Erika D. Smith: Even with a Super Bowl, why must the NFL make it so hard to be Black and a fan?
by Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times
Feb 11, 2022
4 minutes
When you grow up in the Midwest, you grow up liking football. Or at least appreciating it.
You have no choice.
Some of my most potent memories as a lazy teenager involve being awakened by my mother screaming at the TV over some NFL game. Usually it had to do with the Cleveland Browns finding yet another creative way to blow a double-digit lead and lose. (Some things never change.)
A decade later, I remember walking through downtown on my lunch break and coming upon a pep rally with a high school marching band. That day, I soon found
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