Affirmative action sportwriter Mike Wilbon, now on ESPN and formerly the black mascot at the WashPost, opined that Jerry Jones seemed no different from a plantation owner ordering his slaves around. http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017...wner-requiring-players-stand-national-anthem/
The comparison is ludicrous. Slaves were not paid millions a year. No one is forced to play in the NFL. Employers have a legitimate right to dictate how their employees interact with customers.
Obviously Wilbon is aware of all this and is just trying to stake his claim to being the lead affirmative action hire at ESPN. His status is under direct attack by Jemele Hill, an aggressive black female who has already forced the network to tolerate outrageous misbehavior and who marshaled the support of other blacks there to support her.
The network's normal black loudmouth, Stephen A. Smith, has been uncharacteristically reserved. He made the requisite anti-Jones statement, but he perhaps recognizes a losing situation and is trying to back out of it. As he said:
"In the end, what it really, really comes down to is the president has successfully hijacked this issue," Smith said on "First Take," explaining that the original purpose of the anthem protests - highlighting racial inequality and police brutality - has been lost.
"He's turned it into an issue about patriotism and beyond. He's catering to his base in the process," Smith said. "He is the one that's winning because he's turned this into something that the players didn't intend to. So they're going to have to find a different mechanism to make their voices heard, because Trump has won this round."
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/...nt-trump-won-round-nfl-national-anthem-debate
The comparison is ludicrous. Slaves were not paid millions a year. No one is forced to play in the NFL. Employers have a legitimate right to dictate how their employees interact with customers.
Obviously Wilbon is aware of all this and is just trying to stake his claim to being the lead affirmative action hire at ESPN. His status is under direct attack by Jemele Hill, an aggressive black female who has already forced the network to tolerate outrageous misbehavior and who marshaled the support of other blacks there to support her.
The network's normal black loudmouth, Stephen A. Smith, has been uncharacteristically reserved. He made the requisite anti-Jones statement, but he perhaps recognizes a losing situation and is trying to back out of it. As he said:
"In the end, what it really, really comes down to is the president has successfully hijacked this issue," Smith said on "First Take," explaining that the original purpose of the anthem protests - highlighting racial inequality and police brutality - has been lost.
"He's turned it into an issue about patriotism and beyond. He's catering to his base in the process," Smith said. "He is the one that's winning because he's turned this into something that the players didn't intend to. So they're going to have to find a different mechanism to make their voices heard, because Trump has won this round."
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/...nt-trump-won-round-nfl-national-anthem-debate
