The NFL's Kneel-a-Palooza Isn't What They Think It Is and They Don't Even Know It - Granite Grok

The NFL’s Kneel-a-Palooza Isn’t What They Think It Is and They Don’t Even Know It

nfl-kneeling-0924-large-169The NFL’s Kneel-a-palooza is beginning to grate on my nerves. Team owners and players think they are doing something meaningful, but they’ve been shepherded into advocating a false-narrative that feeds the progressive mission to kneecap the culture, and most of them don’t even know it.

Much like the hands-up-don’t-shoot meme, (which was a complete fabrication driven into the collective conscious by a progressive political party and its media homonculi), taking a knee in protest (to what exactly?) is based on exaggerations and misdirection.

First, let’s pretend we know what this even all about.

Colin Kaepernick the groundbreaking NFL activist who remains a Quarterback without a bench to sit on for getting political on the job says,

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

He is talking about police violence. And this all came about in the wake of a number high-profile incidents short-stroked by the press to create political capital to impose national anti-gun laws that would only make matters worse.

Is there police violence against African Americans. I’m sure there is. There’s police violence against everyone because if we’re honest when you train and arm a bunch of folks and give them the power to “police” the public, the use of force is inevitable.

You should stop blaming the police and start blaming Democrats. Registered Democrats keep elected Democrats in power. Elected Democrats are the source of the inner-city misery and helplessness that leads to crime and therefore punishment. A relationship that has and will end badly–and if you’re the media you only report the crap out of it when it involves a white cop and a black body because that sells the narrative.

Democrats and the media have very little interest in the black-on-black crime in inner cities (maybe if a cop is involved) because the left wing media protects the Democrats and the Democrats have run the cities and therefore the inner cities for decades.

Democrats have very little interest in black cops violence against whites.

In fact they no interest in anything that doesn’t advance their narrative.

So if you are serious about the idea of justice, ending violence, and black lives, which I think Kaepernick thinks he is, the cops are not the black communities biggest problem. Black lives are currently the greatest threat to black lives and the closer you get to a Democrat-run city the greater that risk becomes. The problem isn’t police, or white people, or poverty, or even black people; it’s Democrats.

Their policies have been trapping minorities in crumbling inner cities for decades. And these are the ideological descendants the Klan. Yet, somehow we can’t make that obvious connection. No, Donald Trump or even some white registered Republican like me is to blame for trapping blacks in bad schools and crime-riddled neighborhoods, not Democrats.

But it’s not me. I don’t vote Democrat. And I never took a knee during the National Anthem, even when that joke Barack Obama was the President. And that’s important because at the end of the day none of this ever has anything to do with what you think.

Over at the New Yorker where being progressive (that means Democrat) isn’t just a way of life they explain it for us.

News outlets quickly interpreted the Wembley scene, both the locking of arms and the kneeling, as a collaborative gesture of powerful men “united” against Trump. The language had been given to them by the N.F.L. itself: the official Jets Twitter account posted a photo of the team arranged in a circular formation prior to the start of their afternoon game, with the word “Unity” beneath it. The statements put out by the teams in the last twenty-four hours are full of words like “peace,” “together,” and “social change.”  …

“The kneel will now become a sign of opposition to Trump,” the journalist David Corn tweeted after photos of the Wembley game began to circulate. 

Mr. Trump has been in office for 8 eight months but its all his fault.

And they paint it all with words like unity, peace, together, and social change, but these words don’t mean what you think they mean. Unity means conformity (by force as necessary). And ask Antifa about peace because peace means ending all resistance to their worldview. Only then will everyone come together under their banner. A banner where being a “wrongfully imprisoned” gay black woman won’t protect you if you aren’t thinking the way they think.

You get on board or discover that social change means shut the hell up, or they protest in front of your house, your job, whatever it takes to shut you down and send a message to everyone else. With the media there to make sure everyone gets the message.

And now it’s infected football. But there’s no constitutional protection for being a political activist on the job. And these players are on the job.

Can you do that at your job? Kimberly Morin asked that very question this week on Girard at Large, and the answer is no. If you don’t believe me ask a lawyer.

No other employer would put up with it and America agrees with me.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say NFL players should stand and be respectful during the playing of the national anthem, according to a survey released on Monday.

A survey by Remington Research Group found that 64 percent of voters agree with President Trump and want players to stand for the anthem. The survey also found that 80 percent of voters want less politics in sports, while 51 percent say they are watching less football than in previous years.

The ‘Office’ is no place for your political activism unless your business is politics. But even then, there are limits. No campaign or Politically active group would ever tolerate someone from their staff promoting a protest that runs contrary to their mission. That dope would out on their ass is half-a-heartbeat. No right to free speech there. Not entitled to much of anything but a rhetorical kick in the pants on the way out the door.

Outside the office is another matter but even then, people employed in occupations where their public actions could reflect negatively on their employer and their brand could be terminated for behavior that shines an unfavorable light on that organization.

Feel free to take it the NLRB; you’ll discover there’s no first amendment right to a job while you’re calling Trump a Nazi unless you work for Democrats or happen to be an embedded bureaucrat in the Deep State which is, I admit, redundant.

Coaches and owners need to listen to America as they eye the declining ratings. And while we’re at it, you need to understand that the Democrat and media leadership couldn’t care less about blacks if their lives won’t advance their agenda, and they certainly don’t care about any that don’t cast votes for Democrats.

They don’t much care about the NFL or its ratings either. In fact, they might be out to end that business model altogether. A business that makes millionaires out of talented Black Americans every year.

So stop being tools for the socialist/Democrat party narrative with your suicidal, self-destructive line-toeing.  Institute a strict no politics at work policy NFL and call it a day.

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