When Jamie Lee Curtis heard that professional athletes refused to play in protest, in this case due to racial injustice, she was touched.
NBA playoff game against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. The move prompted players in the WNBA, the MLB and the MLS to take the day off too. (The NFL didn’t have any games scheduled but canceled practices.) It’s all similar to the plot of Curtis’s 1987 movie Amazing Grace and Chuck, the story of a Little League player (Chuck) who refuses to throw again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. He is soon joined by a basketball player, “Amazing Grace” Smith, played by former basketball pro Alex English. Together, the two form a movement where children around the world refuse to speak until they win over others. “Data-reactid =” 24 “> The Milwaukee Bucks players decided to boycott the team’s NBA playoff game against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. also prompted WNBA, MLB and MLS players to take a day off (NFL had no games scheduled but canceled practice). Similar to Curtis’ 1987 movie plot Amazing Grace and Chuck, the story of a Little League player (Chuck) who refuses to throw again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. He is soon joined by a basketball player, “Amazing Grace” Smith, played by former basketball pro Alex English. Together, the two form a movement where children all over the world refuse to speak until they conquer others.
“Visions take time to manifest their destiny,” Curtis said. “Think of all the brave and daring ideas that started with a human being saying nothing else. Let’s continue this today. Together we can change the world. “
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Dreams come true. Visions take time to manifest their destiny. Think of all the brave and bold ideas that started with a human being saying nothing else. Let’s continue this today. Together we can change the world. #ColinKaepernick @GretaThunberg pic.twitter.com/89UmCvSAp0– Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) August 27, 2020
The movie trailer includes the now prescient phrase: “Maybe someday this story will be true.”
Curtis added a longer note, explaining his opinion on the sports boycott. “They are saying, as the characters in the film said years ago, we are human beings. We will no longer entertain you and with our silence, we will sanction something that we will no longer endure as if we were helpless, ”he said. “We are not helpless.”
Curtis concluded her comment by calling the protests the kind of “good trouble” encouraged by late US Representative John Lewis.
“The boycott lasted quite a while in the film,” Curtis said. “Can this boycott last? Can athletes from all other sports participate? Can this cross racial boundaries? “
NBA players voted Thursday morning to resume games Friday or Saturday." data-reactid="40">Though the long-term effect of boycotts in real life wasn’t clear, Yahoo Sports reported Thursday that NBA players voted Thursday morning to resume games on Friday or Saturday.
