Michele Roberts talked me out of …

Michele Roberts talked me out of figurative crime Tuesday. Every time I’ve watched “Do The Right Thing,” even as I understood why Mookie threw the trash can, I still thought he was wrong to do it. But I’d never wanted to throw the can myself. Now, I do. Good thing there was an adult on the phone. “You can end up feeling so helpless,” Roberts said from Orlando Tuesday, as she tried to convince the players who’ve empowered her as Executive Director of their union not to boycott playoff games this week, their anger at the latest shooting of a Black man by police officers – Jacob Blake, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the shooting happening in front of his three children – stirring them to do something, anything, to express their anger and frustration while stuck in the bubble.