The most insulting and reductive statement a ‘fan’ could ever utter to a black professional athlete is, “Hey, why don’t you just stick to [insert the athlete’s sport here]?” It’s a method of erasing a black person’s intrinsic humanity, because the ‘fan’ can’t be bothered to view them as anything other than their form of entertainment. Critics once told Jim Brown to stick to football. And Muhammad Ali to stick to...
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