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I once saw Enes Kanter speak truth to power. Now he only punches down | Bryan Armen Graham

Nearly a decade after I watched him defy Erdoğan at great personal cost, the ex-NBA player is using his hard-won freedom to turn transgender people into a punchline Nine years ago, I watched Enes Kanter ask America to take him in . It was May 2017, inside the National Basketball Players Association’s offices in midtown Manhattan. Kanter had just returned from a frightening detention at Bucharest…

I once saw Enes Kanter speak truth to power. Now he only punches down | Bryan Armen Graham

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