This isn’t surprising.
Advertisers are no different from NFL owners in the fact they looks at black athletes as disposable bodies who are just around to promote their brand and not have true voices.
Marketers have put NBCUniversal on notice: Stop covering NFL players’ national-anthem protests, or we’ll pull our ads.
That’s according to Linda Yaccarino, the chairman of advertising sales at NBCUniversal, who spoke during a keynote interview at an event held Friday in New York at the ad agency RGA.
“Marketers have said, ‘We will not be part of the NFL if you continue covering it,'” Yaccarino said.
Going forward, marketers want more of the focus on games and less on the protests. Yaccarino said the NFL’s broadcast partners had not always aired the national anthem for each game — that is, until the protests gained steam.
Maybe if the NFL and President respected the players and actually addressed their issues it wouldn’t be such an issue, but because they are being called sons of bitches and inmates the players as the should are continuing to protests.