Not the time or place, Colin

Colin Kapernick, quarterback (for how long...not sure?) for the San Francisco 49ers has been protesting what he calls police oppression of minorities.  He protests by refusing to stand for the National Anthem.  And he pulls this stunt on Armed Forces night in San Diego, Is it freedom of speech?  Perhaps.  He has the freedom not to stand for the National Anthem and I have the freedom to call him an idiot.

Athletes should stay out of politics.  The Nazis were not right to try it at the 1936 Olympics and overprivledged milliionare ball players should not try it today.  They just look like idiots.

Oppression of minorites? 

Who is the president today?  Is discrimination legal?  Segregation has a thing of the past since about the 1960s.

Is America perfect?

No, not even close.

I don't need a lecture from some pompous overpaid ball player to tell me what is wrong with the world. I can see that myself.  I try to do something about, here and there, little by little.

You want to change the world, Colin?  Make  a statement and stop playing football to do it.  Then you might learn the meaning of the word "sacrifice", something those members of the US military standing in front of you can tell you about.

Until you stop collecting checks every week that are more than most people will see in their lives, just shut up and stop telling us about how tough your life is.

Get a nine to five job, climb out of your ivory tower and walk around in the real world. Then we can talk.

Thus endth the sermon.