{"id":71089,"date":"2025-08-15T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71089\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:41:12","slug":"nfl-will-continue-to-put-social-justice-message-in-end-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71089\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL will continue to put social justice message in end zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the league will admit it or not, it\u2019s currently engaged in a high-wire regarding diversity initiatives, with a desire to do the objectively right thing on one hand and an urgency to placate certain political forces on the other.<\/p>\n<p>As it relates to the messages that have been painted on the back lines of end zones since 2020, those will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Via the Associated Press, all 32 teams will have <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45980984\/nfl-teams-again-stencil-social-justice-messages-end-zones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">one of four messages<\/a> at the back of one end zone: End Racism, Stop Hate, Choose Love, or Inspire Change. At the back of the other other end one will be the message, \u201cIt Takes All of Us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the reality. Some messages will invite less scrutiny from anti-DEI types than others. Choose Love, Inspire Change? Fine. End Racism, Stop Hate? Tread lightly.<\/p>\n<p>That said, \u201cEnd Racism\u201d will be the message for each of the four international games. And the Eagles will rotate through all four messages.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos for the NFL to not <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/vikings-continue-diversity-summit-despite-nfl-scrapping-accelerator-program-for-may-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">suspending or postponing or pausing<\/a> the end-zone messages. Especially if the gesture at some point triggers a social-media attack and\/or a suggestion that the effort to acquire 10 percent of ESPN could be scrapped unless the messages are erased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether the league will admit it or not, it\u2019s currently engaged in a high-wire regarding diversity initiatives, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-71089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}