Yesterday President Trump made a speech and referred to the NFL players who have decided to take a knee in protest for the oppressed in this country. In his comment he said the NFL should respond to the protesters by saying "Get that Son of a bitch off the field!" Well to that I say, SPOT ON, President Trump!
I am amazed that these reporters and commentators are more upset with President Trump saying son of a bitch than they are about the NFL football players taking a knee during the National Anthem. Funny they see them taking a knee as their right to free speech but yet our President, who spoke what many of us have been thinking for over a year now, doesn't have that right to free speech and is expected to act differently because he lives in the White House. Sorry folks but here is a reality check, President Trump was elected because he spoke his mind like every other American and not like some politician who only shows you what they need to in order to get elected.
I can imagine how these news reporters would be up in arms if they had a live mic in one of these behind the door meetings held by our Congressmen and women. The words you would hear and the nasty comments that would be made would be devastating to your sensitive souls.
After our President spoke his mind concerning these over paid cry babies a statement was released by Roger Goodell in which he says, and I quote, "The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture. There is no better example then the amazing response from our clubs and players to the terrible disasters we've experienced over the last month. Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force our good clubs and players represent in our communities."
To those of you who read my blog I am sure you understand I cannot let this go unaddressed. Roger Goodell and the NFL players who chose to stand or hold a fist in the air are a bunch of disrespectful morons to the men and women who serve this country, to the first responders and police who put their lives on the line everyday, to every man and woman who shed their blood in order to protect and serve this amazing country so these ungrateful cry babies can play football and make millions of dollars.
I will give you there are a lot of professional athletes, across this country, who give to their communities and pitch in to help with one charity or another. The NFL doesn't have that market cornered but you also don't see those other ball clubs taking a knee or showing disrespect to our nations flag and all those who fought to keep our freedoms.
These million dollar babies want to cry about oppression when they are now walking around with a silver spoon in their mouths. Yes, I am sure some of them came up from some hard times and football or some other sport helped them make their way up the ladder and improved their lives in one way or another. So instead of these NFL players getting out there and saluting the very flag that stands for them to have that opportunity they choose to insult it and those who fought for them to do what they have always dreamed of. They are living the American Dream of making a better life for themselves and their family but instead of teaching our children it is something we should be proud of they chose to not stand and act the fool trying to teach our youth how wrong people in this country are because we have people who are oppressed and of course they are only people of color.
Well here is a news flash for you NFL superstars, take a look around and notice how many people of color are doing well for themselves in this country. Being underprivileged doesn't just happen to people because of the color of their skin. It has nothing to do with those who were slaves back when this country began. We fought a war to solve that very same problem and guess what the North won and the slaves were freed yet there are still those with that mentality to blame the white people with their inability or drive to pull themselves out of poverty. Funny thing, they were never slaves, they just listened to stories growing up and harvested the anger. Many of those slaves fought on the lines on both sides North and South, they fought for their freedoms, they fought for their families, and they fought for the future of this great nation.
I raised three children and put them through college as a single mother living for most of their lives under the poverty level but I refused to let that bring me down or allow it to pull my children down. They knew we didn't have much but I always made sure they had everything they needed even if I had to do without. They knew how important it was for them to do better for themselves then I ever didn't and how proud I was with every advancement they made in their lives. I taught my children no matter where you come from there is no p lace you cannot go because in America you can do anything you set your mind to as long as you work hard and push to keep doing better. Many times I held three and four jobs but not once did I complain this country was keeping me down or hold a grudge against anyone for what I didn't have.
Goodell you and your players and clubs want to make a difference then get out there on the streets the way it used to be. Walk among the young people and get some positive community action going. You and your players and clubs aren't the only ones who responded to the disasters that happened in this country over the past month. This entire country set their differences aside and stepped up to the plate, not the goal post, and pitched in however they could, where ever they could and asked for nothing in return. So please do not pat yourself on the back for doing what the rest of the country was doing.
When your players take a knee I am offended because I have lost family to war, had uncles held prisoner of war, lost friends in Vietnam, and have had and still have many friends who served or are serving in the United States Armed forces and I am proud of each and everyone of them. I am offended because it is a slap in the face to our veterans and disabled veterans who fought so your players can take a knee in protest. You are all claiming you have the right to free speech but this is their job. If they want to stand on a soap box then take out an ad but do not turn the game into a political arena.
As for President Trump's comment I stand and applaud him because he is right. If you do not stand for this country and all those who fought for it then leave. You see the problem is you have all been listening to the rhetoric of the Obama administration for so long you actually started to believe his propaganda in which he cried injustice for blacks in America. Where were the cries for the children of color who were shot down innocently in the streets because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. I remember a story in the middle of all this chaos of his administration of a young nine year old black girl in her room doing her homework when shots rang out just outside of her home. That poor child, who was minding her own business, doing her homework in the safety of her home, under the watch of her mother, was killed by a stray bullet. Where was the outcry for this child. There wasn't any. No one went out to protest for her lost life but a mother was left to mourn. There are many other stories like that so please if you want to take a knee take in the name of the innocent not the thugs.
I have said this many times, I am the mother of a police officer and a sister to another, I pray every day my son or brother doesn't have to pull his gun on anyone. I pray every day someone doesn't pull a gun on them. I pray every time the phone rings late at night that its not bad news. I fear a uniformed police officer coming to my door with news I don't want to hear. When I hear chanting in the streets for police officers to be killed I hold my breath and pray to God someone finally opens their eyes and helps them to realize we can all work together for a better tomorrow and it doesn't have to be one side against the other, one color against the other. We are in the year 2017 yet I feel we have stepped back in time to the 1960's and are once again fighting a war for civil rights that has already been won by some of the best.
Is everything perfect in this country, hell no! We have politicians who could unite us, fighting to divide us. That is something we all need to look at and when we do, remember the words of Lincoln when he said in a speech to some students at a school in Illinois:
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
So let the politicians of this country have the last laugh and destroy what so many have fought for. Let them destroy this country from within because by allowing this to go on, by allowing the criminals to be the oppressed, the ones being hurt by the police, by allowing our children to have to grow up in fear of playing outside because of the thugs walking the streets, our senior citizens and disabled practically kept as prisoners in their homes because of fear of being attacked and unable to protect themselves, by allowing the inmates to run the asylum so to speak we are giving in and signing our country over to ruin. It's time folks to pick a side and stand united, not be offended by the words spoken by our President but be focused on improving the situation in this country and standing behind our President, military, veterans, first responders and police. It's time to shed our soft shell and grow a hard shell and fight back to bring this country back to where it was and more.
To Goodell and the NFL players who feel they need to take a knee I say to you start standing up for what is right and fight for what this country stands for, justice, freedom, values, integrity, and morals, the way it used to be. Take all that energy you have in putting down this country and those who fight to keep us safe and put it into helping the children of this great nation see what an amazing life they can have and encourage them to do better and fix what is broken in their communities by being stronger and better than the generation before them.
May God Bless America and may we all start to realize it's time to stand together for a better tomorrow.
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