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NFL ticket sales are whoppingly off, and viewership is WAY down.
Kudos to DirecTV for allowing viewers to cancel their Sunday Ticket packages – and there were MANY. Sure would be interesting to know what the DirecTV cancellation numbers are . . . . .
The NFL has lost the trust of millions of viewers and it will be very hard to regain that trust – if EVER!
Folks are sick and tired of the politicization of everything and the LunaticLeft keeps banging that drum to their peril.
He gets it.
There are several outstanding articles and videos of former NFL all star Burger Owens worth watching. This article was written by him with a must see video attached.
Ex-NFL star Burgess Owens: The flag and why I stand:
“It is possible that by visiting our past, Americans might gain insight as to why successful black American athletes feel compelled to kneel as we honor our flag and white corporate leaders refuse to take a stand to defend it.
In a world where slavery, totalitarianism and kingdoms were the accepted norm, the young American experiment was indeed a paradox. Though it was America that introduced to the world game-changing concepts like “We The People” and “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” it would take another 87 years and over 600,000 American lives to atone for slavery and to begin to align itself with our Founders’ vision.
In the meantime, there was another reality for millions of African slaves whose experience mirrored that of a young African boy brought to America in 1848. He arrived in the belly of a slave ship and was sold with his mother at an auction house in Charleston, South Carolina. Orphaned by age eight, his harsh, abusive and deprived American experience was just beginning.
How can our nation reconcile the depravation of that young eight-year-old slave with inspirational success stories of other Americans during that same century?
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Millions of other Americans from every other culture share this American experience. It is the gratitude of our present generation for our ancestors’ grit and tenacity that forges a spiritual connection that gives us pride in our country’s flag.
It is this connection that most black Americans do not have due to the sanitization of their history.
So why do I stand?
I Stand- in gratitude to an eight-year-old boy, my great-great grandfather, who remained hopeful, tenacious and faithful as he grew to proudly serve his family, community and country.
I Stand- in gratitude to a grandfather whom at the age of 15 years old, volunteered to serve in WWI. As a successful farmer, he raised 12 children who would all earn college degrees and taste of the mid-1900’s American dream.
I Stand- in gratitude to a father who succeeded in the day of institutional racism in the arenas of academia, as a researcher, an entrepreneur, a dedicated father and husband and a pillar of his community. He once recounted that his greatest life decision was volunteering and returning home as a proud WWII veteran.
I Stand –in gratitude for the proud, successful, entrepreneurial and segregated Tallahassee, Florida, community where I grew up. The people of that community were determined that they would never be looked down upon or pitied as a race of victims.
I Stand- as an example for the millions of black youth who have not been taught to love God, country, family and themselves by the liberal Leftist overseers who have controlled the urban community for the last 60 years.
I Stand- against the sanitizing of our history. The Left has already done so within the black community, resulting in the lack of gratitude seen on today’s NFL sidelines.
I Stand- as a voice to the NFL corporation leadership…it’s time to Stand Up, Man-Up and defend our country and culture. This will only occur when patriotism is valued over popularity, profit and politics. ”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/31/ex-nfl-star-burgess-owens-flag-and-why-stand.html
It’s a tragedy that the horror of slavery and the oppression and exclusion of blacks is the only history being taught. Of course this part of history should never be excluded or hidden. But children should also be learning about blacks who made important and valuable contributions, some prior to the civil war, despite these conditions. We learn about a few but not nearly enough to be representative. See here, here, and here as examples.
It’s stupid, dangerous and defeating for blacks and whites to get a single faceted understanding of the times…as we see in the radical side of the BLM movement, Kaepernick’s resentful negative attitude, flash mob violence, militant protest…cop killings. These people have been crippled by a story devoid of the heroism, strength and success that should be woven through the dark reality of the black experience of coming to America. We (our ancestors) did not all arrive here in the same fashion, nor were we all fortunate in our beginnings, but we can all share the one thing that sets America apart…the strong desire to be a free people who experience the unalienable rights granted us by a higher power and acknowledged by our founders. Burgess Owens understands this…God bless him.
I hope we can overcome the forces that want to send America back to the evil divisive realities, hatred, and derision in our early history. We have fought hard as Americans to overcome and to to live up to the words that ring so true and clear in our founding documents…and are not to be denied.
Only when they realize that America is the land of equal opportunity and not equal outcome will they be able to move towards being free to achieve their life goals. It’s took a long time to get here and many lives lost along the way, but being a victim today is a choice for far too many.
Burgess Owens and Ben Carson are just two of so many others who chose not to live in the past blaming those for mistakes made a century ago.
My motorcycle riding instructor would yell at us, “Do not look where you do NOT want to go, because your body will turn in that direction.” Good advice for life today. You’re not going to get very far looking over your shoulder all of the time.
This Holocaust survivor has a lesson many of us could benefit from today.
Video of Holocaust survivor forgiving Mengele goes viral:
“Kor’s story of the strength she gained from granting forgiveness has been watched over 120 million times on Facebook since it was posted on September 27 and more than 3 million times on YouTube, where it was posted on September 15.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/video-of-holocaust-survivor-forgiving-mengele-goes-viral/
The final step in being set free within. It’s an act of personal responsibility that few seem to understand. We own our experiences. If we want to be free of negative hurtful things we must forgive.