Why are NFL players silent on DeSean Jackson?

The Spectator ^ | 8 July 2020 | Dominic Green

[Rummyfan]

The usual anti-racism crowd is punting.....

In early June, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints refused to take a knee because he didn’t want to insult the flag. Black NFL players lined up to denounce him.

‘Ignorant,’ said his black teammate Emmanuel Sanders.

‘Drew’s words were extremely painful to hear,’ another black Saint, Malcolm Jenkins said, ‘and I hope he rectifies them with real action.’

‘If you don’t speak about racism, then you’re a part of the problem,’ said A.J. Brown of the Tennessee Titans.

A month later, in early July, DeSean Jackson of the Philadelphia Eagles posted on Instagram an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory attributed to the noted sports fan Adolf Hitler. None of Jackson’s NFL peers, black or white, has said a word. Colin Kaepernick, who is usually so vocal about racism, has been uncharacteristically silent. The New York Times, usually so quick to denounce imaginary offenses against the speech-code mania of the day, said nothing at all. The leaders of Black Lives Matter didn’t order their minions to add this outburst of racism to their to-do list either.

From which we conclude that Jackson’s knee-taking peers in the locker room, the icons of BLM and the gatekeepers of the ‘paper of record’ either agree with him, or think it’s not a big deal, or think that black racism toward Jews should be overlooked in the name of the greater cause of ‘anti-racism’. In a way, it doesn’t really matter which. Any society that establishes any of these beliefs as acceptable – ‘normalized’ as the guardians of speech now say – is heading to perdition.

[Stentor]

And the Jewish owner & Jewish GM of the Eagles just roll-over for this?

Is it "all about the Benjamins"?

[Richard Kimball]

Drew Breeze should have told the carpers to pound sand.

He had a choice. Stand his ground and retire, or keep playing football. If he had not caved, black players would have targeted him with cheap shots until he was permanently injured, and the players on his own team would have helped.

[central_va]

Te Eagles new helmet logo:

[jocon307]

Well, I hope what you are saying is not true, but assume that it is. His groveling apology may make him as much of a target as standing his ground would have done.

There’s a lot of things more important than playing football, in fact pretty much everything on the planet is more important than playing football and certainly one’s dignity and self-respect should be high on the list of those things.

He’s a coward and a bum and he should hang in head in shame. And the wife too.