Black lives matter
Black tennis player Sloane Stephens won the recent US Open. She beat Venus Williams in the semi-final. She won on Arthur Ashe court, the first black American to win Wimbledon and the US Open.
These black lives matter. Which is not to say others appear to not matter. I am reminded that James Blake, whose progress as a tennis professional I followed for many years, was wrongly arrested and manhandled in New York city on the way to the US Open in 2015.
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