• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The league only cares about black athletes to the degree that it can profit off their performance.

    Case in point: Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem – which was honestly an extremely mild form of protest – and was immediately black-balled.

    If they do care about black athletes, they clearly care about money a lot more.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      The players are unionized, and the NFLPA has a lot of strong black voices in leadership if I recall (at least as of the last time I looked into it)… But yeah I doubt they’ll do anything unfortunately.