THIS was exactly the start of the season on the national sport that Donald Trump would not see. Amid the revelations of Trumps contempt for weak soldiers and private spill with the corona virus, came last night’s silent, scorching protest against the president in the season’s first game in American football:
- The national sport itself is united against racism Trump claims does not exist.
Three years ago, the leadership of American football endorsed the president’s demand that respect for the national anthem and flag should trump political markings. The recent police violence has changed everything. They once saw conservative bosses in National Football league (NFL) has announced that they now support the players’ marking against a brutal police and social inequality, no matter what these actions may be.
That opportunity was used by the reigning champions of the Kansas City Chiefs to invite guests from the Houston Texans to a quiet, united protest on the field against Trumps America, while the light board showed seven demands for social change.
This surprising action plagues Donald Trump’s law-and-order strategy leading up to the November 3 election. If match after match is like this, the NFL’s large TV audience will again and again be reminded of the abyss between the president’s boasting and the American reality:
- Now all NFL players are warming up for the game in black T-shirts with the caption «End Racism».
It rhymes badly with the incumbent president insurance that there is no systematic racism in his country. At worst for Trump affect this striking contrast between the president and the football heroes insecure voters.
For from tonight, American football has chosen side.
Rakner on the field
MENS the president has repeatedly said that he do not bother to see on a politicized national sport, the players from the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans took a joint showdown with Trump’s divided United States. It was a powerful celebration of the change of mood in the young United States:
– There has been too much talk about whether you kneel or not, and too little about what the point of this really is. Namely, social injustice and police brutality, said the home team’s star player Patrick Mahomes before the match, adding:
– The most important thing is not the gesture itself, but that we get something done. We want a more equal society where everyone can feel so safe that they can only live and care for those around them, stressed only 24-year-old Mahomes.
In all the talk about the NFL’s political conversion, Patrick Mahomes has always been thoughtful. What happened last night was not a stunt. It was a clear response to an American society being challenged to look at itself in the mirror.
Dive after the football noise
LAST winter won the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers. At that time, all the attention was on kneeling during the national anthem targeting the opponent, because the 49ers were Colin Kaepernick’s old club. And because using the biggest football matches to face politics did not feel vital.
Then it had long been lite kneling and quite a few protests on the field. Employers in the NFL have long been on the slip. The long-running conflict with Kaepernick had turned into a collaboration on social projects where the football clubs contributed several hundred million kroner. At the same time, the sport had gained new front figures for the fight against racism that did not cooperation so good with the Kaepernick icon.
Then suddenly there was a series of new incomprehensibly brutal police actions against blacks, the biggest football stars raged and the NFL leadership realized that they had to change their mindset radically.
Systematic racism was no longer a problem the American national sport could buy out of.
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THE is this total change this summer that has marked the season run – up to the reigning champions from Kansas City, and that has made Donald Trump so critical of the NFL.
Football’s complete turnaround meant that the president used his first public meeting in June to settle with the NFL:
– I thought we had won this match, he said in Tulsa, referring to the brutal fight Trump had with the activist symbol Colin Kaerpernick a few years ago:
– Get that whore son right off the field now, Donald Trump shouted at his supporters at the time.
In Tulsa this summer, the tone was a little more cautious:
– Where in the world did this NFL game come from mid-summer? No one has asked for it. We will never kneel under the national anthem or in front of our beautiful American flag. We will stand proud, and we will stand straight.
Trump is raging after the NFL’s complete turnaround
MEN back then, Trump settled the bill without including the biggest sports heroes. He did not see that they already had changed page. After the murder of George Floyd, star players Patrick Mahomes and Tyrann Mathieu joined directly the video bet «What if I was George Floyd»’S to Black Lives Matters, and was supported by his coach:
– It’s great that these star players are reacting, to Andy Reid: The 62-year-old who used to lose the biggest games before leading the Chiefs to victory in the Super Bowl in front of 110 million American TV viewers for the first time in more than fifty years. But who still had a pretty much bigger perspective on the coaching job than that:.
– I wish everyone had seen in our training how smart and caring all my players are, and how they want to take responsibility in society. That’s a bit of what’s coming now, he promised just before tonight’s series opener.
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FOR this time, most of all, the players wanted to do it in a way that gave maximum attention. That it was not just a question of who knelt, and who remained under the national anthem.
Tyrant Mathieu, who previously played for Houston, was central in the job of doing something with tonight’s opponent precisely to show that there is a whole sport that wants social change in the United States:
– I am 100 percent sure that we have maximum support in the entire football family. If there is one thing we want this match to be remembered for, it is precisely that the sport is now united, to he before the start of the match.
Then there was speculation that the teams would stay being in the wardrobe during the national anthem. That selection was chosen only by the guests from Houston, before they joined the home team’s program:
– We have discussed a lot. This is carefully planned. We do something together for all those who do not have a platform like us, revealed Patrick Mahomes.
Tonight, he and the other NFL stars have been on that stage, delivering the propaganda show Donald Trump would not see at all a month and a half before the presidential election.
Total silence for a new, more socially equal United States.
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