David Robbins
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Maybe I shouldn't make a thread on this, but I don't want to reply to every thread on this subject. However, I have something to say. I served my Country in the US Navy for 6 years, and received an honorable Dishcharge for my service. I served to provide rights for everyone. Constitutional rights. We have a right to freedom of speech. This is for everyone, including for messages we don't like, such as the Nazi Party and so on. I don't condone hate messages like theirs, or anyone elses, but they do have the right to speak their minds on a subject.
Drew said something that a lot of people didn't agree with - including me - but, he had the right to say it. What he should have said was that according to his opinion......if he had done this, I don't think this would have gotten so blown up. Instead, it sounded like it was a wrong action to stand up - in the way you chose to do it - for what you believe in. KK is another who was let down in this way. He has basically been black balled from the NFL because of his freedom to speak his mind in a peaceful protest of kneeling during the National Anthem.
Now, here's the deal. Many people use the saying that when someone does this, it's because people are disrespecting the Veterans of the Military who have faithfully served their country. At first, I kinda took it that way myself. Then, all the publized killings began to happen, and I began to understand why people were protesting. It made me begin to look at their point of view in a different light.
Now, Drew has "stuck his foot in his mouth." However, I believe it's because of the way he worded his response. I don't think that he had it in for anyone, or their beliefs, or right to protest. If he had simply worded his response in a more sympathetic way, most of this backlash could have been avoided.
This country needs to be healed, and that could begin by more and more people banding together to try to fix the system. It's very obvious that there is a problem. Problems are meant to be solved. Instead of advancing the problem and "crucifying" Drew for his mis-worded response, everyone should accept his apology and move on. Everyone who knows Drew should know that he is no racist. He made a mistake, but it's fixable.
I don't really take offense if someone kneels during the anthem. I do take offense when forgiveness can't be accepted when asked for.
This recent "murder" of George Floyd was simply that - murder! I truly believe that if that had been a dog or a cat, the out cry would have been much more harsh. Maybe that's a perspective, but people take more offense over mistreatment of animals sometimes than they do of people. George Floyd was brutally murdered. But, I take more offense that it's taken all this time to arrest, and charge these so-called police officers for their crimes, than for a protest (peaceful).
Maybe this is just me, and how I feel. But, I felt I needed to express it.
Drew said something that a lot of people didn't agree with - including me - but, he had the right to say it. What he should have said was that according to his opinion......if he had done this, I don't think this would have gotten so blown up. Instead, it sounded like it was a wrong action to stand up - in the way you chose to do it - for what you believe in. KK is another who was let down in this way. He has basically been black balled from the NFL because of his freedom to speak his mind in a peaceful protest of kneeling during the National Anthem.
Now, here's the deal. Many people use the saying that when someone does this, it's because people are disrespecting the Veterans of the Military who have faithfully served their country. At first, I kinda took it that way myself. Then, all the publized killings began to happen, and I began to understand why people were protesting. It made me begin to look at their point of view in a different light.
Now, Drew has "stuck his foot in his mouth." However, I believe it's because of the way he worded his response. I don't think that he had it in for anyone, or their beliefs, or right to protest. If he had simply worded his response in a more sympathetic way, most of this backlash could have been avoided.
This country needs to be healed, and that could begin by more and more people banding together to try to fix the system. It's very obvious that there is a problem. Problems are meant to be solved. Instead of advancing the problem and "crucifying" Drew for his mis-worded response, everyone should accept his apology and move on. Everyone who knows Drew should know that he is no racist. He made a mistake, but it's fixable.
I don't really take offense if someone kneels during the anthem. I do take offense when forgiveness can't be accepted when asked for.
This recent "murder" of George Floyd was simply that - murder! I truly believe that if that had been a dog or a cat, the out cry would have been much more harsh. Maybe that's a perspective, but people take more offense over mistreatment of animals sometimes than they do of people. George Floyd was brutally murdered. But, I take more offense that it's taken all this time to arrest, and charge these so-called police officers for their crimes, than for a protest (peaceful).
Maybe this is just me, and how I feel. But, I felt I needed to express it.