Somewhat unbelievably, we find ourselves one week from real, live Notre Dame regular season football. This time of year usually brings with it a truly singular state of mind โ fall Saturdays are unmatched in their ability to synthesize collective joy, bursts of gleeful schadenfreude, and stomach-curdling bouts of anxiety into one imperfect, madcap, downright enchanting emotional stew.
This deeply flawed sport is frequently sublime. But the coming season feels like something different entirely. This year, the emotional scale has tilted almost entirely towards stomach-curdling anxiety. American leadership has, not by accident, done a piss-poor job reigning in a virus that has disproportionately affected people of color and the vulnerable among us. Sports are the reward of a functioning society , and many elected officials have shown little to no interest in meeting that standard.
As football season approached, this left us thinkingโฆwhere do we go from here? Bottom line, though, we love Notre Dame football deeply, to an almost inexplicable degree. It is, quite literally, the least we can do. Do we actually think the output generated for the sake of this blog is worth asking you to pony up for? We pay the domain fees, you click and read and go on with your day, fine by us. We appreciate that our readership and the broader community is invested in social justice and holding Notre Dame accountable on providing a safer, more inclusive environment, and this will continue to inform the work as we move forward with this dumb little college football blog.
BLM-South Bend seeks social, economic, environmental, political, and legal justice for all people of the African Diaspora in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan, the area known as the Michiana region.
We believe that no one is free until Black people are free, because Black people have been personally and systematically deprived of power and it is our duty to reclaim it for ourselves. In doing so, everyone is liberated from systems of oppressive domination.
