Eighth-grade football or the Real American Patriot

During the football season I'm in the classroom with a lot of eighth-grade football players. It's kind of fun having been a football player and gone to college on a football scholarship I am reminded of the innocence of a game I loved so much. But every now and then I notice that one eighth-grader who thinks because he's a football player, he's better than those who aren't football players. When I see such a player, I take the time to explain to the whole class about the levels of football. Being on the eighth grade is just one level of football. However, sometimes when they're immersed in the game some eight grade players think they know all about football. So I explained to them, that there is high school freshman level, high school sophomore level of football, junior varsity level of football, and varsity level of football. I explain how the levels continue with the many levels of college football. I try to get them to understand how ultimately most of the football players who come up through all of these levels of football would love to someday play in the National Football League. However few ever make it to the NFL. I explain to them, that until eight graders understand there are many levels and they must learn everything they can as they pass through each level, making it to the NFL, is a long shot at best. This normally helps them to appreciate what playing football is really about. Some Americans are a lot like those eighth-grade football players, who think they are better than everyone else. Those Americans are stuck in an eighth grade mentality, proclaiming to be so patriotic that all Americans should be measured by their criteria. If the rest of us don't see America the way they see America, then somehow we're un-patriotic. The truth of the matter is because of they have an eighth grade football level of understanding, they never looked upward to see that there's many levels of America. They don't understand, many of these levels within America have one thing in common. How one is treated in America has mostly to do with the color of one's skin and it has been that way since the Mayflower. Eighth grade America never aspires to acquire a better understanding of who they are. In fact eight grade America wants to dictate the manner in which anyone should protest the injustice, they themselves knowingly and unknowingly disseminate. These eighth-grade Americans call themselves patriots. What is a patriot? A patriot is a person who defends the country vigorously against enemies or detractors. I would add that the enemy can be domestic or foreign. In America there are many people calling themselves patriotic. To be honest, most of them are hateful nut jobs. But let's define a few of them. 1. There are so-called patriots who believe all other patriots should think the same or at the very least think like they think. So, they condemn anyone who thinks for themselves. 2. There are those so-called patriots who truly believe that the White man has special rights and privileges. Therefore, only they should be granted freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. 3. There are those so-called patriots who believe the government is never wrong, when it comes to everyone else but them. 4. There are those so-called patriots who live their lives based on what uncle Billy-Joe Bob tells them. These are the people who have no idea of the true facts about anything they hate about another group of people. The problem with ALL of the so-called patriots above is that they are blind patriots. Therefore they are dangerous to America. The reason they are dangerous is because the blind patriot is looking for a quick fix, like a drug addict. A drug addict can get along with others as long as there are plenty of drugs. They become dangerous when they run out of drugs and want a quick fix. When the drug addict or blind patriot can't get what they need that's when fake-ass leaders and drug dealers can get them to do and believe whatever they want them to believe. Soon the blind patriot will follow the fake-ass leader anywhere. This also when the fake-ass leader can give the blind patriot a reason why their lives are so miserable. Normally that reason has to do with another group of people in society. Example A. The reason the government is in debt is because so many Black and Brown people commit welfare fraud. The fact is there are more White people on welfare (food stamps especially) than everyone else combined. Example B. The reason real Americans are out of work is because immigrants legal or illegal are stealing all the jobs and doing them for cheap. I've worked in an area where there is a lot of fruit picking going on in the hot sun. I haven't see any so-called real Americans out in those fields. The fact is most immigrants do jobs that so-called real Americans are too proud to do. A real patriot cares whether the people of this country are ALL treated equally. A real patriot will defend with their life, the right of the people to protest when they are feeling mistreated. A real patriot understands America is just land, . It becomes special when it is united by its people. A real patriot knows America is made up by it's the people not a slogan. A real patriot knows sometimes a person or a group of people must not stand for the National Anthem when they aren't being treated fairly. That's because a real patriot understands that fighting for this country sometimes means fight evil within this country. Patriots come in different ethnicities and skin colors. If your patriotic philosophy calls for you to see yourself as better than people you don't look like you and you're willing to hate and hurt them, or stand by and watch others hate or harm them, then you're not really a patriot of the people of America. To be a true patriot you must realize, the psychology of America must incorporate and treat EVERY law-abiding citizen within its borders as equals. A real thinking patriot of the American people knows life in this country will never be peaceful or socially homogeneous, until we all understand America is nothing but land until we are untied as people. And like those eighth-grade football players, anything short of believing that America is nothing without her people, fake-ass leaders and non-thinking patriots will always view things from their eighth-grade perspective. Which means, a hundred years from now, America will still have race problems. America will still have the poor and homeless. And some fake-ass leader will still be telling America, immigrants legal or otherwise are why things are so bad.