The Last Dance and the Stories We Tell

The Michael Jordan docuseries was so much fun. It didn't try to be anything else.

There’s a moment about halfway through The Last Dance when Michael Jordan is refusing to endorse Harvey Gantt, the Democrat running to become the first African American senator from Jordan’s home state of North Carolina. His infamous quote is “Republicans buy sneakers, too”, but there’s more to it than that. Jordan is not Muhammad Ali. He has huge respe…