In seeking justice for Ahmaud Arbery, these athletes know the work has just begun

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Jesse Washington, ESPN's The Undefeated

"Another black life taken, another outpouring of anger and grief. But after all the tweets and hashtags have posted, after yet another avalanche of opinion columns and TV pundits reminding us of the racism baked into America, what does effective action look like? What can we actually do?

While the presence of a black prosecutor offers more hope for a fair trial, so many other killers have walked free. Shropshire, a professor and CEO of the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University, said it could exert a significant force at the Arbery legal proceedings if athletes for Atlanta’s pro sports teams attended some of them in person."

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