This foray into the goings on of professional sports is a classic example of government involving itself in matters that have nothing to do with the matters of government. Politicians get their time pontificating before cameras while the debt, deficit spending, foreign military entanglements, declining freedom at home, that will all have to wait for televised committee meetings.
Vote-catching demagogues in Congress play to the social demands and tolerances of their constituents. The less people tune in to this kind of nonsense and the more they demand Congress do the things it is actually authorized to do in the Constitution, the better.
Having just celebrated the Fourth of July, perhaps a line from the Declaration would put this debacle into sharper perspective:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. (Emphasis added.)
