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Lebron james is concerned that the exclusive club of NFL owners is made up of old white men who regard the players as slaves. The preponderance of old white dinosaurs in positions of power throughout society is oppressive; I hope it is broken sometime soon, and not by another generation of old white men! They're strangling the country.
I think player protests are good - games are great venues, the players have huge followings, and (for example) the cause of racism in law enforcement is undeniable. But I think this name-calling is not going to help his cause; in fact, I think saying owners are acting like slave owners is amusing. They are not acting like slave owners, they are acting like employers. Which LeBron has no way of knowing because, though he works hard, he doesn't have a real job. In every business, the employees are what make the business go; and in nearly every business, employers set standards for workplace conduct.
In my experience, it's a very rare management team that would tolerate political protests during work hours, on privately-owned work property. This strikes me as a squabble among a small club of naive princes; the owners are social dinosaurs who are out of step with their audience and the world in general; the players are prima donnas who perfer to pretend that they are not, when all is said and done, employees. LeBron is a once-in-a-lifetime player; but even in professional sports, there are examples over and over of players who've been languishing on some team's bench rising to elite levels when they get more of a chance to play, and they provide a lot of entertainment to fans in the process. If LeBron didn't exist, would fans still watch the NBA? Yup.
I find it very hard to believe that this passion play put on by squabbling millionaires is doing anything but pouring oil on the fires raging between rightist reactionaries and "liberals". What do you think?
He went on to say how the NBA was more accepting of players' opinions, less dictatorial.LeBron James said:
I think player protests are good - games are great venues, the players have huge followings, and (for example) the cause of racism in law enforcement is undeniable. But I think this name-calling is not going to help his cause; in fact, I think saying owners are acting like slave owners is amusing. They are not acting like slave owners, they are acting like employers. Which LeBron has no way of knowing because, though he works hard, he doesn't have a real job. In every business, the employees are what make the business go; and in nearly every business, employers set standards for workplace conduct.
In my experience, it's a very rare management team that would tolerate political protests during work hours, on privately-owned work property. This strikes me as a squabble among a small club of naive princes; the owners are social dinosaurs who are out of step with their audience and the world in general; the players are prima donnas who perfer to pretend that they are not, when all is said and done, employees. LeBron is a once-in-a-lifetime player; but even in professional sports, there are examples over and over of players who've been languishing on some team's bench rising to elite levels when they get more of a chance to play, and they provide a lot of entertainment to fans in the process. If LeBron didn't exist, would fans still watch the NBA? Yup.
I find it very hard to believe that this passion play put on by squabbling millionaires is doing anything but pouring oil on the fires raging between rightist reactionaries and "liberals". What do you think?
