The NAACP has decided that athletes should deprive themselves of career opportunities if those opportunities happen to be in Texas.
The NAACP is calling on athletes in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and WNBA not to sign with any teams based in Texas. This is in response to the abortion and voting reform laws passed in Texas recently, as well as the state’s response to COVID-19.
“If you are a woman, avoid Texas. If you are Black, avoid Texas,” the NAACP letter reads. “If you want to lower your chances of dying from coronavirus, avoid Texas.”
The letter itself is meaningless, as it is unlikely any athlete will reject a contract from a Texas-based team based on the politics of Texas (though it may be used as an excuse by athletes who weren’t going to sign there anyway). But the message itself is ridiculous, although it isn’t very surprising given that the NAACP is simply another partisan Democratic institution.
You can point to any number of recent examples. The organization ignored the historic 2014 election victories of South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former Utah Rep. Mia Love, simply because both happened to be Republicans. The NAACP opposes school choice despite how strongly it polls among black adults. The organization also opposes due process protections at universities, where black students are disproportionately affected by false accusations of sexual misconduct.
Much like other groups who complain about Texas’s benign voting reforms or that the state is avoiding senseless COVID-19 mandates, the NAACP is just another institution that is beholden to the Democratic Party. Asking athletes to sacrifice job opportunities and millions of dollars in contracts from Texas teams won’t cost the NAACP anything. The organization wants athletes to take the fall while it declares that conservative policies have no place in the country.
Again, the NAACP letter is little more than a meaningless stunt that will change nothing. But it is a reminder that every liberal interest group becomes part of the same intersectional blob, where Planned Parenthood opines on net neutrality and the American Civil Liberties Union fights against the Second Amendment. The NAACP is no different, and it is asking athletes to do all the heavy lifting on behalf of its partisan agenda.
