ATLANTA — Dr. Bernice A. King, the youngest child of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was brought out to midfield for the coin toss before Super Bowl LIII. She was joined by two other titanic civil rights leaders, Ambassador Andrew Young and Representative John Lewis.
Before the game began, the N.F.L. also played a video in the stadium that included images of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders, interspersed with images of N.F.L. players doing charity work.
On television, CBS ran a public service announcement that showed Commissioner Roger Goodell and other league executives touring the Ebenezer Baptist Church and other landmarks associated with Martin Luther King Jr.
For the many Super Bowl viewers who do not closely follow the league, and perhaps many who do, such imagery probably came across as proper and right for a game played in Atlanta, known as the cradle of the civil rights movement.
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Blah, blah, blah. Ignore it and it'll go away. Paying attention is what they want you to do.
ReplyDeleteWhen and if it goes away I might start watching again.
DeleteIt's a football game forget the freakin politics,nobody wants to hear that crap.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they get the message their are forums for protests and this call for attention should not be during game times. Do a march or protest and just call it that. I think all the other races need to start doing their own civil rights marches where the white people have been oppressed for years, where it's not all about Black Lives Matter---but more importantly ALL LIVES MATTER. They have been us up so much about this the pendulum has swung so far we ignore it and have turned away from what would have been a good thing.
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