Last week, pro athletes taught us a powerful lesson in social justice

var TRINITY_TTS_WP_CONFIG = {"cleanText":"Last week, pro athletes taught us a powerful lesson in social justice. Over the past week, as the airwaves filled with speeches from the Conservative Party of Canada\u2019s leadership race and the Republican National Convention in the United States, a little-known mother stood in front of microphones to make a speech. It was one that no speechwriter had polished, yet it was one that \u2013 in its powerful simplicity, devastating calm, and searing call for peace \u2013 shook those who heard it. Julia Jackson is the mother of Jacob Blake, who was shot in the back several times on August 23rd by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The 29-year-old Black man lies in hospital, his spinal cord shattered. But there stood Ms Jackson, in front of the media, and

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