On Friday's Speak for Yourself TV sports talk program on Fox Sports 1, co-host Jason Whitlock (see photo) characterized NFL Players' Association executive director DeMaurice Smith as a "foolish looter burning down his own neighborhood" and demanded his firing. The NFLPA has reportedly hired several lawyers to fight the league's new policy requiring players to respect the national anthem or remain in the clubhouse.
Whitlock said, "The NFL Players' Association should fire its executive director, DeMaurice Smith. According to the site Pro Football 'Woke' (officially known as Pro Football Talk), and its editor Mike Florio, Smith and the NFLPA have hired multiple law firms to research potential lawsuits to fight the league's new national anthem policy. I'm not joking. Although I wish I was." Whitlock said these players are being misled by Smith into biting the hand that feeds them, threatening the prosperity of the NFL:
"Why would Smith lead a national anthem fight that damages the brand, that enriches the players? Does he not understand his job? Has he taken the time to explain to the players that this national anthem fight is de-valuing the brand of the NFL players, is making them polarizing?"
Whitlock blamed the foolishness of the players on their youth and says it's easy for them "to get swayed by groupthink, rebellious anti-establishment fads and other forms of liberal stupidity." But Smith is 54, doesn't have the excuse of youth and "should easily recognize when he and his union are being played like a banjo by forces determined to destroy the sport, the league and the industry that enriches his union members. That's what's happening here."
In February, Smith said his union is preparing for war over the next collective bargaining agreement in 2021, prompting strong words from Whitlock: "He (Smith) clearly can't see the big picture. No rational black man would want war with the NFL. Smith is a foolish looter burning down his own neighborhood. He should be fired posthaste."
The destruction of football is an inside job, Whitlock says:
"Smith, Colin Kaepernick and a handful of black players have been manipulated into undermining the American industry that has produced more black male millionaires than any other industry -- football, with an employer-employee base that is 70 percent black and is at the top of the American entertainment chain. It's an unmatched cultural force. It's No. 1 on five different television networks. It's a thousand times more popular and powerful than Oprah Winfrey in her prime. They are a group of people with a certain political view who don't know football's place in our culture."
Whitlock says NFL players can spend three minutes on game day and join the overwhelming majority of their fans in recognizing we're all lucky to live a country where descendants of former slaves can rise to the presidency, the head of the NFLPA, multi-millionaire wide receiver or filthy rich gangsta rapper. "Or they can stay in the locker room and build their Twitter followings by symbolically feigning concern for the plight of poor people of color by reigniting a conversation about the appropriateness of protesting during the national anthem."
Whitlock's courageous voice stands out above the herd of sheeple in sports media who blindly follow the liberal lead in support of the disrespectful protesting athletes.
