TAKE A KNEE..TAKE A KNEE...

Oh, I know.

In the OLD days, people MARCHED. Man, that's OLD school.

Now? Take a Knee.

Let's say you're a rich football player. Your white adoptive parents gave you everything America has to offer. That doesn't mean America is a good place to live. Show the world that America is a disgraceful place to live. Take a knee.

America is disgraceful not because it ignores climate change. Not because it has a terrible health care system. Not for any reason except one. The National Anthem was written by a guy who, on revisionist websites, never went to court and helped slaves to be free (which he did), but actually wrote a song that MIGHT include a line about not being too happy with some slaves that joined the British in trying to kill Americans.

A cover story in TIME, a very HEROIC cover story, pointed out why our pal Colin took a knee. The magazine referenced the National Anthem above everything else. Why play that awful song at the start of something as important as a football game? Priorities, people!

If you don't remember TIME had a photo of the courageous Colin Kaepernick (his very name has that sound of Black pride, just like Malcolm X). Next to it, these words: "THE PERILOUS FIGHT. National anthem protests led by Colin Kaperneck are fueling a debate about privilege, pride and patriotism."

Read that over again. Nothing about too many white cops being nasty to blacks. It was about the national anthem. The man was taking a knee the moment he heard the national anthem. A song. That he was told was racist.

Happily, the protest blossomed into a tremendous fiasco of anger, resentment, accusations, and the rest of what is almost as entertaining as watching a bunch of millionaires in long Spanx give each other brain damage.

The ultimate lesson in all of this: you can get a lot accomplished just by taking a knee like a feeble old lady in a nursing home with bladder issues.

At the moment, earthquakes are ravaging Mexico. Some say we should care about that. At the moment, North Korea is threatening to destroy America. This might include the NFL. We should look into that. And since America is supposed to do what the United Nations, Red China and Russia never do...it's a shame they are behind on rebuilding Puerto Rico. It was America's fault that a hurricane hit it.

Of course it was. America IS a disgraceful place. Just ask Colin.

Hopefully, by the next stadium tour, Paul McCartney will have finished up his Ode to Colin:

"WHEN I FIND MYSELF IN TIMES OF TROUBLE,

FATHER COLIN COMES TO ME.

WHISPERING WORDS OF WISDOM:

TAKE A KNEE. TAKE A KNEE.

AND IN MY HOUR OF DARKNESS

HE IS SQUATTING THERE IN FRONT OF ME

WHISPERING WORDS OF WISDOM:

TAKE A KNEE. TAKE A KNEE.

(Note, the line "hour of darkness" refers to a lack of light.)

Now, about that hurricane in PUERTO RICO. TIME is about to release a new issue with Colin on the cover. So, Puerto Rico, this should make you all breathe a sigh of relief.