From our own dear long time friend @RevRick.
Please like His Thread to confirm (you can't comment on it anymore - or mine - please don't - Just "Like" @RevRick 's thread):
https://thephins.com/threads/gentlemen-ladies-i-may-not-be-here-for-a-while.91907/
Not because of anyone here, to be sure. But, I was on the Steelers board following the debacle there with Villenueva. After reading the story and the notice posted by their leader, the younger Rooney, I knew I had to express my feelings. So I posted the following:
"The so called "protestors" who fail to stand when the national anthem is played need to go read the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, and then study U.S. History. It has never been the government's place to legislate what people believe. There are those people who will never believe in racial equality in the nation on all sides of the racial divides, usually thinking their particular DNA is the best and the rest of humanity are secondary creatures. There is no legislation which will change such minds.
But, the United States, as constituted, stands for the rights of all people. That is the way the country was formed. If those who are willing to act about racial equality wish to do something about the continuing existence of the problem - then do something. But do NOT besmirch the very emblem of the nation which grants them the right to work to change things for the people of the country. In other nations, they would be rounded up and sent to the Gulag, the Death Camps, the work farms, or be shot, or just disappear in the night for simply being in the same place as those protesting.
It is the protection of that for which OUR flag stands which gives them the right to protest what they feel is discriminatory and unjust. To protest by decrying the legitimate symbol of the very country constituted with that right is asinine, immature, ill-educated and self-serving attention garnering of the first degree.
They ought to be saluting the flag, just as patriots who served, fought, and died to invest the citizens with and to protect those very rights under which they sit, kneel or hide have done for over two hundred years. It is that devotion to the cause, birth, and continued existence of the nation for which that flag stands which grants them the right to betray, besmirch, and denigrate that very symbol about which they protest. Those under-educated privileged children with the bodies of men ought to realize that they are the beneficiaries of all the concepts and ideals for which that flag stands when they besmirch it by kneeling. They deny the integrity of the symbol of the ideals upon which this country was founded, which gives them that right when they so do. It is their right, but it betrays their lack of perspicacity concerning the founding of this nation.
I have decided that as much as I love watching the NFL, as long as players do not stand for the flag of the nation which protects their rights, I will no longer support them with my time or finances. When those overgrown children start acting as if they could be adults, that might change. But for now, this is one veteran and citizen who will not help pay their engorged and luridly immense salaries through the complicated process of the games being played sponsored by products which we are to purchase to enable the league to pay those salaries to play a childhood game with more violence than sportsmanship."
I will keep checking in with this board, because a good number of you I consider friends. I realize that because of what I posted above, that could possibly change with some. But, until things are more in keeping with the fundamental concepts under which we, in this country, all live, as a veteran, and citizen this is where I must stand. I ask nothing of any of you save that you continue to regard me as one of this band.
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NFL Searching For Crisis Communications Assistant After Trump Savages League
The National Football League (NFL) is searching for a crisis communications assistant just one day after President Donald Trump’s criticized the league, according to a job posting.
The NFL is hiring a senior communications strategist for its New York City location, a job posted Monday shows. The position requirements include providing crisis communications counsel to leagues executives. The posting comes as Trump continually blasts the NFL and many of its players who have been protesting the national anthem.
“They will work closely with communications department leadership to create messaging to reflect the league’s wide variety of priorities and expedite organizational decision-making,” the job listing reads.
Ratings for the NFL’s Sunday Night Football dropped after Trump’s initial criticism, making the need for a crisis communication assistant timely. Many NFL players are kneeling or staying in their locker rooms in protest during the national anthem, following Trump’s statement that players who do so should be fired. (RELATED: NFL Sunday Night Ratings Say A Lot About How Americans Feel About Anthem Protests)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/26/n...nications-assistant-after-trump-savages-them/ -
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For me, I'm a bit torn.
Experts have placed the odds of this country encountering a civil war over the next 10-15 years at 35% on the average. The recent Presidents and the powers behind mainstream media have done a fantastic job of methodically creating a narrative that promotes racial tension by pitting blacks against whites and vice versa. I don't know the precise "why" (although there are motives out there), but I do know the "what", and that's that they want us divided. Hence, I understand the need to unify us before it's too late. For that reason alone I can appreciate what the players are trying to accomplish (not that they're preemptively protesting to avoid a future civil war, but their cause is close enough).
However, I agree with Rev's premise, and I very much empathize with all the soldiers and vets who are royally ticked off by this, as I know firsthand and quite well how much the exposure to war can damage an individual and his/her family. My father fought for that flag that you appear to be ho-hum about. In fact I have that folded up triangle with 2 Purple Hearts pinned to it, encased, and sitting on a shelf in my bedroom. It's basically the only thing of value or sentimentality I have to remember him by, as 100% disability, severe PTSD, and its related alcoholism & drug addiction took the rest. With that said, your "sad" comment comes across as insensitive toward those who've put their lives on the line for that flag and for your freedom. The only thing sad here is your level of callousness.Fin-O and CashInFist like this. -
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But that is what people do. Take other people's actions, do not listen to them, and create their own narrative, then dole out justice.Fin D likes this. -
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It has everything to do, if you listen to them.
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If a person voted for Trump then they do not get to talk about respect for the veterans or the flag. He dodged the draft, insulted all POWs and attacked a gold star family. If doing that means a person thinks he's fit to be the Commander in Chief of the military he literally crapped all over, then that person doesn't get to whine about kneeling for the anthem or lecture anyone about respect.
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With that said, exactly what are the players accomplishing by driving much of society to tune them out? Who exactly is the players' target audience BTW?.... bc that's an important tidbit right there. If that audience overlaps any with the mass of individuals they're currently pissing off, then clearly Kaepernick chose a flawed plan. Essentially the majority of the people who are connecting with this protest are the ones who were already on board with it or were in agreement with it to begin with. IDK, I just don't think the answer to racial tension is to heighten tension even further.
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Kaepernick's selfish thoughtless action, followed by the steam it's gained, will probably do more to create a civil war than unify us. He'll end up being the answer to a high school History question 50 years from now- "Who was the professional athlete who helped instigate the 2nd U.S. Civil War?"
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