Running Against Injustice

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I was disappointed, but not surprised, at the news that Sha’Carri Richardson was suspended from the Olympics just because of a positive cannabis test. This was one more story in a long history of inequality of opportunity at the event which is supposed to unite us all — the Olympic Games. My own family was part of that history, and there is more that remains to be written. That was Abe Kiviat, cousin of my grandfather Isadore Kiviat. (I’ve…