Backing Black Lives

THE NBA )basketball) and the NFL (football) are, athletically speaking, overwhelmingly majoritarian African-American, much to the probable displeasure of America's conservative Christian white supremacist community. Ensconced within their anti Covid safety bubble, the NBA players are adorning themselves with not only teh usual team names and player uniform numbers,but also message like "Black Lives Matter" prominently displayed on their jerseys. The franchises, an all white billionaires club, mostly conservative, are possibly not happy with this arrangement, perhaps snarling beneath their billionaire breath, knowing it will alienate some viewers, but are strangely powerless to prevent this player's public plea for progress.The owners have money for a reason; they're smart, and they understand; if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, or at least let 'em self express. The NFL players are doing the same thing, as their tenuous under attended by design season of Covid contact football commences.Black Lives Matter, printed in bold letters in the end zones, all over the player's Jerseys, and so forth. Before the games, the players, seventy percent black, are gathering together for a bit of kneeling and are interlocking, while the fans, a large percentage of whom are right wing white men, boo mercilessly, thinking social commentary ought not be part of the pre game festivities. Millions of right wing American men, forced to choose between an ongoing never ending pay per view insulting affront to their latent racist right wing, or to turn off their cherished favorite team, just as the ball is kicked off. Donald Trump must be turning over in his grave, which is to say, the intellectual graveyard of his mind. As we sometimes say; too damned funny. Since the seventy percent of NBA and NFL stars are black, what can they do? all that blackness means nothing to the Trump loving self proclaimed not racist at all white right wing community, so long as the boys play good ball, win, and stay in their appreciative place, loyal to their systemically racist country, uncomplaining. It just too damned bad that the players don't exactly share the white right wing male version of thiri place in society, and that, after all, they are all too human, with feelings to boot.