NFL, TV networks ignore worst offenders while promoting MLK's messages

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2022/01/22/tv-networks-nfls-hypocrisy-damaging-to-
racial-equality/

I’ve tried to understand it. For years, I’ve tried. But two-plus-two can’t
equal anything other than four. Thus, I can’t understand why racial
inequality, in either direction, can create racial equality. Can’t be
done.

Last Saturday night on CBS’s Patriots-Bills pregame show, host James Brown
narrated a solemn salute to Martin Luther King Jr., two days prior to MLK
Day.

CBS then leaned on the eloquence of Pats defensive back Devin McCourty, a
Rutgers man, to emphasize the legacy of Dr. King, one that must not be
forgotten. Amen.

But as I was watching a large chasm created by the mindless minds at the
wheel of the NFL could not be bridged.

Dr. King and his civil rights marchers, black and white, courageously
filed past hate-filled crowds of whites who called them “n—ers” or “n—-er-
lovers.” Dr. King lived — and died — to eliminate that most disgusting of
racial slurs.

So why, CBS, James Brown and Devin McCourty, has the NFL helped return
that hideous slur to the mainstream through the invited acts of black
rappers?

Why has the NFL continued to engage those who so shamelessly rap the N-
word and promote and sustain every negative black stereotype — from the
use-’em, dump-’em mistreatment of women, to drugs and booze, to guns, to
the conspicuous possession of wildly expensive and opulent cars and
jewelry as testimony to black America’s values?

And why does NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — who appointed vulgar, N-
word-spewing, top-shelf rapper Jay-Z as the NFL’s Minister of Social
Rectitude — continue to present such repulsive acts, especially in view of
the league’s annual salutes to Dr. King’s legacy, as those most favored by
the league?

Or is this is an element of Goodell’s plan to avoid being called a racist
at any and all costs?

Here we are again, another Super Bowl halftime “show” the NFL has assigned
to that, by Goodell’s own admission, he prefers to leave both undescribed
and unexplained as too vulgar for someone in his lofty position to
address, let alone publicly repeat.

He knows what’s going to happen. The NFL again will present to its largest
audience a show intentionally as low as it possibly can go. And he’s good
with that. Again.

The most willing accomplices are my brethren in the news and sports media.
They refuse to address it — they run from it — lest they, too, would be
called racists by those who have no sense or decency, beyond hopeful,
empty rationalizations. So they pull the covers over their heads, as if
that promotes genuine racial equality.

Matters of wrong from right have become matters of black or white — a dead
heat for last place.

Or are we to believe that calling black men the N-word and vulgarly
denigrating young women as cheap sexual discards can be rapped, let alone
spoken, in a good context?

During the Raiders-Bengals game last Saturday, NBC’s Mike Tirico twice
vaguely noted that the Raiders this season have had to “overcome
adversities.” Later, he identified veteran WR DeSean Jackson in the game
for Las Vegas.

Tirico didn’t say why Jackson was signed during the season, but he
replaced WR Henry Ruggs, charged with driving under the influence and
vehicular homicide for killing a young and hopeful immigrant woman as he
sped 165 mph on a Vegas street. No big deal, I suppose.

So there played Jackson, with one of Goodell’s “End Racism” messages
stretched outside the end zone. Yet the only proven racist in the house
was Jackson, who as an Eagle disseminated a tract borrowing from Black
Muslim hate-monger Louis Farrakhan and a wrongly attributed Adolf Hitler
quote to condemn Jews.

Had a white player expressed his admiration for the Ku Klux Klan, he’d
have been instantly and forever been done. But Jackson’s hideous, wildly
ignorant anti-semitism didn’t draw as much as a public rebuke from the NFL
office or Goodell. After an apology citing his profound ignorance, end of
story. Carry on, DeSean.

Now it seems that the Rams’ Aaron Donald trying to strangle a Cardinals
player during their game Monday night has been met with Goodell’s silence.
Donald, as of Friday, had not been fined, when a suspension was in
immediate order.

In Week 12, Donald, who has frequently been flagged and fined for dirty
play, was fined for trying to choke Packers offensive lineman Lucas
Patrick.

Donald, who might’ve been arrested for aggravated assault — there’s
certainly video of Monday’s episode — wears one of Goodell’s “Stop Hate”
helmet messages, another can’t-miss absurdity likely to be ignored on NBC
before and during the Rams-Buccaneers game Sunday.

But TV chooses to not offend the most offensive, while Goodell’s NFL
promotes racial justice and equality by featuring acts, on the NFL’s
biggest stage, that promote the sustaining worst of backward-pointed black
culture.

So last weekend, the NFL and its partner TV networks solemnly and soberly
saluted the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and his martyrdom for racial
equality. Coming up soon: N-word-spewing, rap-sheeted rapper and
pornographer Snoop Dogg, among similar others.

And I just don’t get it.

Too many gambling ads? Now too many Mannings
Reader James Heimbuch writes that the young blond DraftKings commercial
hostess — the one who borrows from strip clubs to declare, “Make. It.
Rain!” — is the most annoying commercial TV presence since the guy in the
Crazy Eddie ads.

Meanwhile, since sports gambling has become legalized, TV network
“experts,” who comically think they have fresh info and insights, have
proliferated.

As per CBS Sports’ website Wednesday: “Why unranked Alabama is favored
over No. 13 LSU.”

Why? Simple as it always has been: ’Bama, which won by three, was the home
team!

While we’re at it, the Manning Family, who appear in those lavish Caesars
Sportsbook commercials — the ones in which Archie, Peyton, Eli and Cooper
are paid to encourage suckers to lose their money — don’t include a
warning:

Once Caesars has your money, good luck having anyone from the operation
answer questions via phone or email. Online complaints about unanswered
questions about their money have piled up, especially on Reddit.

Furthermore, those with NYRA horse-betting accounts have been
involuntarily solicited by MGM come-ons, as the privacy of their NYRA
betting accounts have been violated, their names, email addresses and
other info landing in the hands of MGM — who negotiated a partnership with
NYRA, a deal for which subscribers had no seat at the table.

But I’m sure all the celebs paid to appear in betting app ads, like
Caesars’ — the Mannings and actors Patton Oswalt, J.B. Smoove and Halle
Berry — will get right on it to guarantee satisfaction as per the public’s
trust, appearance payments and their reputations. Sure.

Cheating OK, but losing is a no-no
I recall Arizona State football coach Darryl Rogers saying, “They’ll fire
you for losing before they fire you for cheating.”

An arbiter has ruled that taxpayer-funded Connecticut owes former
basketball coach (and player) Kevin Ollie $11 million in back pay over his
firing in 2018. UConn alleged Ollie was dismissed “for just cause” — i.e.,
violation of NCAA rules.

But that didn’t bother UConn during Jim Calhoun’s long tenure during which
the program was hit with NCAA sanctions for illegal recruiting. And
Calhoun recruited some shady young dudes with arrests to prove it.

Ollie’s last two seasons, however, were losing seasons.

The Jets last week held a sale of 65 percent off all team merchandise,
meaning they sold everything at a loss (not likely) or without an obscene
in-season markup.

Maryland assistant basketball coach Bruce Shingler recently was arrested,
charged with soliciting an $80 prostitute who turned out to be a cop. Hey,
not all recruits pan out.

After careful consideration, I’ve adopted a zero-tolerance policy. My
previous tolerance policy was 12 percent.



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