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How Chris George fights racism in the game with Bay Street strategy

If the way racism affected you in the moment wasn’t always clear, what’s it been like to cast back and see things in a different light? One [instance] I remember very clearly: it was after George Floyd, [an unarmed Black man, was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020], after the HDA had had some success. I was sitting down with some of my former teammates from the OHL. I won’t use names, but these are just great friends, 30-year relationships, and we were talking about our time in the OHL. I mentioned something about how a coach did not have a problem with me and all three of them — like the record skipped — and they looked at me like, “What are you talking about?” All three of them said, “I remember when I was a 16-year-old boy and my dad asked, ‘Why does the coach treat Georgie like that?’” And I didn’t realize it; I don’t think my dad was aware of it. That was just my reality. But now, as a 45-year-old man, my colleagues and peers and friends are like, “Ye...