NFL PROTEST

Roughly 1,000 protesters are picketing outside the NFL's headquarters in New York demanding that Colin Kaepernick is signed by a new team. Yes, the very same man who turned the football field into his personal political playground and who forgot he was paid to play a sport, is somehow now a victim of racist owners who refuse to lose more paying customers by indulging his ignorant recollection. Yet, not one of these outraged activists have organized a single demonstration let alone mentioned the 6,000 black homicide victims of annual black crime, the roughly 40% on welfare, the highest unemployment rate of any racial demographic in the U.S., or the fact less than 50% of blacks currently own a home. Raising a fist of solidarity through social media or kneeling during the National Anthem does nothing to assuage the true source of urban America's struggles: the moral decay of our communities, single parent families, rampant crime and drug abuse, insufficient higher education and job training, a crumbling work ethic and a glaring lack of respect for ourselves, our fellow man and America itself.

These volatile public displays concocted in the name of "social justice" are little more than opportunistic grandstanding designed to seek pity, fame or undue concessions through mass coercion, rather than getting in the unoccupied trenches of societal change and working tirelessly towards solving these perennial problems. Unfortunately for the  resumes or Mr. Kaepernick, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, real "hope and change" requires responsible, competent leaders willing to lead by their actions - getting their hands dirty in the absence of fawning cameras and political agendas - without giving endless speeches, shouting racism at every misfortune and self-inflicted wound, or cashing seven-figure checks to further one's professional aspirations. If you're going to pawn off another decade of moral degradation, racial division and urban plight to the next sold-out generation of affirmative inaction, at least have the gall to admit the circus comes to town only once every four years. At least then the black community will know what the going price is for used stage props.