Who can wait? It's so much fun to see millionaires in Spanx do their best to end up with life-threatening concussions. What? Some ex-player killed himself? Went berserk? Is drooling more than his expensive lawn sprinkler? Oh well...that's because football's a tough game, folks.
But Colin Winkydink is sensitive. So are the others who, faint of heart, faint of wrist, and sullen as can be, drop to one knee when the National Anthem is played.
We all know how this started. Ignorant loudmouths, including a N.Y. Daily News special "black only news' columnist, began to scream about Francis Scott Key: "HE A RACIST." (You can't use proper grammar, that's too white.)
Key, a lawyer who defended many slaves in his time, was not the "stone cold racist" he was made out to be by the revisionist history columnists. It was said that the "Star Spangled Banner" is RACIST. Huh? Let's look over the lyrics that most people can't even sing even though the song has been played MILLIONS of times. Hmmmm, nothing RACIST in this song. What ARE you talking about?
Uh, uh, the POEM be racist. He a racist in the poem. The poem was set to music (set to a British drinking song), and the racist lines were removed because the song was too long.
If you check the original poem that Key wrote, no, there's nothing in there that is overtly racist at all. The man was a patriot. There were a few lines in there where he gloated over the patriots being victorious over traitors, and yes, a few slaves sided with the British thinking (ha ha) that the British don't talk about "the white man's burden." But racist???
When the NFL players began taking a knee and looking ridiculous because the National Anthem Is Not Racist, it all changed:
"Police brutality! That's why we're taking a knee! POLICE BRUTALITY! Oh, and if you want to include all the misery of Blacks in America for 200 years, and how there's never been a Black President, and never been Blacks like Oprah making millions, or Black entertainers from Fats Waller to Johnny Mathis to Nat "King" Cole to Chubby Checker and Fats Domino to Aretha Franklin to Kanye and Beyonce and Jay-Z doing so well, or Black police chiefs etc. etc....go ahead.
In talking about taking a knee, some Texas politician with an eye on higher office, Beto O'Rourke, is on YouTube explaining how taking a knee is a good thing because Blacks have never been treated fairly. Unlike, say, the Native Americans. Or Mexicans, Beto. You know, the ones who didn't want Texas to steal their land?
Ah yes, the Blacks in the South. The troubles they've seen. And who helped them? Nobody. Absolutely NOBODY. No white politicians. No protest singers named Bob Dylan or Joan Baez or Pete Paul and Mary. And certainly, no Jews.
What? Who are those two JEWS?
They are two JEWS who got killed for going down South and helping Black people to register to vote.
They didn't stay home and take a knee...by simply writing a letter to the New York Times. They didn't take a knee by thinking, "No, we'll stay here and protest how Jews in our own neighborhood get beat up for wearing a yarmulke." No. They weren't thinking of their own kind and only their own kind. They went down South, and they died there.
The NFL players who take a knee, aren't taking it for Jews. They aren't taking it for Gays. They aren't taking it to protest the white woman killed by the Somali-born trigger-happy cop in Minnesota.
They aren't taking it for women abused by men, especially NFL players. They aren't taking a knee because they have a wider view of the world and see Blacks suffering in Afria, and how Nigerian women are being raped and killed by other Nigerians who call themselves Boko Haram. They aren't taking a knee to call attention to the climate change that stupid redneck NFL-loving beer drinking football loving couch potatoes ignore.
They aren't taking a knee to protest how so many players end up with arthritic knees, or how often the only justice for somebody giving another player a concussion is a five yard penalty.
As Phil Ochs used to say, people tend to only care "if it affects them personally." So these NFL players have their cause. It doesn't even extend to trying to get more tax money to go to inner city schools, or to get guns off the street, or the fact that innocent black people are being killed by random gunshots hitting them on the street or even through the window in their own homes.
No. And these big strong guys want pity and "feel sorry for me" moaning as they sadly take a knee and hang their heads. That's not exactly what two Olympic athletes did in 1968 when they stood tall and raised their fists. Of course, this was at a time when integration was still an issue, and when TV stations were complaining if Raquel Welch and Jim Brown were on the same stage together, or if Bill Cosby and Robert Culp were co-starring on a TV spy show. Progress? Ignore it.
Don't remember the whites who lost their lives because they cared about black people and their civil rights. Don't care about the Native Americans who have a team of "Redskins" named after them because Native Americans are bloody savages. Don't care about being able to play your game without a sudden torrential downpour of insane weather, or a blizzard, or record-breaking heat.
Just moan and bitch and take a knee. And anyone who thinks this is ridiculous, and not going to change anything? "He be racist."
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