All the people here are indoctrinated from their youth to be very aggressive, to be numb to it."
He added that the sport itself excludes local communities: "Black people in Atlanta don't play football.
So when you invited the world here, you invited the world to participate in a sport that these people are not even included in."
The financial influx from the tournament does little to alleviate structural poverty. "The thing about this sport is it makes so much money, but we don't.
Are we going to unite the world? Are we going to fix the city?"
Sirius asked.
For those living on the margins, the World Cup is a distraction. "You've seen Gladiator, it's like the Games.
That's what it's for. It's a distraction.
They treat us like trash and trampled over us. But that's America for you, isn't it?"
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Sirius said.
