More fodder to call Lurie a racist.
I'm sure he said something wrong in this that a journalist can misconstrue to paint him a racist.
No. I think the biggest takeaway from this whole thing is recognizing there is a problem along with understanding institutions like the NFL and the government play a huge role in fixing this issue.
The problem I see people being offended by a protest drawing attention to real issues.
The NFL needs to have an active interest in this cause not only for its morality, but also it's impact on the social image of the league. The NFL can't survive as the league of old white men who call into sports radio stations. You are already seeing the league's ratings decline.
The most powerful part of that video the part about a person being unable to make $500 bail leads to them being stuck in a cage for potentially a year. You hear about this stuff, but until you realize how much of the system is built around incarcerating until they get around to hearing a case, it just drives you mad.
It's why no one would stand for this system if the elite of society had their sons and daughters stuck in jail without conviction on non-violent crimes.
People with police records can't get jobs, because that's the way it is, but do we want to live in a society that arrests black men disproportionately on drug charges? Society then turns around and tells those same people they aren't fit to clean toilets. We then shake our heads when people commit another crime and pretend our system played no role in this failure. That person was just a "bad hombre" as our President likes to say.
It's bullshit. People get elected for "tough on crime" messages. The NFL needs to take a role in highlighting this issue in the same way they score points putting the military, police, and fire departments on the field. Publicly funded stadiums should represent the entire community, not just the organizations who pay teams money for the honor to be on the field.
