What I see in the Mission’s sports riots, like many sports-related riots around the world, is that they come to reflect the inchoate but sincere politics of the disenfranchised classes of society as night goes on. The tagging, while still triumphant about the team, takes on new elements. The names of the wrongfully dead start showing up. The exploitative class is condemned and threatened — banks in 2012, tech workers in 2014, and always, ever always, the police. That all of this gets attached to a team baffles people, but in talking to the fans on the street and watching them, it makes sense — for many of these people their San Francisco, along with their future, has been taken away. Their ambitions and dreams have been diminished progressively, set beyond their reach. But no one can take away their Giants. When their Giants do well they have a moment when they can feel strong again, feel like they have power, even if only for a night. And what a night they make it.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:31:24 +0000
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