Well the NBA and NHLs attempted and intended message had an impact on at least one fan and I’d like to believe the majority of people have done, or plan to do something similar.
I took this short pause by the NHL and NBA as a perfect opportunity to have a deeper talk with the wife and two pre-teen daughters than we ever had before. I brought up what’s happening and reinforced what our family’s beliefs and stance are regarding some of the atrocities at hand. As expected, everyone vehemently agreed ithat the colour of someone’s skin or gender has never and will never have any bearing on how we think towards and/or treat anyone.
There is absolutely incredible people to horribly evil people and everything in between of every skin colour on the planet so just think of the possible missed opportunities to meet greatness or positive impacts on your life because you disregarded someone based on their skin colour. It just makes no sense.
I also let them know that if they are ever hanging out with friends and someone makes a joke about or says something racist or sexist that they have the power to tell that person how they feel and won’t put up with that garbage.
So to those saying “what’s the point to this?”, I think that kinda stuff is part of it.
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