Colin Kaepernick’s protest came over police use of force against African-American men and women and other minorities. Kaepernick, a professional quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League has twice sat down during the playing of the national anthem. There has been a hue and cry about it from nearly every quarter, they say it is an afront to the men and women who are defending them from attacks and guaranteeing his freedom. A lot of sports fans hope he will get released and that he will get kicked out of professional football. There is talk of him being a traitor and that he should be dealt with as such by the authorities.

I am appalled, as we all should be, at the hypocrisy that is being belched out from almost all quarters, though I should not be for I have come to expect it from the self-righteous crowds that root for American interests without shame or consideration for fair play.

San Francisco police have had the audacity to threaten not to provide police security for the public stadium unless Mr. Kaepernick starts standing up for the anthem. But… I mean you have to be kidding me; that they should not be severely punished for even threatening such a high handed incredibly arrogant, unbelievable thing is incredible itself. Anyone who threatened to not back up his right to protest should be summarily fired. That is one of the jobs of the police. Let alone someone who is going to not do his job of protecting the rights of citizens until he stops asserting his rights? What the heck is going on with the police? Who do they think they are? I mean this is fascism at its very best. You have to be sh–ing me!! Really?!! The worst thing is most of America is berating Mr. Kaepernick.  

When I was a young man, old enough to be drafted, the Vietnam War was raging. Protesters were led by dissident groups, while music groups like Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez and Country Joe and the Fish sang and marched; comedians from Boston to San Bernadino mocked authorities; President Nixon was spit on, yelled at and threatened – deservedly so!

I did not feel it was right to condone what my government was doing in Southeast Asia or what my president was doing lying to the people as the leader of my country. I voted for George McGovern, he won the state of Massachusetts, the one I was voting in, it was also the only state out of the fifty states he won. To say the least I was in the minority. Even my mother and father did not approve. But in good conscience, when I didn’t have anything that resembled a good conscience, I did what I did. It really was a no brainer and everything that happened after that proved the protestors to be righteous and the flag wavers to be in grievous moral error. I believe time has proven that all those who refused to abide the conduct of this nation were not only within their rights, but we were right. That they were in the minority doesn’t make it any less correct.

Mr. Kaepernick not only has the right to sit down in protest against use of police violence against black men and children – HE IS RIGHT. That he is showing disrespect to the men and women who are protecting him from the evil opposition of the world rings as true as when we were told that the viet cong were a threat to my home and school in Tewksbury Massachusetts in 1970. I had no less than three classmates I knew and studied with that went there supposedly to protect me, all they found (and they were drafted) was a coffin fitted to size.

This is nothing against them or the people who have gone into the military but most have gone in not to protect me but because of the propaganda recruiting of our military to promise them a career that can get a lot of them out of poverty. I know people don’t want to hear this argument about America’s military ‘company line’ but you really cannot argue a sound case to the contrary.

Elisha’s Outcast Eagles agrees with Mr. Kaepernick that the real war being fought for our rights and health and welfare is on the streets of Ferguson, Mo., in Louisiana and in New York City and Florida and in my local school, even around my house where I live which was part of the Underground Railroad. I more than tip my cap to Mr. Kaepernick. He put his mouth where his money is he gave $1 million smackers for the cause of stopping the violence against blacks. The man should be applauded and his hand shaked, if anyone ever applauded him from scoring a touchdown or throwing a TD pass for their team; that person ought to genuflect and kiss his hand for giving a million dollars to stop this awful thing for which this country is and will be suffering great judgment for, just as God has promised we shall.

While writing my notes for this article I noted I had to say something about Nazi Germany and how the people were compelled by law to do whatever the military was claiming to do in their behalf. The people always claimed after the fact that they knew nothing, but it never washed with anyone who even gives a nod to the truth. We executed those who claimed they knew nothing. We are hypocrites one and all. We continue to exploit any situation for our advantage and we are told that its being done for us. Fascism pulled the wool over their eyes because it worked for the sheep to have things cleared for them to get what they wanted. This is not the place to discuss or shine the light on fascism and its methods of manipulating the minds of its subjects. Millions of words have been deftly executed in well written books in the aftermath of its hideous crimes against scapegoat people and how the washed majority of scared selfish sheep pulled the wool over their own eyes as people not like them were piled into pits as so much trash – yet the uncaring ones were and are to this day in the sight of truth by no means guiltless.

Mr. Kaepernick is doing something about a real problem, I applaud. I understand that Mr. Kaepernick is the adopted black son of two white parents. Three of my grandchildren are half white and half black. I know that Mr. Kaepernick, whether he believes it or recognizes it, is in the middle. He has every right to speak on this, he has every right to act on this. Every dunder headed self serving bigot can #!”?#… well, try to get out of themselves and try caring about someone other than their own selves. Instead try taking a page out of Mr. Kaepernick’s book, Kaepernick ought to be heard out on this deal.

I never rooted for Kaepernick but that’s because I’m not a 49er fan – never was – I was a Cowboy fan, I like a guy named Staubach. His college was Navy. I thought he was a standup guy – still think he is. But I tell you I’m impressed, in some ways in awe of Mr. Kaepernick. He scored one of the biggest touchdowns I ever heard of with this thing. They say football players need guts. Tell me Kaepernick hasn’t shown some guts on this run. Way to go. My hat’s off to Colin.        

We at Elisha’s Outcast Eagles have made it clear that there is no godly country on the face of the earth; and this country is the one the scriptures called The Raiser of Taxes.