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	Podcast:		All In with Chris Hayes
	Episode:		BONUS: The Uneven Playing Field with Howard Bryant
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:57:21
	Publish Date:		2020-02-08 02:00:00
	Description:		Professional sports are never more than an inch away from the deepest core of what's happening in America. They are an amazing crucible of politics and culture that manage to reflect the issues we are working through as a country. And because these spaces are so integrated, particularly in football and basketball, racial politics quickly come to the foreground. This is the intersection Howard Bryant examines in his new book "Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field". In it, he explores what it means to be black in an industry hostile to blackness. Why isn't Colin Kaepernick playing in the NFL, why do football games have military flyovers, and when do opinions become dangerous? What is happening with the Houston Astros cheating scandal? And why should non-sports fans care about what happens to players with multi-million-dollar contracts? Bryant has the answers. Subscribe to Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes now: https://link.chtbl.com/cNMwXv_A?sid=partners RELATED READING: Full Dissidence by Howard Bryant Twilight of the Elites by Chris Hayes
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