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In “The Black Athlete,” Nicole Fleetwood provides a history of black sports celebrity in order to contextualize Jordan’s impact and understand the immense scrutiny athletes of color continue to face While the political/commercial distinction is fairly reductive, it can help us understand why Jordan and the celebrity athletes who’ve followed him are subject to criticism: Contemporary sports stardom is structured by the questions Can commercial athletes be political? Can—and should—commercial athletes be political? Space Jam does not definitively or coherently answer this question, but it does recognize that Jordan’s celebrity is complex—that it has meaning to both to capitalist enterprise and minority audiences. In Space Jam , Jordan both upholds and challenges structures of power. Perhaps this is why the film is so oddly enduring (Or maybe I’m just trying to justify my love for it?? Whatever the case, it’s definitely a text worth thinking about)