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Why I'm Officially Done with Professional Football From Now On

5/25/2018

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I didn't watch a single game during the 2017 season.  Not even the Super Bowl.  I didn't watch because it turned my stomach to think about watching a game when all the football organizations, the fans, and the merchant advertisers, made it quite clear that they don't have a single issue with African people being brutalized and murdered by the state, but they are up in arms against whatever way we decide to stand and speak against this treatment.  Look, I - more than many of you, understand that this is a backward and racist society.  It was built on that foundation and it balances itself on that carnage daily.  I know every institution in this society perpetuates that injustice.  I know professional basketball, baseball, soccer, etc., all perpetuate it.  As a result of that knowledge, I haven't been an avid fan of any sports in decades.  I watch when there is nothing of priority ahead of the games and I place everything as a priority ahead of these games.  So, I'm not going to pretend that I had some huge emotional investment in the National Football League NFL).  I just want to announce my intentions to continue not watching because the behavior of the people representing professional football has become so in our faces disrespectful that at this point, I don't understand truthfully how anyone who claims to stand for justice would permit themselves to be caught engaging any NFL games.  People have to do what they have to do to be happy I guess, but this is at the level where we have to respond.

These people are basically telling our athletes that all they have the right to do is perform for them.  They keep repeating the lie that their issue with Kaepernick and others who protested is "how they did it, etc."  They say "they shouldn't protest at work.  I don't like politics being brought into it.  I watch sports to escape politics and life issues."  All stupid arguments that no one with an ounce of sense shouldn't be able to see through.  The same people criticizing our athletes for "protesting at work" are the same people praising and raising money for doctors who refuse to perform abortions.  People who refuse to provide service to LGBTQI people, etc.  So, these liars have proven they have no problems with people protesting at work.  They just don't think we - Africans - have the right to do anything except what they expect us to do.  The tired statement about not wanting to deal with politics in sports is asinine because if they really believed that, they would be mad at the military which is hoeing itself out to the NFL for millions of dollars.  That's how politics got into sports when political institutions are buying out sporting games to promote their propaganda so they can recruit young people to go fight and die overseas for multi-national corporations.  It doesn't get more political than that, yet you won't hear a peep from any of these fools about that contradiction.  So, that's not it.  The issue they have is they see us as slaves who only exist to service and entertain them.  That's the issue and the insults from some idiot on Twitter everyday are just more examples of that.  

So, while Kaepernick and Eric Reid sue the NFL and hopefully gain some retribution for the racist collusion that has clearly been aimed against them, I'll be telling everyone I know not to watch.  And, for those people, who aren't in organizations by the way, who will drone on about "what good is a boycott?" my answer is its healthy and good for me.  By not watching I can claim some small measure of my own dignity in this society that is so effective at attempting to steal every bit of dignity you could ever expect to maintain for your sanity.  

I'm also going to use my commitment to not watching to have as many conversations as I can about it.  To help people understand that we are a people of dignity.  Kaepernick has clearly demonstrated that.  He has more dignity in his toenail than everyone at FOX, all the NFL owners, all the racist NFL fans, and that clown in D.C. combined.  I was listening to some local sports talk idiot the other day go on and on about how his problem was Kaep wearing the pig socks.  No issue with Africans being mrudered in the streets.  Just some pig socks.  Get down on your damn knees and thank your demons that all we are doing is wearing some pig socks at this point.  The other conversation is the criticisms against Kaep wearing Fidel Castro on a shirt.  Just like Kaep, Castro had more dignity in the last gas he passed than all the U.S. presidents, including the capitalist one in black face, combined.

Maybe if we work hard enough we can demonstrate enough power to shake them financially.  Or, if not, we can at least continue the very important conversation about a society that claims freedom, but denies it to anyone who doesn't move like sheep behind their immoral and criminal agenda.


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    I don't see disagreement as a negative because I understand that Frederick Douglass was correct when he said "there is no progress without struggle."  Our brains are muscles.  Just like any other muscle in our body if we don't stress it and push it, the brain will not improve.  Or, as a bumper sticker I saw once put it, "If you can't change your mind, how do you know it's there?"

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