The NFL Can’t Fight Racism When Owners Support Trump
The league’s rhetoric conflicts with plutocrats’ political commitments.
by Jemele Hill
Jul 03, 2020
4 minutes
Last week, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, Stephen Ross, announced that he was committing $13 million over the next four years to RISE, a nonprofit he created in 2015 to address systemic inequality and racism. “Growing up in Detroit, I saw firsthand what racism did to tear apart our community, destroy lives and further inequality,” Ross said in a statement. “I started RISE based on the belief that our nation must address the scourge of racism directly to achieve true unity.”
This is the same Stephen Ross who, in August, hosted one of a pair of in the Hamptons that reportedly raised
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