Texans Won’t Consider Free Agents Who Kneeled Against Racism & Police Brutality Because of Their MAG





CEE DOG said:
Of ninety percent of the black fans stop supporting his team he would change his mind. The bus boycott worked because blacks took one for the team and made it work. To bad we have sold out to belong and make these pilgrims rich.
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These local black ppl love the texans so that isn’t happening.
 



The Texans sort of confirmed it with the statement they put out. That last part does it for me, "Fit within our organization".

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That's fine, I don't support any NFL team anyway. I stop caring for the NFL decades ago.

And it should be no surprise the rich old white Republican men that run these franchises couldn't care less about their black players courageous stand for justice and positively impacting they communities come from.
 
If L.A. had their act together, a different decision may have been made on who got a team in 2002. Yes, Kubiak did finish 2-14 in his last season in Houston when the team had huge expectations, but he has a Super Bowl ring as head coach. I am not expecting a Super Bowl run by this team anytime soon-even with Watson as their quarterback.
 
EB said:
I agree with former Morgan State football player and graduate William Rhoden. The NFLPA blew it. This could have been a start for the upcoming negotiations, but the union is already behind before the negotiations get started.

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Players union boss DeMaurice Smith lost the ‘war’ against owners by not fighting for Kaepernick
Not recognizing the QB’s blackballing as a labor issue will hurt all players in next collective bargaining negotiations

BY WILLIAM C. RHODEN
February 5, 2018

The NFL’s season has come to an end. The Philadelphia Eagles made history Sunday by winning the city’s first Super Bowl title, upsetting New England in a record-setting performance.

The Eagles’ historic victory also ended a tumultuous football season defined by protests and introspection.
Sunday’s game underlined a point that seems obvious but is often overlooked: Players make the game. Owners provide the accoutrements, fans give their support, but players, playing a violent game without guaranteed contracts, make the game.

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The free-agent quarterback, who became a league darling when he led San Francisco to the 2012 Super Bowl, has remained unemployed. For that, he represents a complex but clear labor issue.

Yet, Smith’s union has remained on the sidelines, allowing what clearly is a labor issue to be defined, framed and reframed as an issue of social justice and patriotism.

As team after team passed on Kaepernick for one reason or another, the NFLPA should have framed his unemployment publicly as a deeply concerning labor issue.

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I wonder what Donald Fehr or Mavin Miller, baseball's reps, would have done. I remember Gene Upshaw's early days with the NFLPA. Then I also believe in redemption.
 
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