Louisa Thomas writes about the removal of the slogan from the field at the Super Bowl, and the stakes of the N.F.L.’s diversity efforts.
The “END RACISM” inscriptions were silly from the start. The slogan was part of the Inspire Change initiative that the N.F.L. launched in 2019, more than two years after Colin Kaepernick, who was then the San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback, began kneeling during the national anthem in protest of racial injustice and police brutality. Kaepernick, by then, was out of the league; his stand had made him radioactive.
Only one team has been fined for obvious abuses—the Detroit Lions, for two hundred thousand dollars—and many haven’t suffered any consequences at all, even, in at least one case, when the owner more or less admitted that the minority candidates had very little chance. Violations are easy to see but hard to prove.
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