well written, it is a shame that NOT ONE owner of any of these sports franchises has a spine to stand up to these pond scum commies holding THEIR asset hostage. Talk about insanity,which we have plenty of with our communist governor Sisolak,who has his head so far up his chinese masters asses,we here in Las Vegas have a brand new sparkling stadium,built at considerable cost to the tax payers of this state for the Raiders that these same tax payers are not going to be allowed access to because of this continuing hoax of a pandemic. No fans allowed on site...none of your visualized propaganda through the tell a vision in this house...you players are the walking definition of useful idiots...

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: American Sports Are Letting Down America - Imprimis
: by Jason Whitlock

: Nearly 30 years ago, in a 1993 Nike commercial, professional
: basketball legend Charles Barkley fired the first shot at
: the “role model” concept popularized by Columbia University
: sociologist Robert K. Merton in the aftermath of the 1960s
: counterculture movement. “I am not a role model,” Barkley
: proclaimed in the half-minute spot. “I’m not paid to be a

: role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball
: court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a
: basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.”

: Barkley’s words landed with a force every bit the equal of
: former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem
: knee 23 years later. Former Vice President Dan Quayle
: defended Barkley, while Barkley’s fellow NBA superstar Karl
: Malone criticized him in Sports Illustrated. Leading news
: magazines, including Time and Newsweek, published articles
: exploring the controversy. Newspaper columnists from coast
: to coast—on and off the sports pages—also weighed in. The
: topic still sparks debate today.

: Of the many phrases and concepts Merton coined—including
: “self-fulfilling prophecy” and “unintended
: consequences”—“role model” has had the most impact. On the
: surface, the argument that young people tend to model their
: behavior after high-profile, successful adults is harmless.
: However, in retrospect, the elevation of athletes and other
: celebrities as primary figures in the formation of
: behavioral norms for young people helped create the
: conditions that are powering the destructive Black Lives
: Matter movement today.

: Continues:

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: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/american-sports-letting-america/

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