Before the game, Wainwright and manager Mike Shildt (in a BLM T-Shirt) shared plans that the Cardinals unified as a team would kneel before (but not during) the national anthem. As the team lined up before the game, a few players and Shildt indeed began to kneel, but the anthem singer was announced too quickly by the public address announcer. Everyone stood back up for the song.

But there were other forms of activism by the Cardinals on this historic night (and not just because the team played a home game without any fans). After wearing the T-Shirts, they wore Black Lives Matter patches on their famous home white uniforms. BLM was stenciled behind the mound, seen during every pitch on the Fox Sports Midwest telecast. And between innings Friday night, the teams official Twitter account tweeted: We are united in the fight to end systemic racism.

And that will be a process in our country. In our city. But as Wainwright said, It starts with one family at a time.

Some people, if they see somebody different, theyre going to discriminate against them, Wainwright said. And thats just theres something in the fabric of humanity thats been there for thousands and thousands of years that we still got to work through. But you know what, were talking about it now and were trying to get past it.

All I can do is love my kids and lead them and shepherd them in such a way as when they go out into the world, they embrace everybodys differences in colors and think everybodys awesome and loves them all the same.

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