After years of pleading with their league to act against systemic racism, NFL players were prepared to wait another 10 seconds to make their point. So we’ll just stay inside until it’s time to play the game,” Miami players said in the video. Since then, the league has taken largely symbolic steps like allowing racial justice messages in end zones and on helmets and T-shirts. Some team owners have pledged money toward social justice causes or offered their stadiums as polling places for the November election. And it needs to stay a hot topic until some legislation’s passed to hold people accountable and for total reform.

Source: thestar September 13, 2020 20:26 UTC