Transcripts for CNN CNN Special Program 20240604 00:58:00 :

yeah. i m the product of two tennis fanatics and i was at the u.s. open as a little kid. he was a character in my life and opened me up to problems in south africa, the apartheid situation. sam, ashe blazed a trail for many of the athlete activists like colin kaepernick. speaking out today. how big was his impact? i think his impact was tremendous. i mean, here s a man who won the first u.s. open and used it to speak out on issues like apartheid and the athletes you mentioned, they stand on the shoulders of arthur ashe and basically who had the colonel to speak out and speak up about the