导出博客文章The kneeling was noticeable quickly enough. To some, the raised fists seem
almost ominous.On the first week of the NFL season there was almost as much
going on during the national anthem as there was on the field. Players were
making statements, and they didnt seem afraid of disrupting the highly
choreographed spectacle that is an NFL game.At some point the league may have to
find a way to deal with the newfound social consciousness of some of its
employees. Theres no upside for the NFL if images of players holding clenched
fists aloft during the national anthem begin to overshadow those of men
colliding with each other on the field of play.So far that hasnt happened,
though the season is young. Still, the sight of players making silent protests
during the national anthem has to be disconcerting to a league that has always
demanded conformity and blind obedience from its workers.It barely qualified as
an NFL issue before Colin Kaepernick took a knee during an exhibition game. Now
Commissioner Roger Goodell walks a fine line, voicing support for the right of
players to speak out while in the same breath saying he wants them to respect
the flag and most everyone who has ever put on a uniform.Goodell has so far been
relatively restrained, and he has reason to tread lightly. The league he heads
has profited greatly over the years, in no small part because it wraps itself
around the flag and embraces the military and police at every opportunity.But
two-thirds of its players are black. And they -- fueled by the constant feedback
from social media -- are finding their voice about things they see wrong in the
communities they grew up in.And sports may never be the same.I think weve come
to a point in the history of sports that really for the first time in my
lifetime -- and Ive spent 50 years doing this -- youre seeing athletes getting
involved in social justice issues, said Richard Lapchick, director of The
Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central
Florida. You had the occasional heroic athlete stand up in the `60s or `70s, but
they were very few and far between and they paid the price for it.Some may pay
the price for this, too. Denvers Brandon Marshall quickly lost two endorsements
after he took a knee before last weeks opener. The outcry against Kaepernick and
others on social media has been ugly at times.And in a league where players are
desperate to make rosters, it wouldnt be a surprise if taking a stand meant a
greater chance of being told to hit the road.That wasnt an issue when LeBron
James and fellow members of the Miami Heat donned hoodies in 2012 for a team
picture in support of slain Miami teen-ager Trayvon Martin. Too much star power
there, and the NBA is a little more socially aware than the NFL.Lapchick points
to the hoodie protest as the start of a new generation of athletes becoming
socially active. Some WNBA members also took a stand, wearing warmup shirts on
behalf of Black Lives Matter this summer.The handling of that by the WNBA was
botched a bit, and surely the NFL learned lessons from that. Goodell has said
all the right things so far, but its still early in the game.Its an issue that
sports is going to have to make an informed decision on how they are going to
treat it, Lapchick said. This isnt something that is going to go away, whether
its in the form of the national anthem or wearing T-shirts or other
paraphernalia. From my viewpoint its here into the indefinite future.That may
worry some, but it pleases Lapchick to no end. Hes not only crusaded for civil
rights his entire life, but paid the price for it himself.Lapchick was a
5-year-old when he looked out his bedroom window in New York to see men hanging
an image of his father. Joe Lapchick was the coach of the New York Knicks, and
his crime was to sign Nat Sweetwater Clifton, the first black player in the NBA
in 1950.Years later, as an anti-apartheid activist, Lapchick was attacked by two
men in a library at Virginia Wesleyan College, who held him down and carved the
N-word into his stomach.Hell be watching closely as Goodell navigates his way
through uncharted waters. Well all be watching to see how a commissioner who
fancies himself to be a disciplinarian deals with things that discipline cant
solve.The way the NFL handles anthem protests may turn out to be as significant
in the long run as the protests themselves.----Tim Dahlberg is a national sports
columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or
http://twitter.com/timdahlberg
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