Ep. 61 - The Real Color in Sports 2.0 ft. Jasson Perez

BrownTown chops it up with Jasson Perez, activist, researcher,
and sports enthusiast, to talk all things sports post-COVID and
post-George Floyd uprisings. In this part two, the team speaks
candidly on sports organization's co-opt of Black Lives Matter,
the relationship between players and owners, polarization as a
strategy, and competing theories of social change. Originally
recorded November 2020. Following up on BrownTown's first
installment from 2017 focusing on the aftermath of Colin
Kaepernick's kneeling to protest police brutality, Jasson joins
to talk all things sports in the later half of 2020--post-COVID
and post-George Floyd uprisings. With multiple, interrelated
crises at the fore, the team speaks candidly on sports
organizations' co-optation of Black Lives Matter, the
relationship between players and owners, polarization as a
strategy, and competing theories of social change. Originally
recorded November 2020.


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Jasson Perez is a Senior Research Analyst at ACRE who studies the
connections between police violence, mass incarceration, and
economic injustice. Through his research, he works to create
campaigns to end mass incarceration and police violence and
demonstrate that the fight for democratic socialism must embrace
the politics of decarceration and abolition. Previously, at the
Cook Center on Social Equity, Jasson did research on the racial
wealth gap created by housing discrimination against Black
homebuyers. Before becoming a researcher Jasson was a lead
organizer for SEIU Local 73 and BYP100. When Jasson isn’t selling
his labor for sustenance, you can find him subpar rapping with
the rap group BBU, organizing with the Afro-Socialists &
Socialists of Color Caucus of DSA and learning how to write about
politics and economics in a manner that won’t bore you.


Topics mentioned include:


Naomi Osaka wears mask in memory of Breonna Taylor at US
Open

Maya Moore left WNBA to work on criminal justice

Barack Obama and The Role of the Black Bourgeoisie in
Coopting Our Movements

Brian Urlacher reacts to Jacob Blake and NBA strike, Bears
denounce

WNBA have been doing the work (1, 2, 3)



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AfroSocialists & Socialists of Color Caucus via Linktree,
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.


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CREDITS: Intro/outro soundbites from CNN and
Milwaukee Bucks set to music by Genta Tamashiro. Outro song I
Can't Breathe by Montana of 300. Audio engineered by Genta
Tamashiro. Episode photo by Jasson Perez.


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