What if Steve Nash was Black?

Steve Glaveski
6 min readSep 12, 2020

“What if George Floyd was white?”

This simple thought experiment was posed on Quora recently, drawing a mixed bag of responses.

Gabriel Bell, a pro-choice software developer from the UK said that “I doubt anyone would have heard of him…but it would not have got past second — just a white guy being taken away in a police car as countless others went about their lives.”

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Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.