The players can deny the mathematics that mandate that the most violent and criminal demographic in our society will always suffer the most justifiable, unjustifiable and accidental police shootings but they will be forced to recognize the laws of economics that will mandate lower ratings and attendance will eventually result in declining revenues for the teams and thus lower salaries for the players. You have to respect them putting their money where their mouth is by willingly causing all of the above in standing up for their beliefs. If I thought ours was a racist society that conducts genocide on people of color and hunts any group down, I'd be right there with them. I see a still imperfect country but still the best country for every race that has ever existed on the face of the earth and one that strives constantly to make itself better and people who have profited so handsomely because this country is not what they claim makes me want to invest my time and money elsewhere.