If any of you who kneeled during the National anthem have done nothing with your wealth to help people you believe are being mistreated in America then you are only protesting yourselves! YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!Preseason NFL games signal the beginning of the fall and football season. Last night’s game was Cleveland Browns vs the N.Y. Giants. Escapism right? Nope! Players have decided they are going to use the NFL as a “platform” from which to champion their views on America. I don’t know, but didn’t America gave each and every man in the NFL the opportunity to educate himself. And didn’t America gave these men the opportunity to create millions of dollars of income for themselves? Where else in the world can such a group of men using their particular skills sets obtain the wealth and prestige the men of the NFL have? Yet according to CNN Cleveland brown players:
Duke Johnson Jr., Terrence Magee, Jabrill Peppers, Calvin Pryor, Jamar Taylor, Seth DeValve, Kenny Britt, Ricardo Louis, Christian Kirksey, Jamie Collins, Isaiah Crowell and Brandon Wilds. While standing nearby in solidarity were players: Britton Colquitt, Jason McCourty, DeShone Kizer, Trevon Coley and Shon Coleman. Seventeen millionaires, some multi-millionaires, and the best that they can come up with to effect social change is to protest the National anthem by taking a knee, in protest of a country that has given them everything they have. The question goes begging, what did you all do over the off season, play video games? Did you buy cars and houses and did you take long vacations or just hang out? Did you travel nationally or abroad? Did each of you eat well? Or did you organized think tanks, and foundations for a change? Did you'all meet around a conference table and plan an economic stimulus plan for the communities you claim to have so much concern about. Did you'all pool a million dollars each and hire a staff to work on the problems as you see them? What positive things did you'all do to effect the change you believe is needed in this country? Frankly kneeling and praying was for a time when people had nothing but a hope and a prayer. This is the 21st century and if that’s all you got then you don’t deserve the wealth that each of you has. If any of you who kneeled during the National anthem have done nothing with your wealth to help people you believe are being mistreated in America then you are only protesting yourselves! YOU ARE THE PROBLEM! Also, the “platform” you are using is not yours. The NFL has spent billions of dollars over time creating an entertainment business. One which people come to see the sport of football. So you protesters are literally pissing in your own drinking water when you use the NFL for you own personal social protests. What if you came to work one day and the NFL was closed because of your actions. Here’s a prediction, continue this behavior, using the NFL as, your “platform” the NFL "platform" will topple over from the mass exodus of football fans who will abandon the NFL because of your misuse. Maybe the owners will sue you for the destruction of their business if this results. Just a thought! Finally, Here’s what the fans are thinking, Hey Cleveland Browns, hey NFL the 60’s called and they want their protest back. The 60’s said if you want to change things in American in the 21st century try spending some of that wealth you all are hoarding on yourselves. The cars, the jewelry, the big houses and the big bank accounts. If you are serious about changing the world, sell all that you have and follow the rest of us struggling to make a dollar. Or, here’s an idea, use the millions that you and your fellow protesters have to organize and do something real. In other words, get up from your knees and use your wealth to affect change. That’s how it’s done in the 21st century!
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