Well, the NFL did it. They ended racism.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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I, for one, have found racism considerably less appealing since reading this sideways in endzones. Thanks NFL for making me not a bigot anymore. I think blacks are probably fine now.
Of course this was not about to end racism, but building safe space to not trigger the racists is encouraging them.
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Didn't they just end "ending racism"?
Legit question. What happens if every single black player just REFUSES to play at the superbowl?
Like, lets say you get opening kickoff, and it's a white guy kicker. So he kicks the ball. It lands at about the 15 yard line. And just NOBODY even attempts anything. They all just stand there, pointing at the endzones.
And it's both teams. I don't know exact numbers, but I'd guess every teams roster is 90%+ black.
And since it's both teams, you can't call one side a forfeit.
I think they should. Embarass the NFL on the biggest stage. The game is Feb 9th. This would be the lead story Feb 10th. They either repaint it back onto the endzones DURING the game, reschedule the game, or the whole game is 0-0, with a clock running down for 3 hours.
What would the NFL do?
Fire all black people and somehow fault them for the whole thing.
At least if the rest of the country does not show solidarity and doesn't organize a general strike - which is illegal by the way.
Fire every black person in the NFL??? Hooooooooboy.
2026 headline. "NFL viewership falls to 3. As in there are now 3 people still watching."
Point taken.
Just don't pay them, get them arrested and lease them back from the prisons. Slavery is legal in the US after all.
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Why are people talking about a general strike in the USA? Surely you must realise everyone is too busy keeping their heads above water.
General strikes usually happen when people realize that they won't be able to keep doing that.
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Every single ~~Black~~ player. They're a team, and I'm willing to believe they respect each other enough to stand still for each other.
Unfortunately, those players make so much money that it moves them into the big club that we ain't in. Not a lot of class/race solidarity there, from what I've seen...just solidarity with whatever gets them paid.
Which I guess makes sense. The sport itself is extremely predatory, preying on young, very poor (usually) black men, offering them the promise of wealth they wouldn't normally have access to—if they just sell their bodies and physical health to the wealthier white men who own them. So they work their asses off all through high school and college to hopefully have the chance at the NFL; joining the league literally becomes the culmination of their life's work.
Not many want to actually rock that boat.
This would be fucking awesome.
So awesome it'll never happen, but it'd make a great scene for Remember the Titans 2.
They shouldn't be so political!
As the literal president who started the whole thing sits in the stands. Hopefully getting boo'd.
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I'd love them to take a knee at the anthem. I hope someone or many do.
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Wouldn't want the snowflakes feeling bad about their natural tendencies, would we?
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Interested to see if Kendrick is gonna have ANYTHING to say about the state of things at his performance at the halftime show.
He'll call Drake a racist and the crowd will go wild. That's the state of things.
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Kiss the ring, lick the boot. These giant, greedy corporations are fucking pathetic...
EDIT: "Bend the knee" has different connotations, as pointed out by some MFs...
Also , the spineless viewers , musical artists, players, and advertisers that enable the whole event
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Stupid article with irritating title. They're just changing it to Choose Love, which apparently was one of the other messages used this season.
Is that the love between a man or a woman or the love of a man for a fine Cuban cigar?
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I think the point is more that they are changing it to appease the great big orange convicted criminal who is currently gutting our government and destroying affirmative action in the name of "efficiency" with a literal Nazi at the helm of that effort.
But hey, it's only a nationally televised sporting event so who cares. 😒
Fuck the NFL. I honestly hope people torch the Superbowl over this and FuckwADUS attending like Nero in the colosseum.
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Just stick an S in front, will give the same message and will be much cheaper!
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…in case you were curious if it performative in the first place…
My consolation is that these motherfuckers are not ready for how hard the pendulum will swing back.
It will be a proper wrecking ball.
I agree, what’s that timeline look like for you though? 4 years? 8 years? The “wait” is gonna fuckin’ suck.
Crossing my fingers for the first trans president, though.
Frankly I couldn’t tell you, but whatever the timeline is, I expect it will be much faster than before, as everything is.
There are a few very young politicians and new media commentators that know what’s up, and I think we should rally around them.
In the meantime, boycott as best as possible, build, develop and protect your community and funk up the authoritarian machinery at every turn possible.
The revolution will be federated.
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Responding to the collective movement of 2020 with endzone prints was a bad look. Removing them is an even worse look. It's like when google changed their slogan from "Don't be evil"
Yeah we all knew they were evil before, but when they stopped claiming to not be evil they got worse.
Well. This is that for the NFL. They did almost nothing to help their players and fans, and now they're doing even less.
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Now racism won't end at the end zones!
I feel like this is a great time to point out just how many of both teams playing in the Super Bowl are black (I didn't count them, but just take a look at their roster).
Interested to see how things play out. I'm hoping for protests on both teams when the game starts, but I'm worried what I'll get is a perfect example of why money is the root of all evil.
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Can’t be offending the Racist of the United States of America.
Imagine a world where every single POC quit on the spot. Goddamn, that would be beautiful.
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I think people are reading too much into this. They're changing it to 'Choose Love,' as an obvious shot at the orange-haired man who's never gotten a hug.
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Cowards.
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