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The professional football league is about to start its new season soon,
and you know what that means — MORE POLITICAL LECTURES! (Okay, fantasy football, but still…)

While some are still bleating about Colin Kaepernick not playing the
league is still dealing with the fallout from his protesting. With
ratings dropping, and discontent between ownership and activist-minded athletes, one solution thought upon was the creation of a social
justice committee, comprised of owners and players. This committee
would address and influence any number of social causes.

It was recently announced that one member would be stepping down, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. Initially, it sounded as if Ross would be
focusing on work with his own non-profit organization. However
committee member Chris Long, recently retired from playing, spoke with
Sports Illustrated and let it slip that Ross had in fact been pushed
out of the group.

https://twitter.com/SInow/status/1163885912960319488

To just suggest that maybe Long is not the deep thinker on these
matters, at one point he questions some motivations by the league as
sounding suspiciously capitalistic. He does not explain why that itself
is nefarious, nor why he is wearing a shirt promoting Gillette, which
is a capitalistic company, and which had surely paid for him to don on
the interview.

In the latter part of this clip Long attempts to underscore the
autonomy of their committee by using the recent example of the Ross
departure. “We just removed,” he began, before catching himself and
rewording. “Or got Stephen Ross to agree to be off a working group,”
Long states.

So you did not “remove” him, you convinced him it would be in his
interests to leave. What goes unsaid is why Ross, who was a founding
member of the social justice committee, was compelled to agree to
leave. After all, he has been a community supporter through his own
Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE), which has funded and
supported a large number off social issues.

But despite actually practicing the intentions of the committee Ross
was forced out. Why? Because he supports the “wrong” politician. Recall
all the recent outrage at Equinox, and Soul Cycle? Ross is chairman of
those companies.

Here is just one example of the unhinged reactions to Ross hosting a
fundraiser for President Trump.

Grant Stern
Trump's big supporter Steven Ross just got forced of the
NFL's social justice committee because he's a soul less
monster.

He also owns @soulcycle and @Equinox.

Feel free to boycott them.#TuesdayThoughts https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/sport/stephen-ross-miami-dolphins-nfl- social-justice-committee/index.html …

As stated, this “monster” helped form the social justice committee. His
RISE organization has long been carrying out the very community
activities the NFL social justice committee has been endeavoring to
promote. Along with that Ross started a separate initiative a few
seasons back where the franchise and the Miami players donate funds and
make efforts in the community to promote groups and organizations in
the area that support the same types of causes.

Good thing the NFL got rid of this kind of individual, because “Orange
Man Bad!”

Consider this: this league outfit just eliminated a man who enacts and
donates copiously to the causes they promote because he has the “wrong” political views — in the name of being inclusive.

And the NFL expects to be attracting fans back with this kind of
mentality.

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Watching Democrats come up with schemes to "catch Trump" is like
watching Wile E. Coyote trying to catch Road Runner.

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