adorocinema
  • 5 months ago
Transcript
00:00We're a league full of women who understand what's most important.
00:042020, we made a lot of noise.
00:06No justice.
00:08No peace.
00:09We absolutely want to dedicate our season to say her name in Black Lives Matter.
00:14This is like another opportunity, where if we're doing this together,
00:17it's just going to have greater power, it's going to go further.
00:21Our voices were more powerful than we ever imagined.
00:24There's no way that an owner like Kelly Loeffler is going to work in the WNBA.
00:28No one has asked politics to come into sports.
00:31When Kelly made her statement, it was very disheartening,
00:34knowing her role, owning a team that is predominantly Black women.
00:38It felt like the ultimate betrayal.
00:41These women, they're not afraid of a fight with a senator.
00:43Players are mad.
00:44How can you redirect that energy?
00:46What can I do? What's action-based?
00:49Raphael Warnock, he's running in her seat.
00:51Started researching him, because what do you stand for?
00:53It was really important that we hear him talk about these issues.
00:56They were laying it all on the line.
00:58Players wearing Vote Warnock shirts in support of voting against Senator Kelly Loeffler.
01:03This was a moment where it's bigger than basketball.
01:06You plan a scene and watch it grow.
01:09We will not stop. We will go hard.
01:11Once we started wearing those shirts, this campaign shot to the roof.
01:14The WNBA was standing together, and that was the most powerful message.
01:17It's in our fabric to see an injustice and want to step up for it.
01:22All odds are against you, but how do you find a way to win?