A white reporter who covers the Golden State Warriors was caught on tape stealing a security staffer’s jacket. It isn’t debatable. It happened. Several news outlets have seen the tape and confirmed that Mike Shumann, a sports anchor for KGO-TV ABC7 in San Francisco, picked up the jacket, which didn’t belong to him, and walked out of the AT&T Center.

Mike Shumann is white. He’s also a former wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers and has worked covering sports for some time. The majority of the Golden State Warriors players are black. Shumann has barely been punished. The Warriors players aren’t cool with this, The Athletic reports.

What’s a play here, is what’s always a play when something happens: Race. We can’t avoid it or act like in Trump’s America situations don’t always end up being weight on an uneven racial scale. In fact, if you’re black and reading this then you’ve already thunk it; had Shumann been black….

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