Ray9
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I try to watch baseball with cardboard fans, but it is just not the same. If we get any football this year cardboard fans are not going to cut it. I was already disillusioned with knee taking and being held hostage to racism I never committed. Many sports, once escapes, have been hijacked by politics and were already losing me.
I have never been a big basketball fan. It is non-stop action to the point of boredom and the constant scoring is as monotonous as watching the hour hand on a clock for two and a half hours. Still, there are those who like it. The sport is eighty percent black and that by itself is not a problem. The problem with basketball is that it has become platform to accuse white America of being racist. That cannot continue if the sport of American basketball is going to survive.
In fact, no American sport will survive at profitable levels if politics infects it to its core. With a national health emergency underway now is good time to examine the social consequence of pastimes designed to be timeouts from the serious side of life that have become stages for trials and accusations. People might just eventually find something else to do with their leisure time.
The health crisis will abate but the commandeering of American sports by politics may mean that some will never recover to their former levels. People want to cheer and feel good. They do not want to be accosted by political activism.
American sports may have pressed the self-destruct button with Colin Kaepernick.
I have never been a big basketball fan. It is non-stop action to the point of boredom and the constant scoring is as monotonous as watching the hour hand on a clock for two and a half hours. Still, there are those who like it. The sport is eighty percent black and that by itself is not a problem. The problem with basketball is that it has become platform to accuse white America of being racist. That cannot continue if the sport of American basketball is going to survive.
In fact, no American sport will survive at profitable levels if politics infects it to its core. With a national health emergency underway now is good time to examine the social consequence of pastimes designed to be timeouts from the serious side of life that have become stages for trials and accusations. People might just eventually find something else to do with their leisure time.
The health crisis will abate but the commandeering of American sports by politics may mean that some will never recover to their former levels. People want to cheer and feel good. They do not want to be accosted by political activism.
American sports may have pressed the self-destruct button with Colin Kaepernick.
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