CNN’s K-Files Features Abdul El-Sayed Linking the ‘Ethos of Football’ to America’s History of Slavery in 2023 Podcast

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EL-SAYED: "You think about all the wars that we fight abroad, all of the sordid history of oppressing other people in the name of this American idea, right, whether it was 'manifest destiny' and destroying Native Americans, or it was the transatlantic slave trade where, you know, folks who 'founded this country' on the backs of of native folks that they destroyed, then captured people, enslaved them and had them work their fields because they thought it was their right, right? And all of this, like, a lot of these narratives, you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football."