Kaep’s kneelings weren’t meant to grab the attention of the team owners or the league itself. They were meant to grab the attention of the millions of fans of the game; to make them uncomfortably aware of their apathy to the plight of people who look like Kaep but aren’t fortunate enough to have his platform to call…

Just a quick (maybe pedantic) point of fact: there are not “more than 300 million black folks in the US” - there are about 325 million people altogether in the US, of which roughly 12.6% are Black or African American.

Do the players in question actually have the authority to bind other players? As far as I can tell it looks like Malcom Jenkins and Anquan Boldin just negotiated that they personally won’t protest.

Right? They never paid out half that $30M for CTE studies and even directed money away from scientists who had been critical of the NFL. Most of this money will go to commercials advertising how generous the NFL is and how the NFL is giving so much away to these charities when more is spent on the ad campaign than…

No.

Can this narrative please end? A full 25% of the teams in the NFL have minority ownership, be they women or non-Caucasian.

Actually, because it will be earmarked for charity, it is tax deductible, so it literally cost them nothing

Uhh, what? There is 1, one, singular, non-white NFL owner (not counting Packers shareholders, but I’m pretty sure they’re all white too).

Team Michael here. “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

I wonder where Black Americans would be today if the Civil Rights movement had taken hush money to simply go away. There were many upper middle class black community leaders who thought Dr. King’s movement was dangerous to their status quo and detente with the white community. There is no price to put on First…

Team Michael.

From Forbes (referring to the year 2016): “the NFL’s total revenues are projected to surpass $13.3 billion this year, up more than 50% from 2010"

My understanding is this is an “agreement in principle” meaning nothing is finalized.

“The whole point of a protest is that you have realistic demands,”

Seriously - how many will die during those 7 years? As was mentioned above, the amount is not only a drop in the bucket compared to what the league and these owners rake in every year, it’s not even a lump sum. In a year or two, cue the excuses about why the next payment is not coming. I am doubly disgusted.

The NFL is paying hush cash in 7 annual payments like black pain and suffering is like a tax write off?

They stopped supporting the CTE study. They think the owners will honor this?!

So many feelings on this one. The primary being “fuck the money, that’s not what this was about”.

They sold themselves out. 25 mil to the UNCF might send a lot of kids to college but I don’t understand how that’s going to prevent cops from shooting them.

Imagine working for something your entire life, since you were six years old, breaking bones; throwing up on the sidelines, risking your brain to achieve the one goal you had for your entire life. Now imagine coming to the realization that there is something more important: The very lives of your people.