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The NFL this season has proven to be an ongoing battle after President Donald Trump fired shots against NFL players for taking a knee in peaceful protest against police brutality.
Colin Kaepernick started the protest last year when he took a knee during a San Fransisco 49ers game. For that Kaepernick was kicked off of his team and has been unable to get on any team in the NFL.
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ESPN host Jemele Hill is also received harsh treatment for her tweets calling the President a racist that resulted in an apology. But two weeks later Hill is suspended from her show for urging her followers via Twitter to boycott advertisers of the Dallas Cowboys. The reason being that owner Jerry Jones has ordered his players to stand during the National Anthem or they can face being benched.
With all that you wonder what else can be done to come against all of this injustice. Well, Diddy believes the solution is to buy the NFL league.
It all starts with Diddy commenting “Facts” on a tweet by Keith Boykin’s explaining that 70% of the NFL consist of Black players.
Soon after Diddy tweets about having a dream to own an NFL league but now wanting to own one saying, “A league where you can be yourself. Have a retirement plan.”
He finally ends with this:
If Diddy bought the NFL league, what would that look like? Would there be change? Comment down below.
