I heard the other day that NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick
was auditioning to replace Natalie Maines as the spokesperson for the band Dixie
Chicks. Seems the guy forgot who his
demographic supporters are, which gives him a real shot at the job. At the rate
he’s going, he needs to run for higher public office, as in my experience that
is par for the course. Get to the top,
forget how you got there, and then do your own thing. It helps to have a righteous cause to
convince yourself it is worth the risk.
I have no problem with Colin or Natalie exercising their 1st
Amendment rights, which are freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and
petition. I do it all the time. I also know who I am talking to most of the
time and if it offends them, I am pretty sure they are not paying me a salary,
or expecting me to endorse a product for a fee or salary.
When Dixie Chick numero uno stood on that stage in England and declared she was embarrassed of the
President of the United States,
she made a couple very serious errors. One, she was in a foreign country and
she’s an American Country and Western singer. Two, a whole bunch of people who
buy her records supported GWB. Three, she forgot she was a singer and pulled
the classic Smothers Brothers routine of using the entertainment stage to
express her political views. Four, her remarks ultimately killed her band and
income stream.
They are finally active again and guess where they are
entertaining? Small venues. The top C&W band went from the mountain
top to the valley low and like Jane Fonda’s legacy, many red-blooded patriots
will turn the channel when their music plays, let alone attend a concert.
Now let’s a take a look at this NFL Quarterback for a
second, who has a yearly salary of 19 million dollars. Like Ms. Maines, he has
forgotten a couple of things, so he can push a cause which has nothing to do
with football. His cause is so sensitive that the politically correct crowd
have no option, but to back him and they will. The truth of the matter is no
one wants an athlete to use their position in a sport to do anything other than
play that sport. Next, he represents this franchise and as quarterback, the
brains of the team. What he is doing is not team related and he’s doing it on the
field. If it were not of the race card being played, I imagine they would set
his butt down and probably fine him to boot.
Let’s take a simple traffic cop who decides to make a
political statement right in the middle of an intersection as an example. Ain’t
nobody got time for that. Let him do that on his own time. If Colin Kaepernick
wants to make an impact, he should set up a fund to help black people out of
poverty and the social punji stakes laid down by white people. He makes 19
Million dollars a year for goodness sake and has a palatial mansion that you
can view on the Internet.
Sadly, by all accounts his talent is waning and he’s sort of
engaged to the radical Islamic militant disc jockey Nessa Diab and has become
“all riled up” mainly due to her perceived injustices and liberal Berkeley
education. Never mind that she is also semi-famous and kind of successful and
has a blooming career in TV and radio.
Why can’t people just be happy to be doing well? Why do so
many privileged and financially blessed people feel the need to go on the
warpath to expose the evil system that made them successful? Why does George
Clooney (estimated personal wealth 180 million) support a party that wants to
tax him more than it currently does? Why
would George Soros (24.9 billion) support a political candidate who wants to
redistribute his wealth? It makes no sense to me at all.
The only distribution of my wealth I support is my own
spending. I want the government to keep its stinking fingers out of my wallet
and I have no trouble saying that to anyone. Football players need to support
their teams and keep politics and personal biases and opinions off the playing
field. The same goes for all sporting events, award shows, and entertainment
venues.
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