I sat down yesterday to write, record and post this commentary and considered just giving you ninety seconds of dead air and a page of no words but decided against such. You see, I gave a five second block of time to actually think about it and it only took 1/5th of that time to realize that not showing up to work doesn’t do much except disserve one’s customers.
I’m not playing the game of imputing into others positive motives, it is more important to look at what people do and what it accomplishes.
Professional millionaire athletes refusing to do the work for which they are amply paid in self-described protest of anything outside the actual management of the game they play is overreach and ineffective.
Ask yourself this: Has there been more, or less, indiscriminate racial division, street violence, arson and looting, and general hate of fellow citizens on display since Colin Kaepernick began the fist in the air and kneeling movement?
Has violence increased or decreased since wealthy athletes and their coaches began showing disrespect for the idea of being one people under God by kneeling during our National Anthem?
Sometimes protest, especially when it is focused on specific items and directed at the right people who hold the political power to make needed changes, is valuable. But, it is easy to delude oneself into thinking indiscriminate action meaningful because you feel your motives to be positive.
In making political and social change, results are what matter and it is fairly clear that the actions of athletes as well as street mobs aren’t effecting change that any sane person would call positive.
Has athlete “protest” led to more or less violence?
I’m not playing the game of imputing into others positive motives, it is more important to look at what people do and what it accomplishes.
Professional millionaire athletes refusing to do the work for which they are amply paid in self-described protest of anything outside the actual management of the game they play is overreach and ineffective.
Ask yourself this: Has there been more, or less, indiscriminate racial division, street violence, arson and looting, and general hate of fellow citizens on display since Colin Kaepernick began the fist in the air and kneeling movement?
Has violence increased or decreased since wealthy athletes and their coaches began showing disrespect for the idea of being one people under God by kneeling during our National Anthem?
Sometimes protest, especially when it is focused on specific items and directed at the right people who hold the political power to make needed changes, is valuable. But, it is easy to delude oneself into thinking indiscriminate action meaningful because you feel your motives to be positive.
In making political and social change, results are what matter and it is fairly clear that the actions of athletes as well as street mobs aren’t effecting change that any sane person would call positive.