First of all, you are misinformed: the reason most people are boycotting the NFL is not because no team will give a job to a guy who wants to use the platform his employer gives him to make disrespectful public statements, but rather, BECAUSE of those disrespectful public statements. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2016/10/05/confirmed-nfl-losing-millions-of-tv-viewers-because-of-national-anthem-protests/#7c1e40e1226c. In other words, a message is indeed being sent to the NFL, but it’s not YOUR message; it’s OUR message, which is that we’re not going to stand for these disrespectful well-paid ingrates turning a football field into a platform for their half-baked, uninformed political notions.
Second, when you say that NFL is a “league that prefers its predominantly Black workforce to silently run, catch, throw and tackle as the world around them apply full blitzes to people who look like them by way of militarized policing and disenfranchising public policy,” do you understand how little sense this makes? In lieu of saying the same thing again, I’ll quote what I wrote in response to another post similar to yours:
I’m an attorney. If I go to court on behalf of a client, and if I, as a protest about some political issue, take a knee when the judge walks in instead of standing up respectfully like everyone’s supposed to, I’ll likely get (deservedly) fired. Why should a different standard apply to Kaepernick?
In other words, why should the NFL be different from any other employer, which also prefers its workforce, whether predominantly white, black or any other race or color, to do its job rather than embarrass that employer in public? Like any employer, the NFL wants its workforce to do what it is paid to do: work. This is not a race issue. It’s a common sense issue. Stop injecting race into everything.
Finally, when you talk about the “world around” these black athletes applying “full blitzes to people who look like them by way of militarized policing and disenfranchising public policy,” I actually have no idea what you’re talking about when you speak about “militarized policing” and “disenfranchising public policy” (these seem like popular catchphrases rather than coherent ideas referring to anything in particular), but more importantly, why do you assume that these athletes have some obligation to stand up for people “who look like them”? Am I supposed to be standing up for all white people because they look like me? I’ll stand up for causes I believe in, and I don’t care which racial group those causes are primarily associated with. If more people did that, we wouldn’t have the toxic, divisive racial politics we are now all struggling with.
