David Steele

@dcsteele.bsky.social

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Author (It Was Always A Choice šŸ‘†šŸ¾), co-author (Silent Gesture, w/Tommie Smith āœŠšŸ¾), writer (Law360 āœšŸ¾), Terp šŸ¢

1970s scene from Match Game, with the host, his insanely long microphone and six zany celebrity contestants, including Charles Nelson Reilly
Three Stooges in the Curly cheese skit
Yul Brynner as Ramses in The Ten Commandments
Chuck Brown performing Bustin Loose
DR Congo supporter who replicates the Lumumba statue at World Cup games
JFKā€™s White House portrait
Spursā€™ Victor Wembanyama gesturing that he was in the Knicksā€™ heads during Game 4
From Idiocracy: the Maya Rudolph character in the future holds a $10 million bill with the motto ā€œHaulin Ass Gettin Paidā€
New York Giants coach John Harbaugh behind Donald Trump in the Oval Office (next to brother Jim Harbaugh, LA Chargers coach)
John Wall the hero celebrates on the scorerā€™s table
ā€œThey still hate you! They still hate you!ā€ - Screenshot of the Sgt. Waters character in A Soldierā€™s Story
ā€œSilent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smithā€ available at @bookshop.org
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (as portrayed by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffmann in All the Presidentā€™s Men)
NBA play-in game, end of third quarter, Magic 102 Hornets 71
Jackie Robinson poses for a handshake with Ben Chapman, who led the Phillies in spewing racist insults at him during a game and was forced to apologize, 1947
March Madness: Siena 22 Duke 16 11:27 first half
Kathy Bates character in Misery, about to administer ā€œhobblingā€ to James Caan
Brian Flores taking questions while he was head coach of the Miami Dolphins, before he was fired for not developing Tua enough
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists at the 1968 Olympics
Child crying at a basketball game
Saquon Barkley posing in the Oval Office with Trump before the Eagles Super Bowl champions visit
Nick Bosa wears a white MAGA cap while crashing an NBC Sunday Night Football postgame interview
Luxury box at Washington Commanders game this season: l-r Pete Hegseth, Trump, Commanders owner Josh Harris
X post by Lane Kiffin: two caps in LSU colors reading ā€œMake Baton Rouge Greatā€
NFL head coaches Jim and John Harbaugh (2nd and 3rd from the right) pose with Donald Trump in the Oval Office before the season
Minnesota Lynx players wearing Black Lives Matter shirts in protest of police shootings, 2016
Michael Corleone at the baptism scene in The Godfather
The Baltimore Orioles mascot with a very glum, perplexed expression on his face
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump
ā€œFiled to ESPN: Ex-NFLPA boss Lloyd Howell Jr.'s strip club expenses face scrutinyā€
Jon Gruden, who got fired four years ago because of his racist, misogynist and homophobic emails to NFL personnel and now is on the payroll of Barstool, posts that heā€™s on the campus of my Alma mater the University of Maryland
ā€œRavens coach John Harbaugh and Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh met Thursday with President Trump in the Oval Office, per a White House officialā€
Screenshot of Colin Kaepernickā€™s IG post after Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were murdered, began with: ā€œThis is what lynchings look like in 2016!ā€
Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrenceā€™s characters as old men in ā€œLifeā€
Crazy Knicks fan giving the L gesture (for loser)
@Dodgers: This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight's game will be played as scheduled.
Players taking a knee during the national anthem during the 2020 NBA playoffs, inside the covid bubble, during the social reckoning protests, wearing Black Lives Matter shirts on a court with Black Lives Matter printed on it
Golfer JJ Spaun
White children taunt and harass a Black girl walking in to the school building in Little Rock in 1957
Charmin toilet paperā€™s cartoon bear mascot, squeezing a package of rolls with the caption ā€œSoftness You Can Seeā€
State troopers attack civil rights marchers in Selma, 1965
Rosa Parks being booked by Montgomery police after refusing to leave her bus seat, 1955
Cover of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smithā€
A post on Facebook Stories from 2022 of the release of my book, ā€œIt Was Always a Choice: Picking Up The Baton of Athlete Activismā€ rendered as a cartoon by Meta AI, with Colin Kaepernick drawn as a wavy-haired white man and the subtitle and my name displayed as gibberish
Knicks super fan meme, doing ā€œLā€ finger gesture on forehead
Frances Tiafoe practicing tennis in a University of Maryland basketball jersey
ā€œStatement from the league: NEW YORK, May 18, 2025 - The following is a statement from the WNBA regarding yesterday's game in Indianapolis: "The WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate, and discrimination in all forms ā€” they have no place in our league or in society. We are aware of the allegations and are looking into the matter."ā€
Ravensā€™ Derrick Henry stiff-arms a Steelers tackler
John Wall in street clothes on the Wizards bench leaning back and staring up in exasperation, captioned ā€œBRUHā€
Meme of Jimmy Butler squinting at the stat sheet at courtside of an NBA game
Screenshot: QT says ā€œTo repeat:ā€ and original post says, ā€œKnicks Have One Playoff Game Without A Cartoonish Level Of Drama Challengeā€
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in their roles as Woodward and Bernstein in ā€œAll the Presidentā€™s Menā€
Screenshot of post: ā€œSovereignty beats Journalism. Sounds familiarā€
Chapter 6 of ā€œIt Was Always A Choice: Picking Up The Baton Of Athlete Activismā€ titled ā€œPeter Norman, Chris Long and Gregg Popovich: White Alliesā€
Devante Smith-Pelly of the Capitals raises the Stanley Cup and kisses it after winning it in 2018
Ch. 10 of ā€œIt Was Always A Choice: Picking Up The Baton Of Athlete Activism,ā€ titled ā€œStick To Sports And Enjoy Your White House Tripā€
Donald Trump and the Philadelphia Eaglesā€™ Saquon Barkley share a laugh at Trumpā€™s golf course
With 10:25 left in the second quarter the cavaliers lead the heat 45-17 in Game 4
Varietyā€™s X post on April 20: "Sinners" has amassed $61 million in its global debut. It's a great result for an original, R-rated horror film, yet the Warner Bros. release has a $90 million price tag before global marketing expenses, so profitability remains a ways away.