The NFL Season Is Upon Us and The African American Community Has been Told To Sit Down, Shut The Hell Up and Enjoy!

Keith Jay McGrew
Jul 10, 2017 · 4 min read

Hey, you… yes you! Beautifully gifted, informed and woke brothers and sisters. Yes, black folks. You dammit. Are you comfortable with the fact that the NFL has declared you its B — — — —!

I’m not trying to start a fight or ‘notin’, but the reason I ask is, I am, and I was hoping I wasn’t by my damn self in making this shameful decision. Sunday Football without negro fans would be like going to the corporate BBQ instead of the neighborhood Cookout. The stuff be really good, but it ain’t the same. You know what I’m saying…

In any case, I digress. I can’t wait for the start of the football season. The bad food choices that are inherited in watching football, the Sunday night recap and the Monday morning quarterbacking. The tailgating and the sports bars on Monday or Thursday nights, both if you’re well behaved and can garner permission from your wife (Bruh, don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about).

Yes, football is back and all that comes with it, including the complete disregard apparently of an entire race and a big portion of the fan base. Again, I’m talking to you, beautifully gifted, informed and woke brothers and sisters. Yes, you (us) black folks.

In the absence of football, we’ve spent the entire off season talking about football. One of the most talked about off season discussion has centered around the treatment of Kap (Colin Kaepernick, the former starting quarterback for The San Francisco 49ers), who has pretty much become Kap to black folks as we have spent the entire off season getting his back and talking about the fact that he stood for what he believed in, (well in this case) he kneeled for what he didn’t believe in (you know what I’m trying to say) and is now, it seems, being punished for his actions.

As we anxiously await the return of football and to express our outrage, we have discussed ad nauseam as to the many ways Kap is being done wrong. Some have gone so far as to suggest, instead of drafting some of these sorry young white quarterbacks (Mitch Trubisky, yes, you’re included in that) with no track record, teams could have given Kap that job and let him prove himself

Collectively; casual and hard-core fans alike have concluded he’s being penalized for his actions and is being made to pay the high price of being blackballed from football as retribution and as a message loud and clear to others by the NFL as if to say, nigga… don’t even think about it!

As a community, we have been outraged, we have dived head first into the conversation with righteous indignation, declaring team owners as racist, homophobic, and misogynistic; we just assume they are all the above, even if that’s not part of the narrative (they would have to be right? Right?)

But noooooo; Kap ‘gotta’ be punished, Kap needs to learn a lesson, Kap needs to be an example for other misguided Negros who get a notion to get beside themselves, of what can happen when you get out of line. This is a modern day public lynching in every sense of the word.

Needless to say, this action on the part of the NFL has offended us to our core. We are outraged, we are incensed and disgusted by this behavior on the part of these plantations (I mean) team owners and well…

That is of course where it stops, it doesn’t go any further than that. You see, we’re not going to do anything about it, we are not going to protest with our feet by not going to the games. We’re not going to protest with our collective wealth by boycotting the products advertised by the league. We’re not going to turn the TV off and simply not watch and drive down the ratings. In fact, we are holding our collective breath, anticipating the start of the season, so that we can do all the things that add life to the incredible experience that is the NFL.

So even if you don’t acknowledge it, (pride comes before destruction) it’s nevertheless true, you, like me, have resolved that the NFL has made black folks its B — — — — and well, we’re OK with that.

See you at the BBQ, I mean Cookout!!!!

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