It’s a subset of what I see happening all over the place, which is that white liberals no longer have the ability to oppose black radicalism. In the civil rights era, it was pretty clear: white liberals were with MLK and his nonviolent vision for a colorblind America, and against Malcolm X and his calls for violence and race consciousness (those leaders being symbolic of thousands of others).
But with the rise of postmodernism/cultural Marxism, you have white liberals feting someone like Ta-Nahisi Coates, who if you put it to him would probably fully admit to being far more aligned with Malcolm X than MLK. They’ve essentially said that we as white people have no right to tell black people what to think, black people are taking that opportunity to espouse racism right in their faces, and their response is: “Please, sir, may I have another?”
So yes, Goodell should’ve shut down Kaepernick as soon as he sat for the national anthem, and this would all be history by now. But he couldn’t, he didn’t have a basis for it, and it’s not until real significant dollars are at stake that he does something, but it’s probably too late.
When senior executives make major blunders that hurt their businesses they are fired.
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