Posted on 10/31/2021 3:04:27 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Slaves don’t get paid millions to toss a ball around. He’s not even black, which is the most hilarious part of all this. It looks like his white mom had sex with a muslim.
I’m pretty sure that slaves didn’t have the same income level as members of sports teams enjoy. Nor did slaves have the right to refuse offers of employment.
Other than the money they are paid, he’s right. The NFL makes them strip down to almost nothing and then demonstrate their physical prowess, just like those slave auctions of long ago. ESPN tried this theme in one of their NFL draft specials several years ago and I would have thought groups like the NAACP and Rainbow Coalition would have an absolute cow over it but nary a peep. I was shocked.
yes- just like slavery except for the fact players are invited to the combine but don’t have to accept the invitation....
Sorry try working as a sub contractor to HP and get treated like 2nd class, or another company where I during a dispute I had to argue for my bonus to HR which I was successful orhave your hours cut all because some site manager wanted go home early and not stay all night, and that was not still compared to slavery.
And if course, guys who play with a game with a ball should not be interviewed in relation to that. How dare those employers!
Translation: “If I can’t play in the NFL, I don’t want ANY black person playing in the NFL. This remark should help to poison the waters.”
Slaving away to the tune of practice squad players being able to earn $8,000 a week over a 17 game season...doing something they’d do for fun anyway! Poor kids!
Yeah, except the slaves weren’t paid twenty million dollars for six months of work . . .
Yeah, except the slaves weren’t paid twenty million dollars for six months of work . . .
To those saying that this is an apt comparison:
It isn’t. In fact it might be one of the dumbest statements in human history.
Real slaves were forced to work for free and kept as prisoners and breeding stock.
NFL players are paid millions of dollars and denied NOTHING except for the right to go and play football for a team other than the one to which they are contractually obligated.
Geez.
SPJNK.
There are a couple of differences: (1) a player can reject the team that drafts him and take some other line of work; or, negotiate a deal to get him where he wants to go; or, sit out a year; and (2) if he DOES sign with the team that drafts him, he will make a LOT of money, more in one year than most people make in several years. If he plays wells for a year or two, he will make millions. After a few years, he can sign with whomever he wants. No matter what, he remains a free man who can live where he wants and make most of his own decisions. Not quite like slavery.
How bad do you have to be?
-PJ
As if slaves were paid millions. He has no idea what slavery was.
Spoiled, rich con man
Is he a male or female or X slave? It depends.maybe he should be Biden’s chief diaper changer.
A “slave” auction where the “slave” gets millions of dollars to play a child’s game. I feel for these guys. /s
Like the NFL should put high dollar on a guy with two left feet?
If you want the money you have to be able to excite the crowd.
If the crowd is excited by the other guy then you go home.
Kapernick went home
Stop right there. NO ONE makes them do anything. They choose to do it for the chance to earn millions of dollars. He was free to walk away any time he wanted unlike actual slaves who were forced into slavery.
Colin Kaepernick insults the legacy of every slave; black, white, asian, throughout history and also the slaves that still exist today. Colin Kaepernick is a bald-faced hypocrite who took millions from Nike who profited from Uighur slave labor in China.
Colin Kaepernick can go whine to all the draftees alive today who were given the choice of prison or enlisting, including all the physical examinations, and going off to potentially die or be permanently disabled, so clowns like Kaepernick can frolic on a field for millions of dollars.
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