I
feel sorry for NFL players protesting our national
anthem.
They have swallowed the lie their plight is due to
discrimination, inequality, police brutality and
white privilege.
It is not racism which shackles the black,
brown and red man, it is socialism; ironically, the
very ideology to which they are most loyal.
These protests will eventually collapse the
NFL, returning minority players to the hood,
unemployed and completely dependent on the ruling
class…exactly as planned!
Here is my
take on my white privilege.
I am a blue-eyed, freckle-faced Irishman;
about as white as you can get.
I began life a privileged ranch kid on the
greasewood flats of eastern Montana.
My family’s cow business droughted out twice
during our ten-year, tenure, but I was too young to
understand.
I do remember the rare days when a downpour
turned the alkali flats into our redneck water
slide.
My two brothers and I would sprint naked across the
prairie, plop to our backsides and slide through the
sagebrush.
We chose nakedness for mechanical over
modesty reasons, as when clad in underwear, we were
so skinny the mud would squish up the leg holes of
our Fruit of the Looms, thus markedly increasing
drag—going naked improved our gumbo-dynamics.
If we had white privilege, you would need a
garden hose and scrub brush to find it and when it
rained, this Ingomar country kid was living the
dream.
When I was eight, we moved to the family
homestead in Wyoming.
I was the third and fourth grade in a
two-room country school.
Years later, a one-hour bus ride took me to
Tongue River High where I met and later married my
high school sweetheart.
We attended college together, where I earned
my doctorate and she her bachelors before raising
three children, who married and gave us 17
grandchildren.
During all this, I established my veterinary
practice and bought the family ranch.
None of these milestones were reached because
of my skin color and I have friends from different
bloodlines living equally prosperous, productive and
happy lives.
The secret is something other than white
privilege, which brings me to my point.
In today’s America, an individual is truly
judged not by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character, just as a famous black
reverend once dreamed.
Attention pro athletes:
Reject white privilege excuses and embrace
Godly privilege.
If you live by the Ten Commandments, you will
prosper as did every civilization in the Old
Testament which feared God.
Kneel in reverence to Him rather than in
rebellion against American liberty.
You can choose your future, so choose wisely.
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