Taking Sports into the Left Lane

The American Left seeks to do more than tear down statues, as one black sports columnist surmised. Jason Whitlock foresaw the NAACP's boycott to force an NFL team to sign free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick.  In criticizing Kaepernick's choice to kneel for the national anthem to protest police treatment of blacks, Whitlock saw something more insidious. "If his goal is to raise awareness around the issue of unfair policing involving black men, he is using a silence tactic no other activist has ever used and, at this point, it’s fair to question the effectiveness of his strategy," Whitlock wrote Aug. 17.  "But what if his goal is to drive a discussion focused on NFL ownership treating him in a racist manner?  "In that case, Mr. Kaepernick is serving as a Trojan horse for the progressive media’s attack on an iconic institution.  The NFL is the highest-rated show on NBC, FOX, CBS, ESPN...(Read Full Article)