Stop Reading, Watching and Listening…Think It Through

That’s right.  Stop reading, Watching and listening……Think it through.

It’s taken me a while but I have stopped reading, watching and listening to the news.  As I have I’m able to think things true a bit more….logically perhaps.  Reasonably would be the right word.

I was just getting ready to write my blog about the difference in Mexico and Europe travel planning.  I’ve spent about the past week working on stays, transportations, and places to visit in Europe starting in Portugal and it’s Madeira Island.

As I was checking on my stocks I saw a news article that said The Miami Dolphins would suspend any players that kneeled during the National Anthem.



Now, this is neither about patriotism or politics.  It’s about one persons effort to bring attention to a wrong in society.  As much as Dr. Martin Luther King did back in the 60’s.

Colin Kaepernick.

Before anyone gets all huffy.  I’m only comparing a moment of standing up for a wrong in society.  So, get off your high horses and just enjoy.

I do get my news…..I don’t watch TV very much (I have my enjoyable and sometimes exciting reality to live out.), I read c-span.org, Politico.com and there’s a couple of writers that seem to be fair that I like to hear their point of view.

But it wasn’t til just recently that I stopped reading, watching, and listening that I experienced more inner peace, clarity and reasonableness.

And it was about Colin Kaepernick.

Good Intentions Gone Awry

His intention was to take his concern about police and blacks in society today that appeared to be unjust.  And I’m sure he had good intentions.  Those intentions have gone awry.  It began under the previous presidents reign.  And, the media stoked it to get some opposition creating a deeper and broader controversy to serve their own needs.  Those needs were ratings which equals money.  There concern never was with what Colin set out to accomplish.

My BIGGEST gripe about the NFL kneeling thing in protest, is that 99% of American workers can’t go to their job and protest without ramifications not limited to losing their jobs.

One other thing….which is minor to me, is that his purpose of protesting is now lost in that the NFL players are kneeling in protest of a president.  That’s the way this comes across now.  You very well will disagree, but stop reading, watching and listening.  Pay no attention and allow some peace to enter your being and allow all the emotions to melt away.  Then go back to the beginning.  Why was he protesting (at work of all places….I bet you if he were still the starting quarterback of the San Francisco 49’ers, he wouldn’t be protesting!)?  Why are the players now protesting?  Find some reason.  Evaluate.  You too may hate this or every president, but put that aside and be reasonable.  Besides, hate is not a good soul mate.



I don’t agree with everything this president or our past presidents did.  They are in office.  My most important input will be when the next election comes.  Think for a moment (there’s that word again, ‘think’) if you and I were to argue and let’s say you won, other than a temporary good feeling that you won an argument that you can’t do anything about…..what good has been accomplished?  You may have lost a friend.  Is that something to take pride in.

There is an injustice that seems to be ignored.  And that is the egregious un warranted law enforcement upon blacks. Colin was attempting to bring attention to the treatment of blacks.  I applaud him for that but I do believe that a better venue like, police stations to protest would have been more direct and powerful.  He would have gotten the publicity that his cause warranted.  And, honestly I don’t think we’d have all what we have in society today.

News Media Whipping Society

The goal of the news media today is to whip society into a frenzy, pitting one against another creating a very hostile situation and blaming it on a president that they didn’t endorse and falsely reported his demise before he even won.

I hope no one took this as political……because it really ain’t.  (I used the word ‘ain’t’ intentionally for the grammar police.)

I haven’t watched the NFL in going on 4 years.  Yeah, I watched the Super Bowl down in Mexico with a friend….and, in a bar maybe caught my incidental attention.  But, I’m not ‘Boycotting’ the NFL, it’s just that my everyday life is just too good to waste in front of a TV set.



If I did watch the NFL it would be to escape from the political tension that exists today……and that wouldn’t be the case.

Colin is right in his plight, but wrong in his choice of venue.

Peace, love, and beaches,

John

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