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    The Right’s Brittney Griner Obsession

    Black athletes who bridge sports and social justice have always found themselves targeted by pundits for voicing dissatisfaction with the status quo.
    by Danté Stewart Sep 10, 2022 3 minutes
    Source: The Washington Post / Getty; The Atlantic

    Brittney Griner is still detained in Russia. The WNBA star has now been imprisoned for 205 long days.

    In August, Griner was found guilty of drug possession and smuggling for traveling with less than a gram of cannabis oil, and sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony. During her trial, lawyers argued that she had a medical note for the cannabis oil, but it did no good. Ironically, this is the same country that found a loophole in the legal to bring cannabis and—check this—even cocaine and heroin into the country, if they provided the proper paperwork.

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