04-11-2018, 12:45 AM
I have more respect for players willing to take a stand, even if I disagree with them than I do for those who will just tow the company line and wouldn't speak up for what's right if it means losing a pay check. They're given an extremely unique opportunity that very few ordinary citizens ever get and that is to speak up to a much broader audience and make a real difference in the world in which we live.
I remember people such as Mohammed Ali taking a stand against war and sending young men off to die for an unjust war. He suffered, went to prison and had his title stripped away and somehow football players standing up against injustice is somehow wrong?
Players taking a stand against police killing unarmed citizens is in no way unpatriotic unless your patriotism is somehow linked to killing your fellow citizens.
I don't get all choked up over flags and songs. I get all choked up when I know my countrymen and women are being killed for no good reason. I get all choked up when I know that the land of the free has the highest incarceration rate in the world and I do get all choked up when I see young men getting paid millions of dollars willing to risk losing it all to make sure our nation becomes a better place . That's what I get all choked up about and before you go waving flags at me and my kind my father, both my brothers, a sister and myself all have honorable discharges from the United States armed forces. We served our country. I'm going to the VA this week for treatment. I respect people who put their own lives and earnings on the line, but have very little respect for people who wrap themselves in the flag and pretend that they speak for me . They don't .
And just for the record the entertainment industry in has long been involved in service to this nation. The football industry is a part of the entertainment industry.
I remember people such as Mohammed Ali taking a stand against war and sending young men off to die for an unjust war. He suffered, went to prison and had his title stripped away and somehow football players standing up against injustice is somehow wrong?
Players taking a stand against police killing unarmed citizens is in no way unpatriotic unless your patriotism is somehow linked to killing your fellow citizens.
I don't get all choked up over flags and songs. I get all choked up when I know my countrymen and women are being killed for no good reason. I get all choked up when I know that the land of the free has the highest incarceration rate in the world and I do get all choked up when I see young men getting paid millions of dollars willing to risk losing it all to make sure our nation becomes a better place . That's what I get all choked up about and before you go waving flags at me and my kind my father, both my brothers, a sister and myself all have honorable discharges from the United States armed forces. We served our country. I'm going to the VA this week for treatment. I respect people who put their own lives and earnings on the line, but have very little respect for people who wrap themselves in the flag and pretend that they speak for me . They don't .
And just for the record the entertainment industry in has long been involved in service to this nation. The football industry is a part of the entertainment industry.
