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Atlanta Hawks Trae Young not Afraid to Fight against Police Brutality and Racial Injustice

By Yakiri Thomas / June 11, 2020

It’s been awhile since we seen Ice Trae in action on the court inside of State Farm Arena.

Atlanta Hawks v 76ers on Oct 28, 2019 at Star Farm Arena. Photo Courtesy Of Carlita Duran

 


As previously reported, the Hawks was among the eight teams that will not be heading to Orlando when the season restarts in July with the 2020-21 NBA regular season likely beginning on Dec. 1, 2020.

While the NBA’s resumption plan did not include the Hawks, we saw a glimpse of Young participating in a Oklahoma summer league game.

We also saw social media posts of Young peacefully protesting with his sister Caitlyn,  police brutality, racial injustice, and George Floyd’s death, in his hometown of Oklahoma.


On Wednesday Young spoke to the media via Zoom conference call and spoke on a range of topics but the question I had to ask was, “Trae we saw you protesting in Oklahoma how important to you was  it to Fight against Police Brutality and Racial Injustice.

“For me this is a very important time. Not only me but this world right now. It’s a crazy time. —I thought it was important for me to go out and show my face. I think there was a responsibility for me to speak up, especially through a time like this.”

Young also credited his sister and shared what she did to help him speak out.

“She is heavily involved with everything going on. She is very educated on what is going on and for everyone in my family we all are going to keep it real with you and for her she was getting Interviews after the protest. She was keeping it real and for me I was just proud to be her big brother.”

As far as having restless, sleepless nights after losing social media followers.

“I definitely lost a couple of followers for speaking my voice and speaking my opinion,” Young said. “That’s OK. That’s necessary.”

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