I Make $10,000 Less???

In the wake of the wave of violence and heated racial rhetoric that swept through our country most notabley following the death of George Floyd, the NFL inexplicably choose to ignore the fact that 100% of their audience sought refuge from that reality when they tuned-in to watch their favorite team play.

Kneeling for the National Anthem was a protest embraced by some NFL players, and the league followed that much maligned gesture by adopting a series of more subdued, social justice slogans that have been placed both the back of the player's helmets and on the edge of the end zones.

Now, the NFL has chosen to push their social justice campaign in the form of public service announcements which air within the televised commercial breaks, the latest titled "Where I'm From". This new PSA contains a rather noteworthy and outrageous pronouncement--as detailed by Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you like the NFL, that was the greatest weekend
in the history of the National Football League. There's no argument,
no argument. Four games, huge playoff games, every single one
going down to the final seconds and the minutes before
the final seconds were all exciting. We just crazy back
and forth out of nowhere, too far behind to catch up.

(00:24):
Tom Brady added to his legacy in a loss. I mean,
because that was unbelievable what he did. That game was over,
absolutely over a snoozer, and all of a sudden it's tied.
I'm sanitatious. One thing that was going on during the game,
and I saw a number of amusing commercials, like really
funny commercials. This one was not funny. Made me angry.

(00:48):
This is an NFL ad right put on by the
National Football League. Yeah, it's part of their whole How
do we get the players to quit kneeling during the
national anthem and driving away all the fans settled because
they drove me to hell away and a lot of
my friends. But we've all kind of filtered back because
they've toned down the on field politics. Well, listen how

(01:09):
they have meaningless cliches on the back of their helmets.
But did they did they over the weekend? I didn't
notice that always, Yeah, like, what do they? What did
it say over the weekend? You know, I don't remember.
Does it vary from game to games? I think the
team's vote on which of the pre approved choices they
can go with be love, which I'm told as part
of Martin Luther King quote or it takes all of

(01:30):
us or end hate or whatever. Yeah, but this p
s A ran several times while I was trying to
enjoy from some football. Let me tell you about from
where I'm from, the digital divide makes equality nearly impossible. Well,
I'll get a job. I'll make ten tho dollars less
than white people with the same skills. Where I'm from,

(01:52):
we overcome off there. That's the part that really gets
my attention. So a young man stating, without context or
where's this data coming from, or what field are you
talking about whatsoever, just states flatly, for all the world
during the most popular TV show that exists in America,

(02:13):
and I'll get paid ten thousand dollars than whit less,
ten thous dollars less than white people who have the
same skills, just flat out just states it. So people
like my kids or whoever will see them. They going, well,
that's terrible. Or we live in a country where you've
got a white person a black person, you're gonna pay
the white person ten pounds or more, just flat out
because he's white, is which is what they're insinuating. Sure,

(02:33):
the accounting department right there, they'll check the box white
or black. Oh I'm sorry, you're black. You get ten
thousand dollars less. Sure. Now, I don't know what specific
job or stats they're using to back up that claim.
I'm sure they have something, but I'm guessing it's along
the lines of the whole men make, you know, x
times more than women. That has been debunked over and

(02:54):
over and over again when you dig into the statistics,
right right, I have a feeling it's a study by
an activist group that was about to make a predetermined point.
But you know, to just throw that around as fast.
How damaging is that for society, For people who don't
really pay attention to what's going on, to just state flatly, well,

(03:16):
we're a you might as well just said, and we're
a racist country. Wow, we're so casual about that now,