I just posted this on another thread, but it fits here too:
Let’s pretend that the NFL is a different kind of business, say, a furniture store, in a free market economy.
OK...so there is this furniture store that is VERY popular. Either due to marketing, merchandising, or the high quality of its product (whatever!) the store gets bigger and bigger, richer and richer, and more and more popular. The prices go up, because the demand is so high. The owners can count on regular customers, who love the store’s furniture so much that they actually have mugs, T-Shirts, and ball caps with the Furniture Store’s Logo emblazoned upon it.
The management of the store ascertains that his customers are mostly patriotic Americans, so he has special decorations put up for American Holidays, and displays the Flag prominently. This brings in more and more customers, the prices keep going up, and everybody is happy.
Then, the owner realizes that the building is too small to house his furniture store. A new building will cost a lot more than he wants to spend, but, because his store is SO popular with the patriotic American People who patronize it, he is able to somehow get THEM to pay for it, through taxpayer funding, and, of course, an increase in pricing.
Because, for some reason, big African-American Men seem better at selling his furniture than others, he subsidizes their college, pays for their training, and gives them huge salaries to work in the store. The mostly white customers don’t mind the disproportionate numbers of black salespeople, because the customers are not racist, and the salesmen are performing, selling, the furniture, respecting the Flag, and generally providing the service they are being paid to perform.
Then, one day, the sales staff rebels, not against their employers, but against the CUSTOMERS, who are the ones paying their salaries. They do this by insulting what the customers hold dear, their Country and Their Flag. The customers find out that there are other furniture stores they can go to...ones that don’t insult them.
Or...everybody realizes that they have enough furniture, and don’t even need half of what is clogging up their homes. Then they have a big Yard Sale, of even burn or discard what they don’t need.
And there is NOTHING illegal, immoral, racist, or un-American in doing so.
The Furniture Store closes, and all the disrespectful employees lose their million-dollar jobs.
It’s called CHOICE.
In this respect, I am pro-choice. I choose not to patronize any business that insults me.