Kieran Shannon: Hypocrisy and racism - the black American athlete is on a merrygoround that stops in the same place

SEEKING JUSTICE: Several thousand demonstrators gather in Oakland, California to protest over the death of George Floyd, who died last week after a police officer held him down by pressing a knee into his neck, provoking riots in many US cities and demonstrations across the world. Photo: AP Photo/Noah Berger

In 2006 a New York Times African-American sportswriter called William C Rhoden wrote a book on the experience and dilemma of the US black athlete with the eye-catching title Forty Million Dollar Slaves.