JB, I think it's wrong to discriminate against people because of their skin color or their gender, and that's exactly what this does.

JB, it looks like that was part of Business Connect, a partnership between the NFL and Greater KC Sports Commission to link diverse Kansas City suppliers to contracting opportunities related to the 2023 NFL Draft. Twenty KC area restaurants were chosen, 7 offering BBQ. I suppose there were hundreds of wealthy white men excluded, and if there's one thing this country can't tolerate, it's a less-than-tilted playing field for the country club crowd. UNFAIR!

First it's a big yawn from you that the Draft is being held in Green Bay, and now you're outraged. What gives? Why do you hate military vets and women?

I'm with you, Johnblood, this reverse discrimination is sickening.
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When the NFL was founded in the 1920s, it was in factory cities in which average Americans of all colors worked for paltry pay in pathetic conditions -- dirty, deafening, dangerous and debilitating jobs -- ten hours a day, six days a week, with no vacations and no health insurance.
When the children of these Americans finally climbed into the middle class in the 1950s, they were still working really hard, although now they could eke out a house, a car, and a measure of economic dignity.
However, this golden era of a thriving middle class was to be fleeting, lasting only about three decades or so, until the American worker was sold out by big government and big business to foreign labor exploited overseas or smuggled into the underground economy domestically.
Nowadays, almost all Americans of all colors are again reduced to severe stress to make ends meet with two or more part-time jobs required in a gig economy with no vacation and no health insurance.
Once again, the vast majority of Americans of all colors are returned to the lowliness of being basically slaves on the corporate plantations of big business in cahoots with big government.
(On a related note, is it noticed that all of the choices in our lives are being taken away except for those involving sex and drugs -- distractions of decadence?)
We are living in a second Gilded Age in which a very few elitists own almost everything in America and almost everyone else owns practically nothing. (Even our family homes, after thirty years of paying off the mortgage, are ready to be seized again by banks in reverse mortgages).
The crippling effects to the American worker of all colors are epidemics of addiction and diabetes II and divorce and desolation.
To cover their mismanagement and even betrayal of average Americans of all colors, cynical elitists such as senators and CEOs are trying to contrive racial division to distract from real reform.
There is indeed a deepening swamp in D.C. of slimy dealings in campaign contributions and lobbying and cronyism -- with political tyrants and business titans moving effortlessly back-and-forth from legislative chambers to executive boardrooms.
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Another false argument is between libertarian capitalism versus collective socialism, both of which are impersonal and materialistic systems that result in the average worker being oppressed and dispossessed, scrambling for crumbs.
What we need is a return to what I call Localism (also known by the rather awkward term of distributism from an English movement of the early 1900s), which is a return to an emphasis on small government and small business which are protected and promoted by fair laws, including the tax code.
For an independent and prosperous and happy America, we need to encourage family farms, family shops, and other family entrepreneurial enterprises.
Even big businesses can give their employees a piece of the corporation and a voice in the boardroom (away from big unions of corruption and coercion).
We need good jobs for strong families and strong families for good jobs.
When so many millions of Americans are suffering from the struggle to make a living unto literally dying -- from the vacant downtowns and tumbledown trailer parks of rural America to the vicious slums and tenements of urban America (and many places in between) -- it's not the ordinary citizens who are failing the country, but the country that is failing them.
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So it is that NFL executives such as Roger Goodell (what's his salary these days, anyway?) along with team owners do nothing of substance to help average Americans of any color.
It's all about virtue signaling and token gestures.
I doubt the NFL draft in Green Bay will help most of the people in the state of Wisconsin, but rather almost exclusively elitists who pretend to care about the poor but really seek to profit off of them.
Now, if the NFL wants to focus on providing opportunities for small businesses owned by people of all colors, then that could be something positive.
If the NFL wants to have its lucrative line of NFL merchandise made in various depressed locations of America by American workers making good wages in good working conditions -- using its immense profits to offset costs instead of funneling it to worthless woke organizations -- then that could be something positive.
To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton (author of continuously relevant books such as, "The Outline of Sanity"), I'm all for capitalism, if only average Americans of all colors actually had real opportunities to own capital.