ESPN announced recently that the NFL will play the "Black National Anthem" before the actual, legal national anthem before each first game when the season starts.
The NFL can do whatever they wish - I don't and won't watch them anyway. But I am curious when the "Black National Anthem" came about and what law was passed making the song a national anthem. The "Star Spangled Banner" is the official national anthem of the United States. To my knowledge there is no other.
Professional sports organizations are not only condoning racial division but some are promoting it - the NFL and NASCAR being two prime examples. After a decades long struggle for equality it seems some Americans desire racial separation and even self-induced segregation, with black people demanding black only spaces on college campuses, etc.
And before anyone even starts, (and I know some who would) this isn't Trump's doing. Nothing about the current state of racial tension has anything to do with Trump. George Floyd was killed by police on Trump's watch. That is true. But several black people were killed by police on Obama's watch and there were protests and rioting following those events as well. So let's not pretend it's Trump's fault. If you go there you're simply being foolish.
The division is only growing. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are still calling for the murder of police officers while they continue to destroy property and assault people. The violent mobs, made up of mostly young, white idiots, are trying to push the country toward Marxism and most of them probably have no idea what it is.
These groups are destroying historic statues "in the name of George Floyd" without even understanding the significance of many of them. In one city they pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and spray painted "George Floyd" on the base. First - what has Christopher Columbus got to do with George Floyd and second, if it wasn't for Columbus the idiot protesters would even exist. There is no sound logic in their actions. Destroying ties to our history doesn't change our history. George Orwell was more right than even he knew.
Politicians are trying to defund police departments, much to the peril of the citizens. (Politicians don't have to worry. They use our dollars to hire security for themselves.) AOC wants to completely defund the NYPD. Might I suggest the NYPD remove all police from her family's neighborhood initially to see how it works out?
The proposal to defund police departments, and the reason for the proposal, would make an outsider think black people are being slaughtered by police on a daily basis. That's simply untrue. If you're honest you understand that the instances are the exception, not the rule. And in most cases the shootings have been ruled as justified and some of the deaths ruled to be accidental by the courts. But facts and truth don't usually matter to an angry mob.
The now infamous couple in Saint Louis, who armed themselves when a group of protesters broke through a wrought iron security gate and entered their supposedly secure neighborhood and began threatening them with death, are not out of the woods yet. There is talk that protesters plan to return to the neighborhood with violence and the couple has alkegedly been told by the police and several private security firms that they are on their own and to simply leave and let their beautiful home be destroyed. Since when is that acceptable in the United States of America? And where are the couple's friends and neighbors?
Sadly, I see armed confrontations in America's future. Gun sales have skyrocketed since March and many Americans are prepared to defend what's theirs. Black Lives Matter says they are training paramilitary groups to fight police and say they are "headed to the suburbs." But the suburbs are where most of the armed citizens are. BLM and Antifa might not like what they find if they venture out of the safety of Democrat run cities. But I fear it may happen. And it will be ugly.
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