After another unremarkable NFL Sunday (being a Cleveland Browns fan), eventually I had to submit to reviewing the constant rhetoric of the unjust and racist treatment of Colin Kaepernick following his refusal to stand for the National Anthem. Some pundits have taken to the analysis of Kaepernick's statistics as a justification for his having a job. They assert that, truly, the only reason for this athlete to not have a job must be the rampant racism among the owners or GMs or Coaches or fans or whoknowswhat.
We could take a look at a representation of the demographic of players in the nfl to see if that's the case:
The NFL in recent years has been comprised of approximately 68% black people. The average NFL salary is $2.1 Million dollars yet some, including sociopathic race-baiter Shaun King, have condemned the NFL even going so far as to saying it's "run like a slave plantation."
I've prepared the following charts lest the speakers think they've not offended the memory and hardships of actual slaves
NFL ACTUAL SLAVE PLANTATION
Avg. $2.1 Million dollar salary No salary or rights of any kind
Play a game for a living Do back-breaking constant labor
Automatic fame and power Abuse and inability to even name self
The chart could continue for awhile, but I think we get the point.
There's another concept at play here that businesses have become so faceless that they've become equated with ambiguous job-spawning institutions. But all these teams have an obligation to be profitable like any other business, and a contract of employment is only a contract between EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYER AND NO ONE ELSE. It might seem like the NFL is a merit-based occupation, but none really are. Someone takes a risk on his own capital and forms a business and also takes the responsibility to hire employees that in his SOLE ESTIMATION can make that business more successful.
I highly suggest Colin Kaepernick to start his own football league where he can risk his own capital and have a hand in making the decisions of whom to employ. Until then he just sounds like me complaining that the coach "had it in for me" when I didn't make my high school baseball team . . . (but seriously I threw two no-hitters the year so screw you, Coach Cook)