Privilege

 

There’s a lot of talk these days about privilege. Those who have it and those who don’t.

For me, the definition of privilege might best be demonstrated by professional athletes who decide to not play their sport---who don’t work for their millions---while millions struggle to find work.

Do you believe that a professional athlete who decides to sit out a game----or games----will change one thing in the legal outcome of the outstanding cases in Minnesota and Wisconsin? I don’t. Juries will sort through the facts and decide the fate of the law enforcement officers charged in those cases. And a judge will sentence them if they are convicted.

It confounds me. Wouldn’t pro athletes be more of an influence if they were on television where they could be taking a knee, wearing specially-made T-shirts and showing solidarity with those who lack privilege?

I can’t find any definitive source that tells me that any of the NBA players who boycotted games last week lost one penny of their salaries. For the record, the average salary of a player in the NBA is $7.7 million dollars annually.

You heard me. $7.7 million bucks. And they haven’t even played all of their games due to COVID. That’s $50,000 an hour.

LeBron James has been canonized for missing a game on a day when one million Americans joined the unemployment line.

He didn’t do his job. They’d do anything for one.