
“It was necessary to keep our religious masters at At. Michael’s unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.”
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave page 96
It will be interesting to see how many of those who will be objecting to athletes not playing games in order to bring attention to the seriousness of addressing racial disparity, an action that in no way can be seen as disrespectful to the troops or the flag, will trot out the trope that athletes are millionaires and should not have anything political to say while cheering on Trump, a millionaire, for his bold call for a boycott of an American company that has stayed domestic since its founding that could result in loss of jobs with an effect of the economies of the places where these jobs are.