Between nibbles of hot dogs or tofu skewers and swigs of beer, we should contemplate the illusion of our liberty, because we are not free until Brittney Griner is free.
The WNBA is easing into the midway point of the 2022 season, delineated by All-Star Weekend July 9-10 in Chicago. But the festivities celebrating the league's finest will be missing one of its biggest stars: Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17.
The most recent extension added another six months to the time she can expect to spend in a cell as her case moves into the trial phase, which began Friday in Moscow—three days before the July 4 holiday in the U.S. celebrating this nation's independence. As Americans enjoy the long weekend of summer fun with loved ones, Griner will be wading through a legal process in a country where she does not speak the language, through a legal system with which she is unfamiliar.
There is a damning ennui among those enjoying their constitutional guarantees to the fullest extent along racial, gender, and socio-economic lines, while leaving so many others with only a theoretical access to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou once put it,"Equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it.
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