See Negro Felon League on Wiktionary
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"text": "The NFL, more commonly known as the Negro Felon League, has no lilly white hands when it comes to racism. It is a biased employer with over 75% of the employees being black. Objecting to Rush Limbaugh buying one of the teams because he is a \"racist\", is so laughable and hypocritical that irony meters are exploding everywhere.",
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"text": "The Negro Felon League has gone to super-QUOTAS and it now includes wimmin!!! Pedodent Biden recently announced white men cannot be hired as SC judges and so this is what you get. We will now have black coaches who can't even read and 90 pound female coaches.",
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