{"id":59332,"date":"2019-12-13T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59332"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:58:05","slug":"in-the-end-the-nfl-proved-colin-kaepernick-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59332","title":{"rendered":"In the End, the NFL Proved Colin Kaepernick Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the End, the NFL Proved Colin Kaepernick Right<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Atlantic<\/a>
\n2019-12-12<\/p>\n

Jemele Hill<\/strong><\/a>, Staff writer<\/p>\n

\"Colin<\/a>
\nAl Bello \/ Getty<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

In pronouncing the outspoken quarterback\u2019s career dead, the league underscored its own unwillingness to let players exercise their own power.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the NFL<\/a> commissioner, Roger Goodell<\/a>, declared yesterday that the league had \u201cmoved on\u201d from the embattled quarterback Colin Kaepernick<\/a>, the finality of Goodell\u2019s tone answered the question about whether Kaepernick would ever play professional football again.<\/p>\n

Kaepernick became persona non grata<\/a> in the National Football League<\/a> after the 2016 season, during which he protested police violence against African Americans by kneeling during the national anthem. The league then spent more than two years trying to make him go away, but seemed to relent by scheduling a workout for him last month in Atlanta<\/a>. But that proposed session didn\u2019t happen on the NFL\u2019s terms, and Goodell, in his first public comments about the matter, implied yesterday that Kaepernick had blown his last chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a unique opportunity\u2014an incredible opportunity\u2014and he chose not to take it. And we\u2019ve moved on here,\u201d Goodell said at an owners\u2019 meeting in Irving, Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But if Goodell believes that the Atlanta fiasco provided closure to this situation, he\u2019s being horribly naive. The league\u2019s clumsy treatment of Kaepernick only showed what the quarterback\u2019s supporters have been saying all along: The NFL is unwilling to tolerate black athletes\u2019 outrage, outspokenness, and desire to exercise their power\u2014even though all three are entirely justified…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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