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NFL shelves "End Racism" Super Bowl message: Is it because President Trump is attending?

posted 17 days ago by TMC-4 (20484)
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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6112317/2025/02/04/nfl-end-racism-super-bowl-dei-trump/

The Athletic reported today that for the first time since February 2021, the Super Bowl will not feature an “End Racism” message in the back of the end zones. Instead, “Choose Love” and “It Takes All of Us” will be stenciled onto the back of the end zones at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The news comes at roughly the same time as the announcement that Trump is attending the Super Bowl in what Awful Announcing is calling "conspicuous timing." "The switch, conveyed internally to high-level employees earlier this week, could be perceived as a nod to the current political climate," reports The Athletic's Michael Silver. "Following the lead of recently inaugurated President Donald Trump and his administration, many corporations and institutions are abandoning their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. While (NFL commissioner Roger) Goodell said Monday he was ‘proud’ of the league’s diversity efforts, the decision to do away with ‘End Racism’ as a slogan led at least one high-ranking league official to express concern in light of Trump’s divisive words on the subject. However, NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy indicated that the decision was based on sensitivity to recent tragedies, including the terrorist attack in New Orleans’ French Quarter in January, the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area and the fatal air collision near Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C." As McCarthy explained: "We felt it was an appropriate statement for what the country has collectively endured, given recent tragedies, and can serve as an inspiration."

[–] [email protected] (6245) 17 days ago

Well if they really want to end racism in the NFL, there would be a helluva lot more white players!😁😁😁😁

But seriously, why have any political message or any message at all. Just play the d#mn game and sell as much beer and Coke and trucks as possible.

[–] Spacetimer8032 (249) 16 days ago

"there would be a helluva lot more white players!"

Funny that the NFL and NBA were never touched by DEI. 🤔

[–] [email protected] (6245) 16 days ago

The NBA and NFL were not touched by DEI because pro sports looks for the best. Team owners like to WIN and make lotsa money.😁

[–] [email protected] (6245) 16 days ago

The NBA and NFL were not touched by DEI because pro sports looks for the best. Team owners like to WIN and make lotsa money.😁

[–] [email protected] (6245) 16 days ago

The NBA and NFL were not touched by DEI because pro sports looks for the best. Team owners like to WIN and make lotsa money.😁

[–] [email protected] (6245) 16 days ago

The NBA and NFL were not touched by DEI because pro sports looks for the best. Team owners like to WIN and make lotsa money.😁

[–] BicD (310) 16 days ago

The NFL gives compensatory draft picks to teams that hire minority coaches or executives.

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 16 days ago

White players are given every opportunity to prove that they can play the games at the same skill level as their Black counterparts.. They just come up short...simple as that. The sports that whites do dominate in hockey, swimming, golf; etc...no one wants to watch.

[–] WandererFromYs (2406) 16 days ago

Funny that the NFL and NBA were never touched by DEI. 🤔

The Rooney rule is DEI.

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 16 days ago

Which had to be put in place because white owners refused to even interview Black men for HC jobs let alone higher them. This is further proof why DEI is needed in the first place.

[–] MiyagiDoMAGA (1632) 16 days ago

Prove it.
And fuck DEI and all of the various obfuscating names you attempt to pass it off as, no-one but losers need DEI.

[–] WandererFromYs (2406) 16 days ago

Which had to be put in place because white owners refused to even interview Black men for HC jobs let alone higher them. This is further proof why DEI is needed in the first place.

They were hiring black coaches before the Rooney Rule. Art Shell, Tony Dungy, Dennis Green, Marvin Lewis. Herman Edwards, Ray Rhodes. I believe everyone on that list was hired more than once as well, so the narrative that they have a shorter leash is bullshit as well.

It's just flat out racist. The Colts can name Jim Caldwell as the successor to Tony Dungy, and it ok, because he's black, but when the Seahawks named Jim Mora Jr as the successor to Mike Holmgren, it would've violated the Rooney rule. The only difference between the two is the color of their skin. That is the very definition of racism.

[–] MiyagiDoMAGA (1632) 17 days ago

Is there anything Trump can't do? He ended racism, finally! MAGA!

[–] MiyagiDoMAGA (1632) 16 days ago

Trump is allowed to build as many casinos on the Gaza strip as he likes as a reward for ending racism.

[–] TandyMan (11348) 16 days ago

Stop farting around and just put Doritos and Pepsi ads in the endzone. That's where this is going.

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 16 days ago

Trump is someone who deeply believe that only white men should be in charge of any and everything in this country.. That is what all of these attacks on DEI and Civil Rights itself have been about. He doesn't want anything to do with something that flies in the face of his white supremacist belief system..

[–] WandererFromYs (2406) 16 days ago

Only white men. You mean like Kash Patel? Vivek Ramaswami? Tulsi Gabbard?

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 16 days ago

These are nothing but sycophants who are in agreement with that ideology.. Vivek Rammy for one has been told many times by white people that they wouldn't vote for him because he was brown and Hindu.. He does nothing but smile; there is little to no pushback.. White supremacy has always needed these none white surrogates to aid in their agenda. That is what these three represent. It certainly isn't merit; as none of them should be in the position that they are in.. Is there any one in the country who can truly say that Kash Patel is the single most qualified person in America to head up the FBI; for crying out load?

[–] MiyagiDoMAGA (1632) 16 days ago

So not only white men like you claimed you dumb faggot? You're trash and you lost because you're lying goalpost moving trash, your pathetic ideology was voted against at the ballot box.
Keep losing.

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 16 days ago

Grow up..
Learn to control your temper
Get a vocabulary
Learn to express yourself better

[–] MiyagiDoMAGA (1632) 15 days ago

That's correct you were indeed proven wrong immediately because you're a lying cockknocker, well spotted.

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 15 days ago

You didn't prove shit.. You only continued to show just how freaking stupid that most of you are which was the very point of the video in my original post.. Idiots like yourself are slowly destroying this country.

[–] MiyagiDoMAGA (1632) 15 days ago

What video you dumb bastard, you haven't posted any videos ITT!

Sit over there in the "Shut the fuck up!" chair!

[–] WandererFromYs (2406) 16 days ago

No, that ideology is simply not held by Trump or any of the others. If he only believed white men should be in positions of power, he would only put them in positions of power period. He wouldn't find non white, non men who agree with him. If he were a white supremacist he would believe them to inferior to him. Why would he put them in position to do anything. He also wouldn't need non white allies. Supposedly white men control everything, why would they need non white surrogates? lol

Vivek Ramaswami was told that by Ann Coulter, and he handled it with class because he has the intelligence and emotional control to have a discussion without losing control of his emotions. You want him to cry racism and get emotional, but he doesn't do that. There are multiple videos of him trying to have a conversation with people that are trying to protest over one of his speeches.

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 15 days ago

Donald Trump is definitely a racist and is attempting to make the very hiring of Black people against the law.. Now he and his ilk will always hide behind their dislike of DEI. But make no mistake about it.. This is a return to segregation...full stop..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8day1Zof1fk

[–] StannisTheMannis (146) 15 days ago

lol as opposed to faggot racist liberals who use sycophantic immigrants who can't speak a word of english and engage in tribal , groupthink behavior as the standard of what all minorities should behave as, denying hard working non whites that have developed their own identities beyond cultural stereotypes the right to act American. All so that they can feel comfortable with their own inadequacies and failures in life

[–] liscarkat (19396) 16 days ago

Why would they? Trump has nothing to do with racism, other than ending it by abolishing racist DEI in the federal government.

[–] ColdBlood11 (222) 16 days ago

DEI is a bi-product of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.. It levels the playing field which has been unbalanced due to centuries of racism.. There is absolutely nothing racist about it.. Trump and his immediate blaming of DEI to that airplane crash; despite not knowing what had caused it was just one more way that he showed just how racist he is.. Then when they found out that one of the helicopter pilots was a white woman, he and his cronies tried to walk it back.. His whole life has been rooted in racist practices such as refusing to rent to Black tenants for which he was sued for and lost. The man is a total bigot..

[–] Sparky (2717) 15 days ago

If you want to end racism stop talking about racism- Morgan Freeman. The fact that they use it as a slogan tells you that their intention is to end nothing and profit from much.