NFL player angry he's not being covered by media during his National Anthem protest

His number does not matter

A football player on the Miami Dolphins, whose name I will not mention just to further piss him off, is upset with the media because they haven't mentioned him when he protests the National Anthem and thus disrespects our flag and country.

Speaking with the Miami Herald, the player accused the media of ignoring his raised fist every week during the National Anthem. What a photo op they're missing seeing this angry footballer raise his fist in the air rather than putting it over his heart.

"Y’all ignore it," he said. "Because when I gave my first message on trying to bring unity, y’all swept it under the rug. It’s not me. When you don’t give a problematic story, y’all just ran away. You’ve got this lady named Cyntoia Brown, or whatever her name is, and you sent her to life in prison because she was being sex-trafficked. But yet you guys dipped."

Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison in Tennessee for a murder she committed when she was 16. Activists have called for the courts to show more leniency in her case due to her young age, assuming she didn't know right from wrong and that the family of the deceased don't have the right to justice.

The Miami Herald did write about the football player's protest back in April when he described America as something straight from the pages of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

"The way America was built, and the way people talk .... The president said to build a wall to keep Mexicans out. This country was built off of — they killed Indians, built off the backs of the blacks. So yet, they tell us to keep quiet. So at the end of the day, let’s confront the situation and let’s bring humanity and friendship and let’s get rid of all the ignorance. Let’s face it head-on, let’s look at each other as humans. I always live by this one law: Treat each other like you want to be treated. You don’t ever want to smack someone in the face and don’t expect to get smacked back. It’s just that simple fact. Don’t treat someone bad and expect not to be treated the same way. That’s just how it is."

Following that report, the media mostly highlighted the protests of Dolphins wide-receiver Kenny Stills, whose kneeling attracted more attention than this player's racially charged power fist.

"Man, I don’t have nothing to do with Kenny," the footballer said. "That ain’t got nothing to do with me. All I’m saying is, my production went up because I’m just playing football and America’s got a lot of problems to fix within itself. Tell America to look itself in the mirror and the people who built it."

Perhaps this football player ought to look at how far America has come regarding racism and equal rights. He ought to look at other countries before deciding how terrible our country is. We aren't perfect, but we're the best nation on the planet in terms of rights and equality. The fact that he can raise his fist in protest isn't on the backs of blacks who have died for that right, but on all Americans who have  fought, and many who have died, for these rights.

If this player wants to end what he sees as racism, raising his fist in protest will do nothing but separate us further and do no good.

Sport is not the place for political speech. In fact, it is the one place where only talent counts and race or religion should play no part. 

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