One thing I have learned about protest is that the only people that act like they don’t “get it” is the people that the protest group are protesting against, and after they act like they don’t get what your protest is all about, they further try to humiliate you, by always questioning your protest tactics. Like “taking a knee” or another when a husband, who is clueless about why is wife is mad, when she catches him with another women, and the caught husband, puts up a “smoke screen” making it about her: saying ” The problem is not me cheat, the problem is your not trusting me and following me around!!!”
Then the argument changes, from personal, (a hurtful, act of a cheating spouse.) To a ethical act, (a ” jealous” spouse going crazy over a innocent dinner between friends).
The protest I’m referring to is the protest of Colon Kapernick, How did America get here? arguing about “police shootings”, “taking a knee”, and patriotism vs. civil disobedience. Is this a “smoke screen”? To avoid actually talking about problems in America? Is it actually about Patriotism? Looking back just a couple of years we see, a entirely different picture. During Pre- Hurricane Katrina, we only saw American flags in schools and Government buildings. We didn’t recognize or buy a American flag, also during that time, more Confederate flags sold than American flags. Now post-Katrina, Americans are talking about Patriotism buying flag ” me included”. Another unusual thing, I can’t for the life of me understand, after the Civic War, after the most violent act of treason against our government, and a shameful act of Violent Disobedience, we get monuments and statues, of the subversives, and year’s later, and it takes a citing of racial violent clash to get them removed.
Crazy huh.
We are and always have been a group of people that fight against teariney and oppression, look at our history: We fought against the oppression Britain to gain our freedom, We fought against the oppression of slavery, we also fought against the oppression of women in the suffrage movement, We learned many lessons from these clashes, one of them is that, all of those fights were needed and the price was ” bloodshed”, pain and tears, and we have had enough of that.
However we are also the nation that has
this song as our national anthem:
Lyrics
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for heroes proved,
In liberating strife,
Who more than self, their country loved
And more than life
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
If you’d like to join me, please do!
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
To shining sea!
So Please let’s not allow the smoke screens of word like: Patriotism, Civic Disobedience, flags and kneel, divide us and take away from the words in this great Anthem that unites us!!!!