For those watching the latest iteration of America's culture wars, the player protests in the National Football League are an object lesson in cultural insurgency.  The whole thing started last year when San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat out the traditional pre-game playing of the National Anthem.  Fans, outraged that he wasn't fired outright or at least benched under a "sit for the Anthem, sit for the game" policy, abandoned pro football in droves.  Kaepernick was released by San Francisco later in the year, and since then, no other NFL team has picked up his contract.  Now both the NAACP on one side and pro football fans on the other are calling for a boycott of the NFL.  This has put the League in a "damned if you, damned if you don't" situation and given it a headache of Solomonic proportions. A Platform for Social Change The National Football League is a true meritocracy.  Blacks make up 13% of...(Read Full Article)