NFL
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Trump’s NFL Attacks Embolden Journalists
‘Racism’ and ‘White Supremacy’ Stated More Easily Media Executive Named NABJ Executive Director Border Wall No Panacea, USA Today Network Finds Puerto Rico Overshadowed by NFL, Health Care Homicides Prompt Mental Health Crisis in Chicago 7 Projects Get $2 Million to Boost Trust in Media Va. Statue to Honor Firebrand Editor, Nat Turner Concerns About…
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Mich. State Police Director Under Fire After Facebook Post Calling NFL Players Who Take a Knee During Anthem ‘Ungrateful, Anti-American Degenerates’
The director of the Michigan State Police is catching heat after blasting NFL players who opt to take a knee to protest the continued racial injustice in this country with a strongly worded post on her Facebook page. According to the Detroit Free Press, Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue shared the strongly worded message on her…
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A Hurricane Devastated Puerto Rico, but Donald Trump Only Cares About White People (Old Kanye Voice)
I know that it’s insane to want President Donald Trump to act presidential. I know that it’s insane to want him to stop tweeting like a boy-obsessed teen who can’t stop mean-girling. I know that it’s insane to want the president to stop emboldening and encouraging racist white hate. I also know the definition of…
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Car Dealership Pulls TV Ads With NFL Star Von Miller After He Takes a Knee
A Colorado car dealership curiously pulled all of its television ads featuring Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller after he took a knee to protest the flag, the national anthem, the military, white people, Donald Trump, injustice and inequality on Sunday. The Denver Post reports that a local television station’s claims that Miller was fired as…
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How to Protest Without Offending White People
Many people were surprised when President Donald Trump suggested that NFL team owners fire players who quietly choose to sit out the national anthem before games, but I was not one of them. Even though they thought they’d solved the anthem problem by blackballing protest starter Colin Kaepernick, the residual insolence displayed by the players…
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Jordin Sparks Delivers Powerful, Silent Protest While Loudly Singing the National Anthem Before Monday Night’s Football Game
Monday night’s meeting between the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals began with both teams taking a knee prior to the singing of the national anthem. As the anthem began, both teams stood, arms linked in unity as Jordin Sparks began to sing. SB Nation reports that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and team coach Jason…
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How the NFL Turned Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Into #AllLivesMatter
There’s a lot of things that need to change. One specifically is police brutality. There’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. Cops are getting paid leave for killing people. That’s not right by anyone’s standards. That was Colin Kaepernick’s response in 2016 when asked what specifically would need to change in order…
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C-SPAN Caller Sheds White Tears, Just Can’t Watch Football Anymore Because of NFL Players’ Protest
“Sharon” from Williamstown, N.J., just can’t take the disrespect of the American flag from football players during the national anthem. She, like most other tone-deaf white Americans, still believes that taking a knee during the national anthem is about this stupid flag and that racist-ass song, so she called the “independents line” on C-SPAN’s Washington…
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Pharrell Williams Takes a Knee During Charlottesville, Va., Concert
Pharrell Williams headlined the Concert for Charlottesville on Sunday night and joined in protests of Donald Trump’s recent comments about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. The concert, an event hosted by Dave Matthews following the deadly protests that took place in the Virginia college town last month, gave Williams the platform he needed…
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Did Mike Tomlin Pull Some Black-Ass Judo With His Answer to Why the Steelers Stayed in the Locker Room?
The present-day Pittsburgh Steelers exist as a paradox. They have been led, for the last 11 years, by a black coach who was considered for the position in large part because of the Rooney Rule—a policy requiring NFL teams to interview minority candidates for coaching and upper-management positions. The rule is named after Dan Rooney—the…