The underlying issue is money.
Stop watching, don’t buy NFL merchandise and stop patronizing their sponsors.
In the media, patriotism is bought and sold like a commodity.
Exactly....refuse all things NFL. Plus calls and emails
“The underlying issue is money.”
Whereas there is truth in this, I personally think the major issue is that there are large swaths of our citizenry who don’t like each other or actually hate each other. The days of ‘I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it’ are long over.
I lay a great deal of the blame for this at the feet of politicians, liberal academics, and the media. All have fueled divisions among Americans (race, class, money, politics, religion, etc) for many, many decades, and they’ve mostly all done this for personal gain (e.g. votes, divide and conquer politics, grants and publications, notoriety, and/or ideology). They’ve also pushed for immigration (and turned a blind eye to illegal immigration) for perceived personal gain, and in so doing have contributed to rapid demographic shifts in American society that are both destabilizing and that promote non-integration into the American melting pot.
Ultimately, our children and future generations will pay the price. It will take totally honest, open, politically incorrect, ongoing assessment and discussion to get past this point in our history. Hopefully, we can avoid more violence - though many on the ‘tolerant’ left are pushing for this.