Posted on 10/28/2021 12:47:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The NAACP is calling on professional athletes to reconsider signing with professional sports teams in Texas to protest the state's controversial voting and abortion laws.
In an open letter to the unions for the NBA, NFL, WNBA, MLB, and NHL, the NAACP urged athletes to consider the use of their platforms and positions as role models for kids across the country.
"Over the past few months, legislators in Texas have passed archaic policies, disguised as laws, that directly violate privacy rights and a woman's freedom to choose, restrict access to free and fair elections for Black and brown voters, and increase the risk of contracting coronavirus," read the letter, penned by NAACP President Derrick Johnson and NAACP Texas President Gary Bledsoe.
"If you are a woman, avoid Texas. If you are Black, avoid Texas. If you want to lower your chances of dying from coronavirus, avoid Texas."
The letter comes several months after MLB moved the 2021 All-Star game and draft out of Georgia in response to the state's controversial voting law.
"We are now pleading with you — if you are a free agent and are considering employment in Texas, look elsewhere. The Texas government will not protect your family. Demand that Texas owners invest in your rights and protect your investments," the letter adds. "Texas is not safe for you, your spouse, or your children. Until the legislation is overturned, Texas isn't safe for anyone."
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Yeah, they’ll turn down those millions of bucks with no state taxes.....................
Yeah, don’t sign with those folks who are trying to stop the black genocide of abortion envisioned by Margret Sanger.
I guess the NAACP doesn’t fully understand the racist origins of the abortion industry?
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between the NAACP and BLM.
in before all the weeping about black abortions! what paradise do you all live in that you are actually counting black people.
Pro Sports is completely the Entertainment Industry => Hollywood
Oh, my.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As a black American, I am qualified to ask that you please ignore the ramblings of this institution. It is clear they are desperate for (what’s the word I’m looking for)
... relevance.
Oh, and a note to the NACCP: Can you direct your request to all those Haitians and other dark-skinned folks bum-rushing the Texas border on a daily basis? Asking for a friend.
That is all.
my $0.02
jimjohn - OUT
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Texas isn’t safe for anyone. What an absurd statement.
Texas isn’t safe for black people. Also absurd.
Where are black people in more danger? Walking down the street in any town or city in Texas, or walking down the street on the south side o Chicago, in liberal Illinois?
I am urging everyone to NOT give money to the NAACP.
Please do that all you loudmouth black millionaires preaching down to everyone else. Just leave all the red states while you’re at it and take all your ilk with you.
It would be slightly funny if the result of this was all-White sports teams in Texas.
If the players are that left leaning, we’d just as well not have them here.
Was this written by the DNC for the NAACP?
As is their right.
But funny they want to promote things that hurt their own people.
Most children killed in infanticide are minority
So, more players in a smaller market, guess what. Lower pay.
Go right ahead.
For almost as long as I can remember the NAACP has done everything they could to keep Black People Down, on Welfare and on the Plantation beholden to the very Slave Masters they whine about all the time...
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