How can a woke, radical progressive sit down and watch the NFL without hating themselves the next day?
How can a woke, radical progressive sit down and watch the NFL without hating themselves the next day? How can the NFL STILL support BLM after all the scandals they have been involved in?
Can we stop pretending Floyd was a saint? Floyd should be alive today! And Derek Chauvin has a Superman complex and should pay for the crimes he was found guilty of but do not pretend Floyd had an unblemished history.
It’s laughable if you think Colin Kaepernick started a “new civil rights moment”. Let’s have some Democrats boycott the NFL until Kaepernick plays again.
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There’s no shortage of disturbing data to support the claim that police are more likely to use force against and kill Black citizens. Black men are about 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than are white men. Black women are about 1.4 times more likely to be killed by police than are white women. Among all groups, Black men and boys face the highest lifetime risk of having fatal interactions with police: About one in 1,000 Black men and boys will be killed by police. And between the ages of 25 and 29, Black men are killed by police at a rate between 2.8 and 4.1 per 100,000.
Across the United States, people left their lockdowns and took to the streets to protest police brutality and systemic oppression of Black and brown people. The movement soon spread globally, with protesters denouncing racism and police brutality worldwide and declaring solidarity with like-minded demonstrators in the U.S.
Considering the tightrope the league walked back then around the issues of systemic racism and police brutality, the statement was in keeping with the times. But what Goodell and NFL team owners didn’t realize was that times were changing rapidly.
From the moment former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the NFL player-protest movement — which evolved into a new civil rights movement in sports — during the 2016-17 season
But for many NFL players and even some employees within the league office, three words immediately came to mind after Goodell’s statement about the killing of Floyd was released: not good enough.
‘We, the National Football League, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black people. We, the National Football League, admit wrong in silencing our players from peacefully protesting. We, the National Football League, believe Black lives matter.’ ”
To that point, the NFL had not acknowledged the Black Lives Matter movement, which was formed to protest incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against Black people. In stoking culture wars to his political advantage, former President Trump has regularly railed against BLM for, among other things, as he spun it, being “a symbol of hate.” Mahomes’ decision to go all-in on the video — especially regarding a topic that NFL power brokers had strenuously avoided — put the NFL in a difficult position.
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