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Bernard Hopkins wasted no time when he came to the podium on Monday to formally announce the last fight of his legendary career.In a bout dubbed Final 1, Hopkins will face light heavyweight contender Joe Smith Jr. on Dec. 17 (HBO, 10 p.m. ET/PT) at The Forum in Inglewood, California.Final 1, get right to the chase, Hopkins said at the news conference at the arena, which has a rich boxing history. This is history. Weve been here many times, not in this arena, but we been places where history was made by me multiple times. This is obviously different than everything I have ever done, because it is the Final 1.Hopkins, who turned pro in 1988 -- when Ronald Reagan was in his second term as president -- has been one of the best boxers in the world for virtually all of the 28 years he has fought professionally. His legacy was cemented years ago: undisputed middleweight champion, including a division-record 20 title defenses (although not all were of the undisputed title), three-time light heavyweight world titleholder (including ownership of the lineal title and having unified two belts) and lock first-ballot Hall of Famer.The wins on his record read like a whos who: Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright, Kelly Pavlik, Roy Jones (to avenge a loss when, OK, Roy was way past his prime) and Jean Pascal, to name the biggest ones.But the 51-year-old Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs), who has boxed in four decades and turned pro before the 27-year-old Smith (22-1, 18 KOs) was born, was not in the mood for a whole lot of nostalgia on Monday.I dont reflect now because I still have a task at hand, Hopkins said sternly.Hopkins picked Smith, a union laborer by trade, because when he was offered his name as a possible opponent he studied up on him and came away impressed by his upset first-round knockout of contender Andrzej Fonfara in June.I am against an incredible opponent who I dont think looks at himself as an opponent, Hopkins said. Joe Smith Jr. is coming to try to make a name for himself and if I didnt have that challenge in front of me it [would] just be a fight. Well, I never took the easy way out. I dont want no one to say they gave me anything. Give me an opportunity or give me a door and Ill open it myself. I dont have to convince anyone no more.Smith did not have much to say. Besides, Hopkins can usually talk enough for four or five people. Maybe more. But Smith did show his appreciation for being picked for the opportunity to fight Hopkins and did not sound like there was one bit of attitude -- since he was hand-picked in the belief that he would send Hopkins into retirement with a victory.Im so glad I was chosen to fight Bernard Hopkins in his final fight, said Smith, who is from New Yorks Long Island. Im going to train very hard for this fight and take full advantage of it. Im looking forward to putting on a great show for everyone.Im a hard puncher, Im a hard worker and Im gonna train super hard for this fight. I will take full advantage of it.Joe DeGuardia, Smiths promoter who also has a friendly relationship with Hopkins, gave Hopkins credit for his willingness to tangle with a much younger fighter and a big puncher.This fight was really easy to make, and that is a testament to Bernard Hopkins, because most fighters would shy away from a puncher like Joe Smith Jr., he said.Then DeGuardia gently ribbed Hopkins.Bernard has really picked a true, true challenge here, DeGuardia said before turning to Hopkins. I love ya. Youve been historic for boxing, but this time youre biting off a little more than you can chew.Sure, Smith will be the underdog, but he should not be written off. He is getting a near-elderly Hopkins, who has more knockouts than Smith has fights -- and more title fights than Smith has fights -- but has boxed an astronomical number of rounds, 506 to Smiths 73.Hopkins is also returning to the ring after a 25-month layoff and one-sided beating in a decision loss to Sergey Kovalev in a world title unification fight. Hopkins reason was simple: Because he wants to go out on his own terms.It will be the last hurrah, as a champion goes out in his terms, in his way, said De La Hoya, who is CEO of Golden Boy Promotions and Hopkins promoter, business partner, friend and onetime ring rival.Only legends can do that and superstars who transcend the sport. What excited me about this fight is that Bernard is not fighting someone who is a walk in the park. He is fighting a difficult fight, and this gentleman [Smith] has every opportunity in the book to win.It wasnt my first choice. Its gonna be a tough fight, a difficult fight, but this is who Hopkins is. Hopkins transcends the sport. Hopkins is a fighter who will be talked about for many decades to come.But boxing is young mans game. Hopkins knows that. Its one of the reasons he said he will not dwell on his past achievements as he prepares for his final bout. There will be time after the fight to reflect on his great career. He said he will do everything in his power to stay focused on the present, not the past.This is not emotional and it wont be emotional because I got a task at hand, he said. I dont have to act like a buffoon here on stage or push and shove. Ive done that already. But what I am gonna do is show you why Ive been called three different titles in boxing -- from The Executioner to B-Hop to The Alien. They all exist in me, but Dec. 17 you will see The Executioner. Full circle.Then for emphasis, Hopkins said it again, Full circle, as he drew an imaginary circle with his finger.Win, lose or draw, he said. There is no excuse. 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My father grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He was pulled over multiple times -- sometimes for speeding, sometimes for having a white woman in his car, sometimes for no reason at all.You know. Driving while black.My father is a man who pulls no punches when discussing race and raised me to think similarly -- to have a healthy sense of fear in recognizing the precarious nature of my existence. For him, it wasnt enough to recognize the dangers of being a black man in this country. He recognized the dangers of being a black person.During the recent televised conversations about police brutality -- including the town hall with President Barack Obama that aired Thursday and the town hall with BET and MTV personalities last week -- the focus of the discussions has been almost exclusively on men.Police brutality absolutely affects black men. But amid the heightened attention around the deaths of black men at the hands of police, the killings of black women have gone under-covered and under-mentioned. As a result, black women get pushed out of the conversation all together, even though black women founded the Black Lives Matter movement.To quote the report called Say Her Name, released by the African American Policy Forum last year: The erasure of black women is not purely a matter of missing facts. Even where women and girls are present in the data, narratives framing police profiling and lethal force as exclusively male experiences lead researchers, the media and advocates to exclude them.During the town hall with President Obama, only a few women spoke, and all in accessory capaciities: mothers of police officers, girlfriend of someone slain by police or a mother of a protester in Baltimore.ddddddddddddThats not to say these womens experiences dont matter --of course they do -- but women are more than accessories. Women participate actively in the movement and experience violence, which needs to be discussed as we search for peace and solutions as a nation.This exclusion happens even as athletes respond to these cases of police brutality. When Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade opened the ESPYs with their call to action, they named a few of those killed by police in recent years. Rekia Boyd, Natasha McKenna, Janisha Fonville and Tanisha Anderson were not among those mentioned. When they called out activists, not a single black woman was acknowledged, nor were the efforts of WNBA teams?who had already answered the call to recognize those killed.The continued erasure of women from this conversation is partly due to how we think about gender and race. Blackness is often thought of as masculine, and womanhood is often thought of as white. When those identities and experiences of racism and sexism intersect -- as they do for black women -- we struggle to adequately hear their stories.Although racism and sexism readily intersect in the lives of real people, they seldom do in feminist and antiracist practices. And so, when practices expound identity as woman or person of color as an either/or proposition, they relegate the identity of women of color to a location that resists telling, Kimberle Crenshaw, who co-founded and is executive director of the AAPF, wrote in her 1993 paper, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.We have to see black women and fight for black women in the same way that black women continue to fight for others around them. The same is true for queer and trans black people and black people with disabilities. Black lives matter does not just refer to black men.Black women lives matter.Black trans lives matter.Black queer lives matter.Black disabled lives matter.I see you. I love you. You matter. ' ' '