“I Am More Than An Athlete:” How #blacklivesmatter Shattered the Basketball Bubble

All the elements of dystopia, the most terrifying genre of science fiction, are present in the Bubble. It was not strong enough to hold Black personhood within.

The Basketball Bubble has always reeked of unexamined science fiction, which generally is white supremacy projecting itself into the future. Doctors, nurses, engineers, construction works- all who shape the Earth to our…