MaKaria Harris - Nfl Protests

Many Nfl players have protested rasicm and discrimination recently by kneeling before and during the national anthem. Majority of the football players on the Houston Texans joined the protest because of their owner, Bob McNair, referring to them as inmates. He said that catering to the concerns of players about racism in the criminal-justice system was like “letting inmates run the prison.” 

Dave Zirin is the author of the article and is an American political sportswriter. He is against McNair’s statement and feels as though he’s only proving the point of the protests. I already knew that players were protesting and reading this article only made the protests more valid in my opinion. This article definitely relates to how blacks have always been looked down upon,because of the fact that the players (70% black) are getting compared to inmates and to think that many inmates are “bad black people” because of the systematic racism that’s in place because of the people who didn’t want blacks to have the same lives as them after enslaving and segregating them.

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-houston-texans-showed-the-power-and-dignity-of-black-labor/