To celebrate national United Against Hate Day of Action, kids at the Z. Alexander Looby Community Center got a special visit from Nashville’s major sports leagues.
Nashville SC player Hany Mukhtar came out to volunteer, along with mascots from the Tennessee Titans, the Nashville Predators and his own team.
“I’m trying to do my part. I think it’s very important to help, especially, our community,” Muhktar said. “There’s still hate out there. And we’re trying to fight it.”
Metro Councilmember Zulfat Suara and Tennessee Rep. Aftyn Behn organized the event. The pair focused on the kids in the Looby Center’s after school program because of how neo-Nazis targeted and harassed Black children earlier this year.
“When you get attacked because of who you are, it affects you psychologically. I mean, it cripples you,” Suara said. “We wanted to just let them know that the community loves them and that all the hate that is out there, we don’t want it to touch them.”
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