OPINION:
Last Sunday I went to turn on the NFL’s “last game of the season,” the only game I was willing to watch after having boycotted the entire 2024 season. As we live in a land of 30 Black billionaires, I figured the league was finally moving on from its backward marketing of faux morality to the masses (“NFL ditches ‘End Racism’ slogan on Super Bowl field,” Web, Feb. 5).
However, while watching TV and thinking I wouldn’t have to deal with any insults, I got an unpleasant surprise. The NFL just had to ruin the only one of its games I’d planned to watch this year; it hired singer Ledisi to perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” otherwise known as the Black national anthem, which is a racist song.
I turned the TV off and have walked away from the NFL, never to return — and I’m taking my money with me. I will get a list of all the sponsors of this racist Super Bowl and never again buy their products or use their services.
There are 32 teams in the NFL, and they play 16 regular-season games, four preseason games and 16 playoff teams. Why did it wait until the last game of the year to sing the Black national anthem, leaving it out of the other 300-plus NFL games during the regular season?
Where is the Asian national anthem? What about the Latino national anthem? I want to know why we are neglecting two other large groups of NFL fans, ignoring their “unappreciated contributions” to our American Super Bowl experience during our greatest commercially marketed, prime-time exhibition.
JACQUES PORCHE
Las Vegas, Nevada
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