God Bless You Mike Ditka! Back in 2016, Ditka slammed washed up, has been quarterback Colin Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers who spent much of that season screaming out for attention by kneeling during the national anthem. Kaepernick claimed that it was to protest police brutality and racial injustice.
Even after the death of George Floyd in May, Ditka still feels the same way an disagrees with the claim that there is systemic racism. He has not changed his opinion one bit from back when kneeling became the rage among professional athletes in 2016.
USA Today said that in an interview with TMZ Sports speaking about his women’s football X League, he was asked about the peaceful protests from athletes that have been resurrected in the wake of Floyd’s death, occurring during the national anthem.
Major League Baseball, the WNBA, NWSL and MLS have all seen players protesting during the national anthem since they restarted after being shut down due to COVID-19.
“If you can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country. That’s the way I feel. Of course, I’m old fashioned. So, I’m only going to say what I feel…You don’t protest against the flag, and you don’t protest against this country who’s giving you the opportunities to make a living playing a sport that you never thought would happen. So, I don’t want to hear all the crap.”
The claim has been however that the athletes are allegedly not protesting against the flag or the anthem. Well the facts seem to contradict the narrative.
As Breitbart noted, Kaepernick convinced Nike last year to scuttle their plans to sell a 4th of July themed shoe which bore the “Betsy Ross Flag.”
Then this year, Kaepernick took the occasion of Independence Day to slam the country that allowed him to make good money playing a child’s game, calling 4th of July a “celebration of white supremacy.” It should be noted that Kaepernick is bi-racial.
Ditka is set to become chairman of the X-League, a woman’s tackle football league which is scheduled to begin play next April.
Major League Baseball, which just started a joke of a season at 60 games (a routine baseball season is 162 games) has jumped on board the protest bandwagon. Major League Baseball is, however saying that the protests have “never been about the flag.”
On Monday during an exhibition game, members of the San Francisco Giants took a knee while the national anthem played in front of a stadium filled with cardboard cut-outs of fans. As we said, a joke. Oh, they are also piping in fan noise. Can you say bush league?
Members of the @SFGiants kneel during the National Anthem. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/QbvAvCZiEs
— MLB (@MLB) July 21, 2020
Some fans took to Twitter to protest MLB joining the land of the woke. And MLB was quick to use their official Twitter account to refute assertions made by some fans that the league was condoning attacks on the American flag and our military.
One reply was sent to a tweet from a fan, who reminded MLB that the national anthem is played not for police officers (whom everyone suddenly hates while they embrace BLM Marxists) but to honor our military and their sacrifices. The tweet went on to say that it shows a lack of respect for the men and women fighting for our freedom.
The national anthem is sang for our military not our law enforcement firstly. You kneel you’re disrespecting your military. Yes black lives matter, kneeling for the national is showing complete lack of respect for out men and women fighting for your freedom
— Mike G (@Mike25555) July 21, 2020
To which MLB responded, “It’s never been about the military or the flag. The players and coaches are using their platforms to peacefully protest.”
Not about the flag? Let’s quote the no-talent hack who started the “kneeling is cool” protests, Mr. Kaepernick.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. 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.”
That last sentence of course refers to police officers.
Not happy with just spitting on the American flag, Kaepernick showed his true colors when he wore a shirt which praised former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, someone who did actually leave dead bodies in the street and who did oppress people.
Kaepernick also proudly and publicly wore socks that portrayed all police officers as pigs. But this was just about the BAD cops, right?
What else did the poster child of kneeling say? In 2016 again, Kaepernick said that the United States was never great, and that he was literally standing against the country in general, not just kneeling in support of “social justice” with his anthem temper tantrums.
During the Betsy Ross flag fiasco, after Nike had announced its intent to release the shoe, Kaepernick fired up the anti-American mob to attack Nike for the proposed shoe. During one of his rants against the proposal, Kaepernick actually compared the U.S. Betsy Ross flag as a “symbol of slavery.” Nike of course caved to the mob and canceled plans for the shoe.
Kaepernick has claimed that America has “dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized” blacks for centuries. That was when he called 4th of July festivities a “celebration of white supremacy.” Well apparently that “white supremacy” does not extend to the NFL, where fully 70% of the players are African American, while the country’s population is only 6% African American. The NBA is even less “white supremacist,” with 80% of NBA players being
Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of “independence”, while you enslaved our ancestors. We reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all. ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/YCD2SYlgv4
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2020
Of course back in 2011 before Kaepernick realized he was oppressed (oh, and when Barack Obama was president), he sang a different tune about July 4.
So strange under the Obama administration you loved the 4th of July. https://t.co/i7gG8wzU8m
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) July 5, 2020
So, to get back to Major League Baseball, they may need to rethink their statement that kneeling during the national anthem was “never about the flag.” Colin Kaepernick, the messiah who started the movement, may have a different opinion on that, when he made it quite clear the protest were about opposing the flag, the country and savaging every police officer in the country.
Baseball, which has already been struggling with relevance for some time, may want to rethink it’s foray into “woke-land.” It seems that they are badly misreading a good percentage of their fan base.
They want to get rid of The Star-Spangled Banner as the National Anthem. They’re about to make it our battle hymn.’
As social justice warriors try and destroy America – and seem to be doing so at an accelerated rate – there’s now a push to remove The Star-Spangled Banner as the National Anthem. The National Spokesman for Law Enforcement Today, Kyle Reyes, has something to say about that.
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“Leave us alone.”
I think that’s the consensus among the overwhelming majority of Americans.
We are sick of the riots. We are sick of the quarantine. We are sick of being controlled and attacked like we’ve never before seen in our lifetimes.
“Leave us alone.”
We are sick of being told we are racist because we don’t embrace the extremism of Black Lives Matter… yet still believe that, like all lives, black lives do matter.
We’re sick of having our jobs, homes, families and lives threatened because we support law enforcement.
“Leave us alone.”
We’re sick of scrolling through social media and seeing the latest news that lawmakers are destroying the Second Amendment. That politicians are telling us we can’t go to church. That celebrities want us to be shamed for wanting to see family and friends.
“Leave us alone.”
We’re sick of being told that if we don’t wear a mask in public, we’ll have to pay a huge fine that we can’t afford because the government putting so many companies out of business with their draconian measures. We’re sick of then seeing thousands of people riot in the streets without masks.
“Leave us alone.”
We’re sick of seeing indoctrination in our schools that literally LIES to our little children and teaches them that police hate black people.
We’re sick of watching books be burned. Statues be destroyed. History be erased.
“Leave us alone.”
We’re sick of living this new life of anxiety. We’re sick of restless nights because we hear a sound and think “is someone there?” or “is it finally happening in my neighborhood?”
“Leave us alone.”
We’re sick and tired of watching the America that we love destroyed right before our eyes. And the sleeping giant is about to awaken.
We’ve sat here quietly. We’ve watched the tension build up. It’s like an earthquake, right? Sometimes those tremblors are simply a preview of a massive quake that’s about to come. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet, folks.
“Leave us alone.”
You couldn’t do it, could you? You just had to push and push and push. And now you want The Star-Spangled Banner?
We are approaching a breaking point.
Here’s the deal.
The editor-in-chief of Yahoo Music wrote an article asking if it’s time to replace “The Star-Spangled Banner” with a different anthem. He says it’s because racism accusations against the man who wrote its words, Francis Scott Key, who is of course dead and can’t defend himself.
Just last weekend, protestors pulled down Key’s statue in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for that reason.
They also destroyed with one of former Union General and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
Then on Wednesday, the Tulsa Athletic — a National Premier Soccer League squad in Oklahoma — said it no longer would play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at home matches.
They’ll now play “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie instead, which the team called “a new song of patriotism.”
Black activist and journalist Kevin Powell was interviewed for the article. He had plenty to say about Key:
“He was a very well-to-do lawyer in Washington, D.C., and eventually became very close to President Andrew Jackson, who was the Donald Trump of his time, which means that there was a lot of hate and violence and division.
At that time, there were attacks on Native Americans and Black folks — both free Black folks and folks who were slaves — and Francis Scott Key was very much a part of that. He was also the brother-in-law of someone who became a Supreme Court justice, Roger Taney, who also had a very hardcore policy around slavery.
And so, all of that is problematic. And the fact that Key, when he was a lawyer, also prosecuted abolitionists, both white and Black folks who wanted slavery to end, says that this is someone who really did not believe in freedom for all people. And yet, we celebrate him with this national anthem, every time we sing it.”
In George Orwell’s “1984” he wrote:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.”
That’s where we are today.
Let me tell you what I want for America. Because not that you know who I am or particularly care, but in many ways – I am YOU. Regardless of what you look like.
I have three little girls and a wife. I love them dearly.
I don’t want to fight people. I don’t want to be bothered. I want to sit by the little blue kiddie pool and dangle my toes in the freezing cold water with them.
I want to sit outside in our little backyard at night with my wife, drinking cheap American beer and listening to Hall and Oates.
I want to go to church – not under threat of arrest – and thank God for the blessings He has bestowed upon us.
I want to run with my family playing Tag in the park. I want to cook burgers and dogs. I want to hang out with our friends – our gay ones, our black ones, our Hispanic ones, our straight ones, our Christian ones, our Jewish ones, our Muslim ones – ALL OF THEM – and do what we always do. Break each others’ balls and laugh and joke and not talk about politics.
I want a world like we had where I was growing up – where you could pray how you wanted, vote how you wanted, live like you wanted without garnering the hate of your family and neighbors because they stalk you on social media and have decided they hate you.
Is it silly to think that changing The Star-Spangled Banner might be the breaking point for many Americans? Perhaps. But every night, as we tuck our girls into bed, we pray with them. And we sing that song. Because to our family, it’s bigger than us. It’s bigger than ALL of us.
It reminds us that there’s hope we can still be one nation, under God, indivisible.
Now I wonder if perhaps we’re indivisible after all.
Just understand this – if you eliminate The Star-Spangled Banner as our national anthem… it might very well become the battle hymn of countless Americans who asked you to do just one simple thing that you couldn’t seem to do…
“Leave us alone.”
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We at Law Enforcement Today want to make our stance very clear.
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We needed to fix it. And so we are.
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We have a problem in society. Censorship has created an existential threat to democracy. But even worse is the risk we run that some of these incredible stories of patriotism, hope, faith and our Sheepdogs would be lost.
We’ve launched a series of content with Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) to share the stories of survivors. We will also be dropping a weekly law enforcement focused newscast that addresses some of the most important topics in the country… and helps bridge the gap between those who serve and those whom they serve.
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We will not be silenced. You shouldn’t be either.
God bless you all, and God bless America.
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