On Taking The Knee

            Aka
In Deference To Truth

In regards to all this kneeling going on of mostly black-American football players during the playing of the National Anthem*:

These protestors of racial matters in this country - many of those matters a beat-up; some of them legitimate - seem not to understand that it is disrespectful not only of the flag and country - their flag and country; but especially of all those veterans who bled and died for, and served, and serve, this country over the years - this country that has given such citizens the right to demonstrate, in an appropriate way and setting,  Sports events are not the appropriate venue for this sort of demonstration.  Politics is best left out of such an apolitical scene.  

Play ball.  Or don’t.  Your choice.

And speaking of playing:

They also don’t seem to understand that they are ‘playing’ right into the hands of people who are attempting to take down this country, and replace it with a totalitarian state - called, and by them, their New World Order - that would take away everybody’s rights to do anything not allowed by Big Brother.  And that would include their own right to protest, even in an appropriate setting.

Very shortsighted of them.

That is to say, of those among them who don’t actually want that dystopian outcome.  Who prefer rather to keep the world free from statist oppression.  But that disgusting state of affairs is what their gesture amounts to.  In

the end.    

And speaking of black Americans; overheard in the 'hood:

‘Tha’s my daddy.’

‘Oh yeah?’

‘Yeah.  He’s cool.’

‘Oh yeah?’

‘Yeah…I never seen your daddy aroun’.’

‘I don’ have a daddy.’

‘You what?  Of course you do.  Ever’body has a ‘daddy’.  Tha’s how it’s done.’    

‘Well, all I know is, my mammy said once, when I aksed her about it, she said, “Chile, I don’ rightly knows who your daddy was."  An’ then she laughed.  Same with my other brothers an’ sisters.’

‘How do you mean, “the same” with them?’

‘Jus’ what I says.  She don’ know who their daddy was neither.’

‘You gotta lotta brothers an’ sisters.  How many you got?’

’Twelve of us.  Countin’ me.’

‘Twelve!  Tha's a lot.’

‘Yeah.  My mammy once said, “Cheaper by the dozen.”  An’ then she laughed.’

But it is no laughing matter.  It is a tragedy, of major proportions.  Women on welfare having babies on the taxpayers’ dime.  Not just a society supporting families that are down on their luck temporarily.  But enticing females - I hesitate to call these mothers ‘women,’ because that term connotes a certain degree of maturity - females having babies, not just for the hell of it.  But for the money.  

I will say, in deference to truth, that I can’t fully say that ‘No one owes you a living’ to some young black dude stealing bikes or such, because of the stupidity of the American people in letting this sort of situation develop to the extent that it has.  The stupid Americans sowed the wind, and now they are reaping the whirlwind from their shortsighted behavior, in creating a whole class of incarnate souls dependent on the state for their wherewithal - their ‘welfare’.  So no; in a way, ‘society’ does owe them a living.  

Time to clean up our act.  In this regard.  As in others.

Of anything that does not speak to higher consciousness coming into play, in the human comedy/tragedy.

Which it needs to, now, anyway.  Because

it's time.


P.S. Say what?  It was disrespectful??  Ohh.  That sort of disrespect is not allowed.  Oh; I see.
     I think.
     In any event, I would suggest that, in the future, you don't show disrespect to the people who paid you to play ball.  And who paid for that 'treatment' only.
     It's called, Don't bite the hand that feeds you.  Or suffer the consequences.    

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* I fully understand that it has also become a ’solidarity’ thing, for the team.  But it is still a misplaced gesture; as I will get into here, in this commentary on the matter, by one American, 'entitled' to have his say, too.