Owners like Kelly Loeffler, Dan Snyder and Woody Johnson shouldn’t be pushed out for their views, but for their behavior if that behavior promotes hate toward marginalized groups
Not all monuments to our racist past are made of bronze or flutter on flagpoles. In sports, the offensive monuments are clueless owners of teams who may look like flesh and blood, but when it comes to embodying the racism of those hastily removed Confederate generals, they still sit high upon their pigeon-befouled pedestals. They are as frozen in time and as impervious to social change as their metal counterparts.
The recent mass protests across the country calling for racial equity seems to have achieved some progress toward the elimination of systemic racism. Public statements were issued. Money was donated. Pledges were made. In the sports world, many teams spoke out eloquently in support of Black Lives Matter and launched programs to prove their sincerity. The professional sports world has tapped into the overwhelming and very public zeitgeist of protestors seeking equity for all. But, as many long-time activists like myself have warned, we have to be careful of those owners who seem to be biding their time for all this social consciousness to be gone with the wind.
