NFLSuper Bowl Love

The NFL, including last week's Super Bowl, preached a message of love. I'm pro-love, but I don't know that its working. "Choose Love", "Fight Racism", etc. The slogans and ads are fine, but do they accomplish what they're going for? Or cynically, do they do it to make themselves look good? There was an ad with Snoop and Tom Brady. Not necessarily my favorite people, but they're ok. I usually don't like those kind of preachy messages, but actually I liked they're ad.

Again, do they do any good? Lets divide the world into racists, non-racists, and those somewhere in between. First, for someone that is truly a racist, I'm not sure those slogans really make any difference in their thinking. By the way, I think that group is by far the smallest of the three. I know there are neo-Nazis out there and police that have shot people wrongly, but I doubt its a big percentage out of the three hundred million of us. 

Moving on the the non-racists, I think this is by far the largest group. They don't need any slogans. It maybe gives them the chance to feel good about themselves, but that's it.

Those in the middle. Casey Stengel was a famous baseball manager. He once said (paraphrasing) that the secret to being a good manager is keeping the people that hate you away from the undecideds. Social media people that like to get attention by being hateful use things like "Black Lives Matter" to stir things up. "Black lives matter? What about white lives? Black history month? Where do they get off with their own month?" The non-racists aren't moved by that, but some of the undecides could be. NFL and others, even if slogans are meant to be positive, they aren't necessarily helping and may be giving ammunition to the other side.

Here is a final thought regarding the Super Bowl. You have all the right slogans and ads, yet the theme of the halftime show seemed to be one person rapping about how much he hates another person. So where do we land on this, NFL? I assume the NFL has some input into every aspect of the day, including halftime. I'm confused.