Summary: For a time, the vast majority of Black athletes and entertainers heeded White America's not so subtle warning. You can get rich singing and dancing and running and jumping in America, but if you want to enjoy the beautiful house, the big bucks, the fancy cars the lucrative endorsements and live the life of the rich and famous, you have to do it with your mouth shut. To vocalize any support for racial justice or Black pride will not be tolerated by White America. Blacks in positions of influence must speak through a self imposed filter. They can be seen, but not heard. And still, Colin Kaepernick broke the rules most "accepted Blacks" followed. And yes, he too is paying the price.
