Posted on 06/08/2019 12:42:44 PM PDT by rktman
Clearly, such are the times in which we now live, considering that it's become necessary to explain why multi-millionaire sports stars are not, in fact, anything close to resembling slaves.
You wouldn't know that to hear some of them speak. On HBO's The Shop last year, Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors quipped that we shouldn't use the term "owner" to refer to NBA team owners, because it is racially insensitive to the predominantly black players in the league. Now, at least two teams have "done away with" the term "owner," ostensibly due to the word being a key component of "slave-owner."
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Every damned company everywhere has an owner of one sort or another.
This trash is getting silly.
The “former owners” should agree to the name change, then order the “employee” that complained to stand in the parking lot holding a lantern.
“done away with” the term “owner,” ostensibly due to the word being a key component of “slave-owner.”
They do own the team franchise, which happens to give you your paycheck. People that own a business......are owners.
Stock holders, are -Shared holders of most any corporation(s) are partial - owners.
Owners are the people that make the business decisions and pay other people for their services.
Call them "masters" instead. ;)
Yeah - they’re not slaves. They get paid.
They’re prostitutes.
“Draymond”? WTF?
Does “Draymond” “own” a pet? If so, maybe its name is Trigger.
Green is so dumb he must have gone to kindergarten at Michigan State.
Hm. So what about every other business? Wal-Mart, Wendy’s, Chick-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, etc etc. Are their owners not going to be ‘owners’ anymore?
I am an Independent, Owner/Operator.
Does that make me a slave?
Does that make me an Independent Slave?
Lawdy Lawdy, it gets so cornfusing these days, don’t know which way ‘they’ want to be up anymore.[sic]
‘Call them “masters” instead. ;)’
it is incredibly wrong headed to call employers of primarily black people ‘masters’...
‘massas’would be more phonetically correct...
Beneath this stone my OWNER lies
The victim of the BLUE tailed fly
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