Cheers to Martina Navratilova:

“We complain about Boko Haram taking the girls in Nigeria, and here we are doing it to these women and men.”

July 9, 2018 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

Cheers to Martina Navratilova, one of the top tennis players of all time and the top-ranked woman player during most of the 1970s and ’80s, for calling out America’s crimes on the border. Here is what she told the New York Times in a retrospective on her July 7, 1978 victory at Wimbledon, her first major title:

What’s happening at those detention centers in Texas is unconscionable, just beyond belief. All these people who are lying through their teeth, saying, “The kids are O.K.—it’s like summer camp.” I’m like, “Are you kidding me?”

We complain about Boko Haram taking the girls in Nigeria, and here we are doing it to these women and men. And the kids are marked for life. Some will never be reunited. Some parents will never know what happened to their kid.