief,” said Navratilova, the top-ranked woman in tennis for much of the 1970s and ’80s. “All these people who are lying through their teeth, saying, ‘The kids are O.K. — it’s like summer camp.’ I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’
“We complain about Boko Haram taking the girls in Nigeria, and here we are doing it to these women and men.