For those watching the latest iteration of America's culture wars, the player protests in the National Football League are an object lesson in cultural insurgency.
The whole thing started last year when San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat out the traditional pre-game playing of the National Anthem. Fans, outraged that he wasn't fired outright or at least benched under a "sit for the Anthem, sit for the game" policy, abandoned pro football in droves. Kaepernick was released by San Francisco later in the year, and since then, no other NFL team has picked up his contract.
Now both the NAACP on one side and pro football fans on the other are calling for a boycott of the NFL. This has put the League in a "damned if you, damned if you don't" situation and given it a headache of Solomonic proportions.
A Platform for Social Change
The National Football League is a true meritocracy. Blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population and about 70% of the NFL roster. The NFL fan base, meanwhile, is 83% white. The raison d'être for this latest battlefield in America's culture war is that some black players see the NFL as a platform for social change. Many of their fans, conversely, do not.
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9 comments:
Stupid idiots following the same untruths that there is a racial division in our Country. Really? Granted in any city, there's a Black, White, PR, Hispanic, Orriental section BECAUSE these people want to assimilate with each other and also assimilate with American culture nand uphold traditional homeland values.
Nothing wrong here,
DUH.
If I wanted schooling, I'd go to school.
If the man in charge can't figure this out in ,5 seconds he should be fired. This whole thing is stupid. Play ball of your done know cares about your position or thoughts.
Kaperdick was not let go by San Fran he opted out of his contract and he has had offers from other teams but turned them down. He should be focused on trying to find his biological father and why both his parents abandoned him.
Real tired of hearing about the National Felony League and the turds associated with it. I don't care who got shot or locked up that play sports and certainly don't care about the political opinions or views of the turds in Hollyweird.
All of the liberal ESPN and other sports writers keep trying to convince me that Kapernick is not the reason I stopped watching football last year. It's not working. And many of my friends feel the same.
If the Raven's signed him - in the city where FSC wrote the anthem - there would have been riots. Just sayin'.
This isnt racist... its business common sense. I hope his knees hurt.
I watch sports because it's about game, competition and teamwork without politics and crime in the mix. I still watch sports for that, but had to delete the National Felony League for that same reason.
Turned it off. Will not watch overpaid idiots play.
I hope he never gets re-signed. He did this to himself. He had enough money to help his cause in a productive way, not in a "I hate America and her flag" way.
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