No it wont. Normal people are tired of being preached to when they are at a football game of all places. Ironically sports were at the vanguard of improving race relations in the United States. There's something to be said for showing rather than telling.

I agree, what’s that timeline look like for you though? 4 years? 8 years? The “wait” is gonna fuckin’ suck.

Crossing my fingers for the first trans president, though.

Also , the spineless viewers , musical artists, players, and advertisers that enable the whole event

Bend the knee

are you sure?

I like a society that openly makes racists uncomfortable for their beliefs. It lets them know they're unwelcome, even if it doesn't change their mind.

Silence is agreement, afterall.

Alternate story: Racist was going to go out and harass somebody today, instead he saw "end racism" on the TV and had an aneurysm

Or a T

I just love Today combining the two events (changing it; 1st prez to go) to make it obvious why.

Didn't they just end "ending racism"?

I, for one, have found racism considerably less appealing since reading this sideways in endzones. Thanks NFL for making me not a bigot anymore. I think blacks are probably fine now.

Unfortunately, those players make so much money that it moves them into the big club that we ain't in. Not a lot of class/race solidarity there, from what I've seen...just solidarity with whatever gets them paid.

Which I guess makes sense. The sport itself is extremely predatory, preying on young, very poor (usually) black men, offering them the promise of wealth they wouldn't normally have access to—if they just sell their bodies and physical health to the wealthier white men who own them. So they work their asses off all through high school and college to hopefully have the chance at the NFL; joining the league literally becomes the culmination of their life's work.

Not many want to actually rock that boat.

Hire all white people and the trump Nazis are perfectly happy?

Have you ever watched Rollerball (1975)?

Every single ~~Black~~ player. They're a team, and I'm willing to believe they respect each other enough to stand still for each other.

Fire all black people and somehow fault them for the whole thing.

At least if the rest of the country does not show solidarity and doesn't organize a general strike - which is illegal by the way.

In addition to what others said it sparks discussion when some asshole in the friend group complains about it and hopefully gets torn into or excommunicated or otherwise corrected by their peers

It also normalizes the idea by making it ever present. Even if people don't directly act on it, the message is there being presented as the normal thing society does. It pushes anti racism towards being an ambient condition by exerting a (slight) social pressure.

The message isn't to stop people from being racist. It's to stop the racists from being part of their fanbase. Macho sports are really susceptible to concentrations of assholes and they need to be actively discouraged or they will take over.