The NFL Draft and Slavery

[Big Daddy]

It's an oft made comparison

What do you think?

I put myself in the shoes of draftee and I'm not sure that I'd turn down the opportunity to go pro solely because of the slave connotations (which are valid and not to be diminished). I'd get my paper and raise my family/community.

But isnt that the very definition of a "sellout"? Selling out my soul and dignity, and knowing it, but doing it anyway?

 

[Box Factory]

Dumb and disrespectful comparison

 

[Jplaya2023]

no just no, please don't compare this to slavery or reference anything saying so.

 

[Johnny Kilroy]

The massa's plan They knew pro football was the future.

 

[Big Daddy]

Dumb and disrespectful comparison

no just no, please don't compare this to slavery or reference anything saying so.

There's no question as to there being parallels between the NFL DRAFT, and the trading of Black slaves.

That is not for debate. One more denial of it and I'm going to question if you're even BLACK.

The discussion pertains to what should these athletes do in response? I mean can we really expect them to just not play pro ball? fukk no. I wouldnt sit out either. But then what, how do we approach this? Or do we say fukk it and keep letting cacs have their mock slave trades? Long as they're paying us, right?

 

[David_TheMan]

Its so demaining and unneccesary.
There is no reason for these men to be paraded in front of press for this bullshyt.
All this could be done with doctor visits in private.
I don't understand why its accepted but it is what it is.

 

[010101]

keep letting them associate black with slave
you could just as easily put images of european slaves next to images of palebone draftpicks
but dumb nikkas let them push slavery as being exclusively black history

fukk outta here with that bullshyt

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[Tide Run This]

That slave Mitch Trubisky yall

 

[Jplaya2023]

There's no question as to there being parallels between the NFL DRAFT, and the trading of Black slaves.

That is not for debate. One more denial of it and I'm going to question if you're even BLACK.

The discussion pertains to what should these athletes do in response? I mean can we really expect them to just not play pro ball? fukk no. I wouldnt sit out either. But then what, how do we approach this? Or do we say fukk it and keep letting cacs have their mock slave trades? Long as they're paying us, right?

FOH

I bet kunta kinte would gladly trade working 20 hours a day picking cotton, taking whippings, no food, water, clean clothes, nutrition, etc... to play for the browns where he will make more than 99% of people on the planet. FOH

 

[Cynic]

it's stupid .....

 

[Tide Run This]

NBA combine never get this comparison

 

[Box Factory]

There's no question as to there being parallels between the NFL DRAFT, and the trading of Black slaves.

That is not for debate. One more denial of it and I'm going to question if you're even BLACK.

Im not black.

The parallel would be them being judged for their athletic ability/strength. Beyond that its an incredibly terrible comparison

You choose to go in the NFL draft. You become a millionaire and you play a game. You can skip the combine and all workouts

Slaves had no choice, slaves had their lives and freedom of will stolen from them and endured some of the worst treatment in the history of mankind.

Its disrespectful to compare what they went through to running a 40 and doing a vertical jump

 

[mrken12]

This thread gets made every year and it's always been a bad comparison.

 

[BucciMane]

Right.

Being measured and tested athletically to have a chance to make millions of dollars, go places many people never go, have access to many amenities in destinations that people don't have, and have many people looking up to you is certainly the same as working 20 hours a day in a cotton field, getting raped by a slave master, and then getting whipped for no reason other than being black.

Moron.

 

[Tide Run This]

That plantation owner hue jackson