Taking a Knee...

So one Colin Kaepernick decided to take a knee during the playing of the National Anthem a few years back.  

He stated he was protesting American racism and mistreatment of Black people.  And his chosen way to do that, he said, was to kneel just before football games when the Star Spangled Banner was playing and our American Flag was flying.  And the TV cameras were catching Every. Single. Infuriating. second of it.  

Although that appears to be a strange way to shine light on such a subject, it turns out he started a movement.  And this movement resulted in first a few, and then dozens of multi-millionaire Black pro football players joining him in faulting America for its many sins by taking a knee during the Anthem, while all the world was watching.  Sort of like, let me call out all your warts and wrinkles while you were expecting a sporting event.  And then pro soccer players joined in.  And then Olympic athletes.

And, of course, entitled, narcissistic, dimbulb, vacuous, Hollywood celebrities followed right behind...  

They were protesting America for having mistreated them.  I guess.  Poor mistreated $Millionaire athletes.

I've been wondering when my "white privilege" will mistreat me with some of those $Millions...   

First the NFL stated that kneeling when the Anthem played was not acceptable.  After all, I might add, it had penalized Christian star athlete and activist Tim Tebow a few years back when he kneeled to thank God in prayer after a particularly good play.  And it penalized the Dallas Cowboys for attempting to wear a decal on their cleats honoring five dead Dallas cops.  It's a sport, folks!  So using the Anthem, or any other aspect of pro football to promote your particular political persuasion was not okay with the NFL.  

Until it is...  

Now it seems that all Kaepernick needed to get his kneeling approved by the NFL was to have a few thousand Black people, and some social justice warrior Whites, burn down some buildings and throw some bricks and loot some stores and kill some cops and take over the downtown of a major American city and threaten to kill some folks and...voila!, kneeling now A-Okay!  

Truly, Kaepernick had found a thread to pull and the NFL's sweater started to unravel.  Quickly.

Pro football viewership began to drop immediately.  Some reports showed a 15% drop.  Others had it even worse.  Americans do not like to see their Flag insulted (DUH!), and will not support efforts to diss our National Anthem.  And that's true especially when done by rich, self-important, entitled athletes who've never paid a price for their freedoms.

Of course, anti-Americans are just fine with anti-American activities.  We see proof of that every day.  And quite often lately, it seems, from our very own House of Representatives.

So I have a solution:  Simply stop playing the National Anthem before professional sporting events.  No Anthem, no potential kneeling.  No kneeling, no problem.  Got it?  If the athletes want to protest something or other, I suggest they do so in the locker room just before they come out to play.  Or, perhaps do so outside their various stadia in the parking lot.  Or, at a church or synagogue or mosque nearby.  Or, maybe in CNN's or MSNBC's TV studios (it would save them the cost of having to send a remote broadcasting team to record the toxic insults to America).  Anywhere but during the playing of the Anthem while our Flag proudly waves. 

Are these people aware that Americans fought and died for the Country that the Flag and Anthem represents?  And if they are, do they give a damn? 

If it were a little kid with a knife, we'd remove the knife from the kid's hands before he could hurt himself.  And with professional football players, many of whom are proving to be dumber than a bag of rocks, it seems all we have to do is just remove the TV cameras and the live TV audience and they'll stop acting up.  These athletes are apparently so desperate to show how upset they are with America's "institutional" and "systemic" racism, racism that enabled them to get free educations and earn $Millions and drive exotic cars and attract trophy wives and live in yuuuuuge mansions, they have to do so in front of God and everybody.  

Let's just remove their means of doing so.  

They surely wouldn't complain, right?  Or if they did, they'd only be complaining about their lack of access to America on live TV while they're doing it.  And that's the entire story: 

Showing America their ass

in the most public of ways.

And so I, one ordinary American, choose to avoid such public displays of stupidity.  I'll focus instead on positive, uplifting, patriotic endeavors, designed to show how proud I am to be an American.  Like, taking my guns out to the range to practice strategic bullet placement, a necessary skill for when those Antifa revolutionaries decide to bring their little "protests" to those of us who just want to be left alone.  

And I'll be doing that at the exact same moment the NFL is hosting their little pity parties...