Tyreek Hill Shouldn't Be Talking About White Privilege With His Abusive Past

Travis Kelce nudged, even pushed head coach Andy Reid in the second quarter of the Super Bowl after Reid took Kelce out of the game on a play in which the Chiefs fumbled the ball in the red zone.

Former Chief Tyreek Hill implied that fans and media downplayed the incident because Kelce is white. Hill responded to Eagles receiver A.J. Brown saying he would've been kicked out of the NFL had he shoved his coach. 

Hill suggests white players are privileged and thus are absolved of bad behavior. That's a curious argument to make.  No player in the NFL has gotten away with more bad behavior than Tyreek Hill, who is obviously not white.

Let's recap:

Hill pleaded guilty to strangling his pregnant girlfriend in 2015 while in college. He was drafted anyway.

In 2019, police investigated Hill for an incident in which his three-year-old son sustained a broken arm. TMZ then obtained an alleged audio recording of Hill and his then-fiancee Crystal Espinal arguing about the kid's injury, during which Espinal tells Hill their son is scared of him.

Hill responded, "You should be afraid of me too, bitch."

Here's the full recording:

Neither the Chiefs nor the NFL suspended Hill for the incident. He didn't miss a game for his behavior. 

To put it briefly, Tyreek Hill is not the one who should be alleging white privilege in the NFL. If the NFL were out to get black men, the league would have made an example out of him years ago.

It never has. Hill has skirted responsibility for most of his career.

Most players in the NFL do, regardless of their race.

Other than Ray Rice, whose domestic abuse incident morphed into a cultural reckoning, the NFL has given black players second, third, and fourth opportunities.

May we point you to Michael Vick, Kareem Hunt, Ray Lewis, Ezekiel Elliott, and Adrian Peterson?

Current players, former players, and members of the media continue to try and manufacture proof that the NFL is racist against black players. 

Their references rarely hold weight.

The NFL is one of the last true meritocracies. Black and white players are treated equally. Perhaps that's what bothers Tyreek Hill, A.J. Brown, and Ryan Clark so much?