Betty Bowers nails the real reason for the kerfuffle over NFL players taking a knee for the Star Spangled Banner. One need only listen to Jeanine Pirro or Donald Trump to understand that it’s really about dotards, who are so angry they’ve wrapped their racism in the flag and called it patriotism.
Betty breaks the various definitions of patriotism into ten educational yet delightful segments. There is no question that she is directing her message to faces and voices that are familiar to us all..Oh, the voices! I can’t help but think of Trump and his pit bull accomplice Jeanine Pirro when I hear Betty read number ten:
# 10 Patriotism is Not Bigotry.
Outrage over NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem isn’t about patriotism. It’s about SOME white people wanting black people to know their “place” to be “grateful” for whatever part of YOUR America they have been “allowed.” But not to get too “full” of themselves and treat America like it is “theirs” to change. Tom Brady can snub a White House invite but Stephen Curry can’t. Don’t pretend we don’t all know why…It’s not “patriotism.”