nfl protests
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MAGA-Loving, Colin Kaepernick-Hating Top NFL Draft Prospect Seems to Hate Everything Black
When NFL owners, conservative pundits and generic, store-brand white people denigrate NFL protesters for using their sportsball platform to highlight social issues, what they really mean is they don’t like it when black people do it. When white people inject politics into sports, it’s perfectly fine. Take top NFL draft prospect Nick Bosa, for example.…
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Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid Likely Settled With NFL for Less Than $10 Million: Report
What is the price of pushing players out of the National Football League and preventing them from playing again because they silently protested against racial inequality and the pervasive and very real threat of unarmed black men and women being shot and killed by police in the United States with impunity? If you are former…
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Not Like This: Gladys Knight Plans to 'Give the Anthem Back Its Voice' at Super Bowl LIII
Auntie Gladys, not like this. Many of us have spent a year or more protesting the NFL in support of Colin Kaepernick and other players’ right to kneel during the national anthem (or simply opt out, altogether). So, understandably, it is low-key heartbreaking to hear through the grapevine (also known as Variety) that national treasure…
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You Can’t Be Mad at Big Boi and Travis Scott If You Watch the NFL
Oh, sometimes as we struggle it will be necessary to boycott. But let us remember as we boycott that a boycott is never an end. A boycott is merely means to awaken within the oppressor the sense of shame and to let him know that we don’t like how we are being treated. – Martin…
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Black Twitter Provides Generous Donation of Shade After Travis Scott, Big Boi Agree to Perform at Super Bowl
Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend and the half of Outkast not named Andre 3000 are set to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show with the Great Value Rolling Stones after the National Football League announced that Big Boi and Travis Scott will join Maroon 5 at Super Bowl LIII (which is, appropriately, almost “liiit”), marking the…
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Why They Kneel: 'What's Free?' The Money Bail Revolution in Philadelphia and D.C.
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. Tonight, the football team from Washington,…
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NFL Safety Eric Reid Has Been Drug Tested 6 Times in 8 Games But That's Probably Just a Coincidence
Because the NFL, much like America, is a fair place that doesn’t see color, there has to be another reason that Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid has been drug tested some six times since joining the team at the end of September. According to Bleacher Report, Reid, who just so happens to have been the…