August 28, 2022 By Jonathan Barnes
In the last few years, the “Defund the Police” cry has reverberated through many of our cities. The police are not serving our communities, we’re told, and they’re wasting taxpayer money on ineffective services and driving racism. “It’s time to get rid of them,” many yell. They’re barking up the wrong tree. If the public wants to defund something that’s wasting money and not serving the community, then they should look toward pro sports and defund them...............
...........pro sports team owners like Rooney are just some of the robber barons of this age, although their greed makes Industrial Age billionaires like Andrew Carnegie look kind in comparison. Football barons threaten to take their teams elsewhere, goading local governments into donating millions for their stadiums without guaranteeing their teams will stay in perpetuity. The public is left with no ownership stakes, even though they paid most of the stadium costs for the team...............
Sports are also now dividing our
people along racial lines, thanks to team owners catering to the views
of many of their athletes. Rather than being thankful to live where
athletes with an eighth grade reading comprehension can become
multimillionaires simply because they can run fast or catch a ball,
sports heroes across America turned their backs on the police and the
government, blaming all white people for the problems of criminals like
George Floyd.........To Read More....
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