America is a pretty incredible country. I would willingly give my life if it meant that I could protect it. What I'm really just having the worst time wrapping my head around is what "Americans" choose to get angry about.
When people say "America is outraged 49ers Quarterback Doesn't Stand for National Anthem," that statement does not include me. I'm not angry at all. I'm sure a lot of people aren't angry at all. So don't lump us all in there to that ignorant statement. Yes, I love this country, and I'm sure that quarterback does too, but he's just fighting for something he believes in, and isn't that what America is all about?
I haven't lost an ounce of sleep over the fact that a quarterback of a football team who makes hundreds of millions of dollars decided not to stand for the National Anthem. That's his beef, his choice, his life, and it made some people so angry they got their whiny asses off of their couch and pulled the keyboard warriors away from their computers for one second to go burn their jerseys. Good for you dude. Good for you for burning $80 of your own money in your front yard.
You know what the irony in that statement of yours that you posted on your Facebook, is that this is a free country, and you are just as much allowed to destroy your own property on your own property as someone is to not use their muscles to stand up for the musical soundtrack of The United States of America.
What's absolutely driving me INSANE is that this man may not personally be oppressed because he is a professional athlete, but my FAVORITE PART of the whole thing is how ANGRY the racists were about his actions so they TWEETED HIM and called him the "N" word. He's standing up (or not standing up) for something he believes in, and he's allowed to do so. He doesn't feel like a group of humans are being equally treated, and man, have the white supremacist's proved that with their ugly words and moronic burning videos.
I'm just going to sit here and let that logic just set in for one second. You realize that he's being oppressed for "standing up" for oppression right.
"AMERICAN'S ARE OUTRAGED - QUARTERBACK DOESN'T STAND UP FOR ANTHEM"
Is that really what Americans are outraged about?
Why can't we get that OUTRAGED by the amount of innocent people that are dying by airstrikes in war torn areas like Syria. A child made the front cover of the New York Times because the entire globe was so moved by this poor baby who was bloody and dusty, because he was just sitting there, not crying, just wiping the blood from his head. We just couldn't believe his demeanor but it's not like we did anything about it, and you mean to tell me that we aren't outraged by that?! Because guess what, ya'll, it absolutely kills me.
People are literally begging to die in refugee camps, and we are worried about a man who's exercising his rights as an American under freedom of speech. 600 human beings who are being detained by the Australian government have asked for assistance in ending their lives because they are living a life that is nothing close to humane.
Be outraged that their are floods killing people in Louisiana and sweeping homes away and we're barely discussing it let alone trying to help.
Be outraged that we choose to talk about what Kendall Jenner is doing with her hair this week rather than the earthquake that just killed hundreds of people in Italy.
You know what I do lose sleep over? Innocent people losing their lives. I lose sleep over babies losing their families in air strikes, whole countries fleeing their houses and their belongings to be treated like wild animals in other countries who refuse to help them. I lose sleep listening to the "Mother's of the Movement" crying over their slain children on national television because they cannot believe that they not longer have their children on this planet with them anymore over trigger happy individuals, gang violence, racial profiling, and rioting.
I'm losing sleep over the fact that I live in a country that has two complete idiots running for president, the media covering a liar over a woman winning an Olympic medal in wrestling, hundreds of thousands of people are dying in terrorist saturated areas, teachers are underpaid, post-grads are drowning in debt, animals are going extinct, we have memes over a dead gorilla...and yet, people are angry about an athlete believing in something.
