Colin Kaepernick Takes a Knee

This election cycle has been a shameful joke that has exposed how America has slid backwards to the "goot ole daze." San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick takes a knee during the national anthem when others stand; I don’t find that disrespectful. Yet he took it in the groin for his peaceful acknowledgment that some things about America are just not true. He is not proposing anything violent. He is just an American citizen employing his right to free speech, even it is in the work place in front of millions.

Couple weeks ago I was watching South Park, a show that I was turned on to by my son in his wee years. The character de jour was Colin Kaepernick and his taking a knee his way of pointing to the fable that the United States is the “home of the brave and the land of the free.” If Americans once could have laid claim to that aspiration it is a dim idea now. We are in some kind of weird vortex, so strong it has confused, baffled and led astray the best attributes of this country’s sensibilities.

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