Professional sports have become more and more global than ever before with many athletes from across the world participating in major pro sports leagues in the U.S. and other countries. Africans born in the U.S. and throughout the diaspora have faced discrimination and bigotry since the inception of white supremacy and it reared its ugly head on soccer fields repeatedly in 2023. As the great Malcolm X said, “Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn’t make them biscuits.” All Africans of the African diaspora are African regardless of where they were born or “grew up”.