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Boycotting the NFL Will Not Work, but Im Doing It Anyway
By Michael Harriot
First I’d like to give honor to the Most High (Snoop Dogg), the members of the pulpit, the pastor, his wife, his mistress, the mother of the church, and all the saints and sinners in the audience. I am here today to ask for your prayers.
I am about to endure one of the bravest tests of character and faith a man can endure. I feel like Daniel headed into the lion’s den. I feel like David preparing to fight Goliath. I feel like Job getting ready to ... well, Job kinda got fucked over because he got caught in the middle of a bet, but you know what I mean.
I’m boycotting the NFL this season, even though I know it probably won’t work. . . .
That’s why I’m not watching NFL football this year. It’s going to hurt me, but one of our problems is that we think resistance should be easy. We think progress can be achieved through social media memes instead of tired feet and sweaty necks. We think change is supposed to come without bruised knuckles and bloody skulls. It doesn’t work that way. . . .
First I’d like to give honor to the Most High (Snoop Dogg), the members of the pulpit, the pastor, his wife, his mistress, the mother of the church, and all the saints and sinners in the audience. I am here today to ask for your prayers.
I am about to endure one of the bravest tests of character and faith a man can endure. I feel like Daniel headed into the lion’s den. I feel like David preparing to fight Goliath. I feel like Job getting ready to ... well, Job kinda got fucked over because he got caught in the middle of a bet, but you know what I mean.
I’m boycotting the NFL this season, even though I know it probably won’t work. . . .
That’s why I’m not watching NFL football this year. It’s going to hurt me, but one of our problems is that we think resistance should be easy. We think progress can be achieved through social media memes instead of tired feet and sweaty necks. We think change is supposed to come without bruised knuckles and bloody skulls. It doesn’t work that way. . . .
http://www.theroot.com/boycotting-the-nfl-will-not-work-but-im-doing-it-an-1798391994
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This article sums up my feeling on the NFL and even though I think Kaepernick an idiot for not voting. The heat he's taken for taking the knee is unacceptable. Unlike the author, I've only enjoyed watching the NFL when I was a teenager. So for at least two decades before Michael Sam came out when he was drafted. I didn't watch the NFL because of all the horrendous player behavior. Of course, the management ignoring how brutal the sport is on a human body wasn't any better.