Posted on 12/13/2017 11:43:17 AM PST by Morgana
The NFL is no longer primarily about football. It is committed to advancing cultural Marxism first and foremost. The league has agreed to dump $89 million into leftist advocacy. It just extended the contract of Roger Goodell for up to $40 million per year, even though he has crippled the fan base with his support for Black Lives Matter protests during the national anthem. Then there is this:
As its players continue to protest the National Anthem, the National Football League (NFL) announced it will host an “Advocacy in Sport Workshop” at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, to educate athletes on how to “develop and implement effective advocacy platforms that positively impact society.”
In conjunction with the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE) and Morehouse, the February 21-23, 2018 workshop will teach student athletes how to turn sports into “a powerful platform for advocacy,” NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent said…
In case it wasn’t already obvious that the main emphasis will be on blackness as a political cause, Vincent barks:
“Sport has been an international venue for social change since before Jesse Owens swept the 1936 Olympics and opened the world’s eyes to the image of justice and equality.”
These days when leftists say “justice and equality,” they mean moonbattery: Affirmative Action, welfare, anti-Caucasian and anti-American rhetoric, funneling money into ultra-left activism, selectively refraining from enforcing the law, letting black felons out of prison, et cetera.
RISE wants to subvert sports to “improve race relations and drive social progress.” This means exactly the same thing.
As for Morehouse College, it is what they call a “historically African American” institution, meaning the pale of complexion are not advised to let the sun set on them on campus. Morehouse professor David Dennis Jr. has shouted that Tom Brady supporting the President is more of a threat to the country than theatrical displays of disrespect during the Star-Spangled Banner. Marc Lamont Hill, another Morehouse professor, denounced blacks who met with Trump as “mediocre negroes.” Sure, these militants will improve race relations.
Would you support MSNBC, Black Lives Matter, the Democrat Party, or the ACLU? Then don’t support the NFL; is serves the same purpose.
Instead, they take it out on their fans including Republican fans.
Fine, let someone else pay their salaries. I'm through.
““Sport has been an international venue for social change since before Jesse Owens swept the 1936 Olympics and opened the world’s eyes to the image of justice and equality”
Very infrequently and only in conjunction with other factors. Recently sports has been about criminal behavior, once & done collegiate basketball players, recruiting scandals, Miscogeny and on & on.
The answer as to why their platform is not working is as basic as it can be.
Equality is based upon mutual respect. You do not earn respect by disrespecting the other party. You breed separation and, ultimately, disunion with the other party. That where we are now. So the only thing they are doing is creating more of the same and making it harder to settle the problem.
rwood
It’s like watching someone pour gasoline over a masterpiece and light it on fire.
You don’t own it, but part of your soul is invested in it because of its beauty and poetry.
And then they pour gas on it, and you think, “What are you doing?”
And then there is the match, and that small interval where it might be saved, and you want to tackle the guy who touched it off.
Then you resign, because the painting is gone. You can still see what it used to look like, but it is gone for good.
All that value wiped out. You just stand there and gape.
The loss is so big, you realize it will effect all painting everywhere.
Because if the NFL dies, so does college ball. While it is true many are playing because they love it, many more are playing because they might go pro.
And the money that was there for scholarships? That’s going to go too when the only customer for their product goes away, and the NFL folds its tent.
I grew up in the time of Staubach, Stabler, Sanders, Blanda, Lamonica, Kilmer, etc. Jim Otto and Otis Sistrunk. Johnny U. Broadway Joe. Ray Guy. Montana to Rice.
I just can’t believe they’d burn it down, and then give the arsonist a $200M tip. I don’t see any logic in it, and somewhere its got to be there.
“What is so hard to understand about that.”
It’s very difficult to understand as long as it is presented with the effort to intentionally create the division. The football players don’t want understanding. That’s why they haven’t talked with anyone to try to improve the situation except for about three athletes that talked with minor politicians. They might as well have sent a letter off to the Kodak Camera Company.
Without meeting face to face, in a position of mutual respect, nothing will get fixed. And as long as people try to be different in appearance and actions, some violent, they will fear each other, not befriend.
rwood
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