Don't be too surprised if Michael Bennett becomes the first NFL player to join the radical, pro-abortion National Organization for Women. He's crusading for women's rights and a whole bunch of other issues that prompted Lois Nam, a writer for ESPN's The Undefeated, to conclude the Seattle Seahawks' defensive end is "an activist disguised as a football player."
Nam's article portrays Bennett as a sort of super activist who crams a lot of social justice causes into his "38-hour days" as an SJW. She met with him on a Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota, where natives are oppressed, he says. She writes about Bennett's unusual thoughts on White people, girls and Black athletes. For instance, Bennett says:
Every day a white quarterback throws the ball to a black receiver, but when it comes to Black Lives Matter issues, they won’t step up and be like, ‘There is an issue.’
Don’t love us just when we catch the ball. Love us for our culture and what we’re going through and what we did in society and how we’ve been persecuted since we’ve been here.
We need your help.
Bennett doesn't seem to be "going through" much adversity as a member of the rich and famous who travels frequently to preach his liberalism.
“The thing that hurt me the most is," Bennett said. "I’ve played with white players my whole life … and there’s white players in the NFL that don’t speak up about social issues that are going on in black America, when you’re playing with us every single day. It just bothers me. It just makes me be like, wow.
Bennett also says it's simple for a lineman to block for black running backs, but it's a lot harder for that white blocker to go to the black ball carrier's neighborhood, see what he's doing there and be a part of it. This is absurd. Rich athletes are not living in depressed neighborhoods plagued by drugs and crime.
On another topic, Bennett says people love athletes until talk comes round to personal problems. Then "the hour-long debates turn monosyllabic: Sad. Scary. Tragic. Awful. Trite comments, awkward pauses, or worse, intentional silence. ... Nobody wants to be a fan of Junior Seau when he murders himself and commits suicide. They want to say, ‘Those issues are different.’ But those issues are issues that are happening in sports. Health issues, marital issues, how to raise a family, the concussion issue. Those are real issues that fans don’t want to associate with the game.”
Perhaps Bennett should spend some time in counseling with Dr. Dobson because he revealed some personal struggles. “I think dealing with emotional issues is a big problem with athletes in general because it’s hard. … The only time you can ever cry is when you win the championship. You got a newborn baby, you can’t shed a tear. … I think a lot of times, as athletes, you’re not able to do that. That’s like cutting the whole left side of your arm off, or your brain off, to not be able to be emotional.”
Women's issues weigh heavily on Bennett because he has learned firsthand (from Hillary?) "that we live in a sexist society. ... Every time I tell somebody I have a daughter, the first thing they tell me is, ‘You better get a gun.’ Sons prompt comments about running a successful business or becoming star athletes. Having daughters, though, leads to warnings such as “Your teenager’s going to be crazy” or “Make sure you keep her in the house.”
Nam writes that these kinds of comments insult the character of Bennett's daughters.
Bennett says, "Barriers are even higher for Black girls. The black woman has always been shown to not to be equally as intelligent" and usually as sex object.
The "SeaActivist" Bennett says corporations better be comfortable with his activism, or "I really can't deal wich you." And "Having that platform is super important to me to be socially conscious not to sell the people that are looking up to me different things that I know are not right.” But no mention by Bennett of Black rappers' lyrics degrading women and police.
Nam was absolutely right. Bennett is a social justice activist who squeezes in a little time for football. By giving him ESPN's slanted platform to speak his liberal mind without question, she comes off as an activist disquised as a journalist.
