Perspective: Tony Dungy’s galling words show again that sports can be, has been and often continues to be an agent for the opposite of which it is celebrated — regression, not progress.
, David Gunn, at a rally the summer before Gunn was assassinated in 1993, shot three times in the back outside his Florida clinic. And Trump did what antiabortion Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush before him were fearful of doing because of the event’s extremist undercurrents:Yet Dungy went ahead with his speaking engagement, using his athletic celebrity coupled with his religiosity as deodorant for a theme of intolerance.
He tweeted his original mea culpa Wednesday. It read: “I saw a tweet [Tuesday] and I responded to it in the wrong way. As a Christian I should speak in love and in ways that are caring and helpful. I failed to do that and I am deeply sorry.”I’m not certain what “responded to it in the wrong way” means. But it didn’t stop Dungy from accepting his moment to stand before anti-abortionists on a podium frequented by white supremacists and zealots.
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