A knee for bigotry

70% of the NFL's players are black men and 98% of the owners are white

The incredible images last week of the owners of National Football League (NFL) teams linking arms in solidarity with their players during the American national anthem attracted widespread attention for the sharp public rebuke they represented by some of US President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters and financiers for his crude racist rant in Alabama. But look closely at those images and you’ll see another kind of implicit racism before you, and it will make you just a little cynical about the motives for the team owners’ decision to join the protests.
 
Most of the players are African-American. In fact,