Shedeur Sanders may or may not become a great NFL quarterback, but the sheer drama surrounding his draft selection will not soon be forgotten.
Memories of the reactions of people who went apoplectic over him being hailed as a first-round draft talent to an eventual fifth-round pick might conceivably last longer than his NFL career. Yet because of his fall from grace, somehow, in a sports league composed of mostly black men, in a draft in which most of the people selected were black men, where the first overall selection was a black quarterback, some people are starting to ask: Is the NFL racist?
As shocking (and utterly ridiculous) as some may find it to ask such a question, this is the reality of American society in 2025. It’s the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in society that causes people to jump to accusations of racism over where a black athlete was drafted in a sports league worth billions of dollars, composed mostly of black athletes, who are worth millions of dollars. Consider the outlandish accusations by some sports commentators, pundits, and former congressmen.
First, there was sports talk commentator Skip Bayless. The septuagenarian accused the NFL of being racist for Sanders being drafted in the fifth round. In a league where the first draft pick in 2025 was a black quarterback, the first draft pick in 2024 was a black quarterback, and the majority of the players drafted every year are black men, somehow, to Bayless, Sanders dropping to the fifth round was due to racism. He said the NFL stinks and smells of “racist undertones” and asked if there were “too many white people in charge in this league.”
The same white people, mind you, who supported and committed hundreds of millions of dollars to radical left-wing social justice, race-based initiatives implemented by the NFL. But I digress.
Too many white people in charge because Sanders was drafted in the fifth round? This kind of racial bigotry and prejudice is only reserved for white people in 2025. If Bayless had accused any other race of people, it would have cost him his job. Imagine anyone, anywhere, making any comment, starting with “too many black people.” Yet, such bigoted, prejudiced, and outlandish statements are tolerated and repeated by the masses.
Sports talk commentator and former NFL player Emmanuel Acho also hinted that racism played a factor. However, instead of having enough guts to cite racism, Acho convoluted the reasoning and blamed a phenomenon called “code-switching.” But, at its core, Acho thinks it was racist white people who caused Sanders to fall in the draft.
“He didn’t code switch,” Acho said in a post on X. “What do I mean, ‘he didn’t code switch,’ Shedeur Sanders did not change his identity or how he comes off for the sake of the decision-makers and who are the decision-makers in the National Football League primarily non-minorities, primarily White people, he did not code switch, he stayed true to Shedeur.”
I guess that means the black quarterbacks and dozens of black players drafted ahead of Sanders are sellouts? They are people who, based on Acho’s logic, didn’t stay true to themselves. It’s nonsense, and these fanatical and unhinged assertions, predicated on degrading white people, are insufferable and should be intolerable.
Former congressional representative and fire-alarm-pulling enthusiast Jamaal Bowman demonstrated his anti-white bigotry and prejudice by offering his comments as to why Sanders was not drafted higher. Similar to Bayless and Acho, the socialist and former congressman blamed white people.
“The NFL doesn’t like Sanders because he wears gold chains and talks like a rapper,” Bowman said.
Of course, this description can apply to many of the players drafted this year, last year, or ten years ago, or even to many of the league’s current star players. And these comments came from a former U.S. congressman. Bowman didn’t stop there. He continued his insults of white people and claimed they feared “strong, black, confident men.”
“America continues to fear strong black men who come from means and have a strong sense of themselves without submitting to the ‘dominant’ culture,” Bowman added.
Through their quick, feeble attempts to blame the white man for not liking “strong, confident, black men,” these race hustlers essentially implied that black quarterbacks drafted in the NFL in 2024 and 2025, such as Jayden Daniels, Cam Ward, and Jalen Milroe are weak, timid, unconfident men who aren’t “true to themselves.” They are so eager to blame white people that they don’t care about the black men who were collateral damage in their commentary in a rush to promote their anti-white bigotry and prejudice.
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As for Sanders, it couldn’t be his fault that his draft stock fell, right? It couldn’t be poor performances against the better teams he played. It couldn’t be that he had no wins in any bowl games or that he did horribly in the only bowl game he played in. It couldn’t have been his mediocre record as a starting quarterback in a weak college football conference. Nope, it had to be the white man’s fault.
Is the NFL racist? No, it is not — absolutely not. However, many who opine about the NFL are. They make bigoted and prejudiced insults and disparage white people for no other reason than being white. And sadly, in a supposed era of racial tolerance, diversity, equity, and inclusion, these anti-white hysterics and insults are tolerated and openly embraced.