Midday open thread: Serena Williams, Chelsea Manning, and Joe Paterno

Howard Stern on Joe Paterno

Tuesday Jul 12, 2016 12:01 PM PDT

2016/07/12 12:01

Teachers who build supportive atmospheres "[allow] students to get to know one another across differences," Cappella says. "And when you get to know each other across differences, you see other kinds of similarities that may be more hidden as well."

The importance of Serena"s victory and her sixth Wimbledon doubles championship win with her sister Venus is intimately connected with the week of trauma and the fact that cries of black lives matter currently ring out in the streets. Those cries are a demand for justice, yes, and that demand is inspirational to anyone who believes in said justice. But theyre also rooted in a fear that a better tomorrow may never come, and in terror and grief over the present cavalcade of images of dead black bodies. Saturday was a rare instance in which a sporting event was transfigured into something more, a symbolic victory that both helped assuage trauma and provided real hope. No living athleteperhaps of any gender or in any sporthas represented the spirit of that hope more than Serena.

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Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/12/1547509/-Midday-open-thread-Serena-Williams-Chelsea-Manning-and-Joe-Paterno