Now you remember that shooting led to MBA players.

Shutting down play for three days is a form of protest.

Also, the MBA and MLB also postponed some of their games.

So last night, LeBron James was among the players you were asked about further social causes.

In response to this decision all over America, as you've seen, we've been able to do since the summer time all the way up until today s.

Oh, we're gonna continue to keep our foot on the gas, continue to keep our foot, keep the pressure on going on how we continue to create change.

And, like I said, it create change for, you know, the black community, but also just create change for the greater good way.

Looking forward, thio seem ways we can do and what we could do on forward.

It's disheartening.

Um, truly it's disheartening just for all the work that that everybody put in, Um, all the you know, just the heartache of the families involved.

You know, kids involved in the car, the city that rallied around in the community that I mean, it's just about right and wrong.

I mean, and and But, you know, this isn't gonna be something that it can't deter.

You know, those those citizens who we're trying to do, right?

We're trying to fight for equality.

We're trying to fight for the right things.

Dominic Fox worth here with us now, And we know that these athletes have really been using their platforms in such huge ways off the court as it pertains to social Justice.

Dominique, what do you think that these players are going to do?

Like, what is good?

The impact going to be in response to the Blake decision And how do they move forward?

Yeah, I mean, it seems like LeBron suggesting and, um, Wesley Matthews suggesting mawr of the same, which I think is surprising, given that the same hasn't warranted the results that they would have wanted and in some key cases, especially this most recent one.

So I would be I would be surprised if they stopped like I don't expect them to fall back.

But I would be I would not be surprised if they stepped it up a little bit and they weren't afraid to put basketball on hold while they were in the bubble in order to draw attention to this particular case.

And the results were still not what they wanted, so I'm not sure what the next step is.

But I think logic would suggest that what they have done up until now I mean, it's hard to say that it's been all that effective, and I know that they want to see some results, and uh huh, getting I think the first step is always kind of like We want to draw people's attention to this injustice and then once the rest of the world, or at least the rest of this country or people who are unfamiliar with these things, they're taking place.

Once they see it, then they'll understand and they'll work with us to do the right thing.

It feels like it hasn't happened, so I'm not sure if I'm in that situation, which I'm not.

I don't will the same power as LeBron James or any of those players in the NBA, but if you've seen that once you draw people's attention to it that it feels like the results are still gonna be the same.

What's the next step there?

I'm not sure what it is, but I'd be surprised if they don't AMP it up.

Like if putting basketball in the hold in the bubble wasn't enough, Thio bring about charges in this situ situation.

I'm not sure that it's out of the question that they might go do something like that again.

I know it feels far fetched, but if something like this bubbles up again, I think we've gotten to a point where there is.

It went from being surprised and impressed that these athletes have been carrying the mantle of Paul Robeson and Mohammed Ali to starting to feel like it's an expectation.

So, God forbid something like this happens again.

There's another police involved shooting that looks suspicious with a black person.

We're gonna come to the N, B.

A and the NBA players in professional athletes across the country and ask them what they have to say and ask them what they're going to do because they've created that expectation.

As unfair as it is to expect that, frankly, any black person to fix, um to address problems that they didn't create like that's incredibly unfair.

It's even more unfair to ask these athletes to fix problems that they didn't create and that they are on the wrong end of in many cases.

I think that's where we are as a country, sadly, that we look to them for that type of engagement, So I'm not sure exactly what's next.

I know that they are going to give up, and I suspect that will continue to support them when they do these things.

But if you keep doing these same things and you don't get the results that you expect this Onley logical to assume that they might want to try a different tact.

Well, how is it going to affect the sports world?

Don't be surprised, Dominic Dominic organized right?

That's what LeBron has done.

These are not just a motive.

Issues where everyone gets, you know, emotional and then you don't get the result you want.

Or maybe you do, and then everyone goes away.

No, there is a method here.

There is an organizational, a component to what's going on in sports.

Now that I think is different than what we've seen in the past and LeBron James is an enormous part of that, by the way, because look narrowly.

What is this about?

This is about the kind of uneven strength of police unions.

Right?

So police unions are very powerful in this country, and they resist, um, they resist, uh, you know, uh, measures to reform and all that kind of stuff.

But more broadly, this is about black lives matter.

Because the fact is, for most of this country's history, among much of white America, black lives don't matter.

There's a very high threshold for dead black people.

Let's be honest.

That's what, in a broader sense, this is about.

And if you want to know what organization can do look, athletes, you know, shut up in dribble, right?

No, no.

Athletes are saying no, no.

You wanna watch us play sports an area of society where many black people were for a long time, relegated to entertainment, right?

You're allowed to succeed there, but maybe not in other areas.

You want us?

T just dribble.

No, we're not going to shut up.

And sometimes we might not even play.

How do you like that?