To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each week, for the remainder of the NFL season, The Root will explore the data behind racial disparities in the two cities represented in the National Football League’s premiere matchup—Monday Night Football.
Two years after Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid began kneeling during the national anthem as a silent form of protest against the extrajudicial killing of black people by the police, Malcolm Jenkins is being put forth as the new face of NFL player protests.
Colin Kaepernick won the first of many fights in his legal battle against the NFL on Thursday when the arbitrator in the case denied the NFL’s request to dismiss the grievance entirely.
During a campaign appearance last week, Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who’s battling incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, a.k.a. grownup Eddie Munster, for the U.S. Senate, answered a question about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem and if it was disrespectful.
Jerry Jones, the good ole boy owner of the Dallas Cowboys; the spark plug and igniter of racial flames in the NFL; the spouter of the phrase “toe on the line” to explain how all his players would not be protesting during the national anthem—won’t comment on footage showing him wearing his hat as the anthem played.
Well, it looks like America is continuing its long-held tradition of being on the wrong side of black protest as South Florida police officers have been encouraged not to buy tickets to Miami Dolphins games after two players kneeled during the national anthem.
Although Michael Jordan’s “Republicans buy sneakers too” (a statement he might not have actually said) is oft-cited as a juxtaposition to the very public activism from many contemporary athletes, he was definitely not the only star of the ‘90s finding oxygen and endorsements behind the both sides shield. Where a…
Dak Prescott is a black man. He’s also a quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, one of the most profitable franchises in all of sports.
Despite the fact that some 70 percent of its players are African American, the National Football League is a conglomerate owned by white men that markets itself to white men. So it was no surprise when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and plantation league owners ran out of the tunnel all hyped up to appease their…
I begrudgingly have to admit that Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback I love to hate, is now less hated in the cockles of my heart because of a recent comment Mr. All-American made about the NFL protests.
Donald J. Trump, president of white America; the man who referred to the black mothers of NFL players kneeling for injustice and inequality as “bitches”; the man who painted Colin Kaepernick as anti-American and insinuated that anyone who didn’t stand for the NFL’s paid display of patriotism was an unpatriotic…
He went on to get more mainstream fame than most of his peers, but, lest we forget, actor Jim Carrey made his bones on In Living Color, a white man in a sea of black comedic icons like David Alan Grier, the Wayans brothers, Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx.
Tamika Mallory didn’t leave any wiggle room for misinterpretation when she took the mic after Minister Kirsten John Foy asked the crowd gathered in front of the NFL’s New York City headquarters to be respectful and not to use any foul language. Foy, Northwest regional director for the National Action Network, said…
