Wall Street Begins to Sour on the NFL Over National Anthem Protests
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Version 0 of 1. Wall Street has started to sour on the National Football League in response to players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem that are intended to protest inequality in the U.S. and police brutality. Several veterans of the financial markets, a large employer of former U.S. military service members, have started to criticize the league. "I am going to be flat-out honest - I think the players should be standing up for the anthem. They can lock arms all right, but they shouldn't be bringing politics into the sport like this," Chris McCormick, a sales trader at a derivatives broker in New York, told the New York Post. The NFL stands to feel the hurt as many on Wall Street are either regulars in the stadium's luxury suites, or acquire large amounts of season tickets. "Of course we should respect the American flag," John O'Shea, chairman of Global Alliance Securities, who has season tickets to the Giants, told the Post. But, O'Shea did not dispute that the players have a constitutional right to protest. "Dragging the national anthem into an anti-President Trump message is very disrespectful to our military veterans," MorganFranklin financial expert Hughey Newsome told the Post. "The protests are doing a humongous disservice to those who have died in defense of this land, and in defense of everything we stand for." Newsome is a member of the conservative coalition Project 21 black leadership network, and has argued that there will be economic consequences facing the NFL if these kneeling protests continue. More of What's Trending on TheStreet: |