Dear NFL,
You were doing your part to bring people together and heal the world. That’s really how healing works. We heal by loving each other and leading by example; showing people what is possible when we love each other just as we are and not only recognize our differences but celebrate them and look at how we can use them together to make us jointly better than our separate parts. You were doing your part celebrating each other based on skills, talent and a joint vision without regard to color and religion.
You were doing your part and we were doing ours. We showed up cheering and groaning together to as one. We talked in the concession lines and commiserated and celebrated our team together. Did it ever occur to you that you and we were already a mix of backgrounds, races and religions? We were already living the dream you want, right in front of you.
Your desire to focus on division and anger has shattered what many people loved most about the sport. Football was really a metaphor for our ideal world — different backgrounds, talents, political beliefs and histories as one big team with one big goal — to do well, to win, TOGETHER.
You are asking us to abandon what we loved about togetherness and make choices of division. Will we stand with you? Will we stand with our flag? What does it mean? What does it mean if we buy a ticket or NFL gear? What does it mean if we don’t? It is the polar opposite of the easy togetherness we once loved in football.
It was simple – we loved you and you loved us – with all of our races, religions, different backgrounds and politics. Simplicity in a crazy world was pretty awesome.
You dear NFL, have taken that. You have lost me here.
If you ever want to get off your knees and get to work on building bridges, let me know. I have found screaming about the problems in service marriages or even standing in silence in front of them, hasn’t healed even one of them.
On the other hand, funding the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation, building a team and rolling up my sleeves to get in the trenches during my “off time” — volunteering there outside of my paying jobs — has proven to make real change.
You have a lot of strong guys, I am sure in the off season a lot of them could build some pretty big bridges if they care enough to do the hard work. That would involve getting off their knees and getting to work though. If I can do it while I raise two kids as their only parent and work through the greatest pain of my life, let’s see if they can do it for the issues they say they care so much about.
Go Longhorns and Sic ‘Em …
Sincerely,
Taya
Paul Plante says
I am a twice-wounded Viet Nam combat veteran, unsung, unknown, like so many others, unheard of, which is fine with me since I did not enlist in the Army to get my name in lights, and with all due respect to this lady (sorry for your loss), I cannot believe that in 2017, I am reading this following sentence in the Cape Charles Mirror, to wit:
“It was simple – we loved you and you loved us – with all of our races, religions, different backgrounds and politics.”
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All of our “races?”
WTF, people!
What races?
What a stupid, inane statement that is.
Are we now so absolutely stupid in this country (and yes, for all the pain of loss this lady feels, as a combat veteran, mine is ten-fold) that we now think or believe that there are different “races” of people living on this earth of ours?
Who are they, pray tell, all these different “races”?
The dog race?
The cat race?
The Venusian race?
Or that race of Martians who attacked us with those pod things in the War Between The Worlds?
Are they still around?
I think America must now have a collective IQ hovering somewhere between 18 and 20 when I read or hear about people, supposedly adults, talking about the Mexicans as a separate race, or the Polish people as a separate race, or the Chinese people or black-skinned people or white-skinned as separate races.
What kind of slip-shod “education” system do we have in this country that turns out people who do not know that there is only ONE race of people on this earth, and that is the HUMAN RACE – homo sapiens, regardless of what you might look like.
That separate race BULL**** died down in Hitler’s bunker at the end of WWII when Hitler, the little rug-chewing idiot, ate a bullet and removed himself from human society.
The myth of the Aryan Superman was just that – a myth.
And among others, it was Americans of all skin tones and ethnicities who put that myth to bed, supposedly for good.
So why has it re-surfaced all these years later in 2017?
And as an American citizen, I do not ask that as a frivolous question.
WHY?
Why are we talking like idiots in this country about all the different “races” playing what I consider to be a stupid game played by people of a lot of bulk and body mass and limited intelligence, as if we were watching something from out of Startreck?
Personally, I do not watch football, although I played it in high school, but the few times I do catch it, especially with all these childish protests by these highly overpaid idiots doing the “protesting,” and over what, I might ask, they all look human to me.
So what is this idiotic talk about all the “races” coming together to play football?
I was seriously ill this past week to the point of having to be hospitalized in a local VA hospital, and the people who were my care givers were black people, Puerto Rican people, people from the Dominican Republic, people from India and white people and Chinese people, and they were all human beings, not people of different “races.”
I owe my life to them, for my life was in their hands, and to them, REAL AMERICANS, I owe my thanks.
As to these idiots who play football and who are not man enough to stand when the Star Spangled Banner is playing, with the REAL AMERICANS like me who don’t make the big bucks playing pro football, but instead go out and take our place on the line that keeps those big overpaid babies safe so they can make fools of themselves on national TV with their “protests,” **** them.
Turn off the TVs, people.
Stop watching the fools.
Stop paying $20 for a lousy hotdog at a football stadium so these fools can make those big bucks.
Cut off their means of earning a living.
It is as simple as that.
Paul Plante says
And what, pray tell, is it that the NFL was doing to “heal the world?”
Heal the world of exactly what?
Wife beating, perhaps, and slapping the **** out of your girlfriend?
And what is it that the NFL was doing to “bring us all together?”
When did any of that happen?
How about the NFL and its bloated, arrogant team owners who buy and sell people like cattle being a symbol of everything that is wrong with America today, instead?
Who pays for those fancy stadiums where these bloated, arrogant team owners sit high above the masses who are paying $20 for a lousy NFL hotdog, in their luxury boxes, with their fancy spreads of food that ordinary Americans could never afford to buy, as if they were some kind of royalty?
Do they pay for those stadiums, from which they derive their riches, or is it the common taxpayer, who can’t afford the price of a ticket to get in the door?
And when the taxpayers won’t knuckle down to their demands for more luxurious stadiums, what is it that they do?
They leave is that answer, and go somewhere else, where they can get the politicians to put the squeeze on their taxpayers to build them a new stadium.
Why are we pretending that these bloated, arrogant team owners and the overpaid, pampered louts they have on their teams who get paid the big bucks for pushing at each other and grunting a lot “love” us?
What they all love is the money they can squeeze out of us, so they can live their high lifestyles, and why are we pretending otherwise?
Why don’t we all stand up together, upraise our right fist with middle finger extended and shove it right in their arrogant, bloated faces and tell them that these “protests” of theirs dishonor all the generations of Americans who get off their dead ***** each day, and go out and work, and serve in the military, so these bloated, arrogant team owners and the big crybabies who play football for them can live their cushy lifestyles?
They don’t like the Star Spangled Banner?
Why?
Who do they think it was that went off in WWII to fight fascism in Europe and Japanese imperialism in the Pacific region?
Or is it that they don’t even know?
They live in a FREE country where they can live like rich pigs with their snouts in the trough up to their ears because common people who stand for the Star Spangled Banner when it is played went off and fought fascism and Japanese imperialism to keep this country free.
And now, they are too good to stand for that song themselves?
What a real insult to every REAL AMERICAN that is, and as I have said before, **** them and the horse they rode in on.
(No, I am not “celebrating” them now, nor do I intend to tomarrow.)
Tell them they are what they are – UN-AMERICAN!
Tell them that each time they don’t stand for the Star Spangled Banner, they are DISHONORING every American of every ethnicity and skin tone (no, we don’t have separate races of people in this country) who went off to war and fought and bled and died for the freedoms they enjoy today to insult us by not bothering to stand for OUR national anthem.
BOYCOTT them.
BOYCOTT all their corporate sponsors.
Put them right out of business.
And if they don’t like it, let them pack their bags and go and find some other country that might want them because we don’t want them here.
Paul Plante says
Talk about the perpetuation of gross ignorance in this sorry, mentally-ill and drug-addicted nation of ours such as was displayed by Taya above here with her statement about “all of our races,” we have it in spades in the TODAY story “Why this Air Force general’s powerful speech is going viral” by Scott Stump on 28 September 2017, where we were told as follows:
Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria gave a forceful talk to a group of cadets on Thursday after five black students at the Air Force Academy’s prep school in Colorado found racial slurs written on the message boards outside their rooms two days earlier.
“If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out,” he said.
“If you can’t treat someone from another gender, whether that’s a man or a woman, with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.”
The general continued: “If you demean someone in any way, then you need to get out.”
“And if you can’t treat someone from another race or a different color skin with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.”
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And again I find myself asking the question of exactly what this Lt. General, who is in his first year as the superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, which seems to be accepting malicious, infantile morons as cadets now, given the need for his recent speech, is talking about when he says “if you can’t treat someone from another race with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.”
Who on this earth of ours is someone from a “different race?”
Where is this Lt. General in our Air Force getting the idea from in 2017 that there are people of different races in this country?
Is ignorance of reality a requirement to promotion to Lt. General in the Air Force today, or does he have inside information that there are really space aliens walking around in America from off those flying saucers everyone says the Air Force is keeping hidden from us, because that is the only way we could have someone of a different race in this country, a point which was made in the Soldier’s Handbook that I and every other American entering the United States Army in 1968 were issued, at page 2, which stated as follows:
As you look around you will not find a “typical American soldier” in height, weight, color of eyes and hair, family origin, education, wealth, intelligence or similar characteristics.
The soldiers you have met and will meet are from all walks of life and all parts of our country.
But all of you have two things in common.
First, you are all serving the United States of America and believe in the principles that make it a free country.
This not only gives you a common bond with your fellow soldiers but also guarantees you the same chances as the next man to get ahead.
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No talk in there about “different races” because that concept of people, human beings, being of different races was totally discredited at the end of WWII, when the myth of the Aryan race and Nazi superman was put to bed along with the rug-chewing madman Adolph Hitler.
As to that, let us go to WIKIPEDIA, under the heading of “Defining race,” where we find as follows:
Modern scholarship views racial categories as socially constructed, that is, race is not intrinsic to human beings but rather an identity created to establish meaning in a social context.
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A “social context,” people with no scientific basis whatsoever, which means that if you are talking about “different races” today, you are ignorant, and don’t expect me to “celebrate” you for it, because I won’t.
Getting the heart of the matter, WIKIPEDIA gives us this:
Such racial identities reflect the cultural attitudes of imperial powers dominant during the age of European colonial expansion.
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Now, pause and reflect on that for a moment, to grasp the import of what it is saying.
If someone, like this Lt. General, is talking about “different races” today, assuming he is not talking about space aliens, then they are mired in the gross ignorance of an age that is long since dead and gone, although it seems to be having a revival in this sick nation of ours today, judging from what is going on out at the Air Force Academy where this Lt. General is superintendent.
And that raises the question of WHY?
Why are we backsliding in this country back to the cultural attitudes of imperial powers dominant during the age of European colonial expansion?
Is it because time really is a loop, not a straight line forward, so the past becomes the present all over again?
Any guesses, anyone?
The candid world which watches would like to know.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Keerist, now you are going after Tara Kyle?
GET HELP PAUL.
Paul Plante says
Going after Taya Kyle, Mike?
Not hardly, dude, and Mike, you really need to shop around wherever it is that you are and see if you can get somebody to take you into a remedial reading program, or maybe an “English as a second language” program, because you have a very demonstrated inability to read and comprehend the English language as written, as evidenced by your inane comment above here which I am replying to herein.
Here is exactly what I said, Mike:
“Talk about the perpetuation of gross ignorance in this sorry, mentally-ill and drug-addicted nation of ours such as was displayed by Taya above here with her statement about “all of our races,” we have it in spades in the TODAY story “Why this Air Force general’s powerful speech is going viral” by Scott Stump on 28 September 2017.”,
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So I am not “going after” Taya Kyle, Mike.
What I actually am doing is standing up to the perpetuation of gross ignorance in this sorry, mentally-ill and drug-addicted nation of ours, as any sane and rational mature American citizen should be doing, and the fact that Taya might be the wife of dead SEAL does not in any way exempt her from her own citizenship responsibilities, nor does it give her license to spew ignorance in an open letter without challenge.
Having said that, Mike, what I am “going after” is how people who write slurs about black people managed to get into the Air Force Academy in the first place.
You don’t just walk into the Air Force Academy; you need a Congressional appointment, so what Congress people are responsible for getting these misfits into the Air Force Academy?
Wouldn’t you like to know?
Or don’t you care?
What kind of standards are these Congress people employing when they select candidates for the Air Force academy who would run down black people for being black?
What the hell is wrong with this sick country, Mike?
Do you have a clue?
Or don’t you give a damn like so many others in this country today?
What kind of parents, and what kind of community, and what kind of school systems produced those infantile idiots at the Air Force who wrote those comments?
Air Force officers are supposed to be gentlemen, yet these misfits are common thugs, so how did they get into the Air Force Academy in the first place?
Because their parents had political clout and bought their way in?
Join the cause, Mike!
Raise your voice in objection to the perpetuation of gross ignorance in this sorry, mentally-ill and drug-addicted nation of ours as I am doing.
Or is it that you would rather have it that way?
The candid world would like to know.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Will no one spend time with this man so he can get the help he needs? Loneliness is a killer.
Get help, Paul.
Paul Plante says
Mike, your comments above are autobiographical.
You are talking about yourself, not me.
And people would like to know, Mike, if you are a professional internet troll who is paid to come in and disrupt threads in here which somebody in power wants disrupted, or are you a troll on your own, because of some derangement you suffer from?
And can we infer from the above attempts by yourself acting as an internet troll and stalker, paid or otherwise, to take this thread off topic and your failure to address any questions I posed to you above that you are for white people in the Air Force Academy acting like ignorant common thugs by writing slurs on the message boards of black people and that despite having no scientific evidence to back your position, and in spite of scientific evidence that demonstrates your position to be ignorant bull****, that you are one of those ignorant morons in this country who believes black people and Mexicans and Polish people are a different race than white people, and therefore, inferior to them?
Are you stuck in that myth of the Aryan race and the Nazi superman, Mike?
Do you parade and strut in front of your mirror dressed in the uniform of a Hauptman or Obersturmfuhrer in the Waffen SS Deathhead unit?
The candid world who watches you, and wonders at you, would truly like to know, so help us out here and give us the truth of the matter.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Buwahahahahahahaha!!!!! I love the way you racists accuse we JEWISH people of Nazism!!!!!!
Get help Paul. Get help. You’ve now put forth 9/11 conspiracism, attacked a man who died that day and [edit] on the widow of a true American hero.
GET. HELP.
Paul Plante says
Over in another thread, specifically Andy Zahn’s thread on the Fifth Column, where you, Mike Kuzma, Jr., were also seen engaged in harassing troll conduct and mindless heckling as you are again doing, admittedly quite well, in here, showing you have a God-given talent as a heckler and internet troll, with your mantra repeated over and over again, in slurs and innuendo implying “VIET NAM VETERAN MENTALLY ILL AND DANGEROUS NEEDS HELP VIET VETERAN,” I quoted from Federalist 10 by Virginian James Madison, known as the “Father of the Constitution,” thusly:
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
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Spectacles of turbulence and contention, Mike, that’s what these football protests are a part of.
Have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.
Now, having been an infantryman in Viet Nam, Mike, which service you mock and deride and intimate makes me “mentally ill and dangerous” and in need of “help,” and being an old disabled veteran now, that part there about “have ever been found incompatible with personal security,” really resonates with me in here because of you using your innuendo and slurs to call out a mob on me:
“See that old man over there?”
“He’s a straight, white man who is a Viet Nam combat veteran.”
“He’s mentally ill and dangerous as a result.”
“He needs help.”
“He’s not one of us and he doesn’t celebrate us as he should!”
“Shut him up, use clubs and feet as necessary.”
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You’re trying to marginalize me, Mike, put me out on the fringe of your society as a despised creature to whom it is alright to do harm, just as was the case in early-1970 when I got back from Viet Nam and people like you were spitting at me in the San Francisco air port, and you foolishly think because of your marginalization of myself, that I have been stripped of my right to express myself in here, with the permission of the Cape Charles Mirror moderation team, of course, and there you are dead wrong.
Your malicious slurs about me do not serve to strip from me my right to speak out in here, whether on “9-11,” or on the inane statement made above by Taya, who wants you and me to “celebrate” each other, Mike, about “all our races,” as if black people and Mexicans and Polish people are all a different race than Taya, or the scandal at the Air Force Academy where white cadets who are supposed to be “officer material” in the U.S. Air Force are in reality nothing more that common street thugs, and if you don’t like that Mike, it’s too bad.
Cancel your subscription to the CCM in protest, and that will certainly get your voice across that you want editorial control over what is posted in here, to suit your tastes.
Stamp your feet like HILLARY Clinton does, as well, because it was so effective of HILLARY.
And stamping your feet is a real crowd pleasure, Mike, so have at it.
As to Taya being the wife of a “TRUE American hero,” are you implying that with my Silver Star for Gallantry in action in Viet Nam and my 2 Air Medals, and my 2 Purple Hearts, and 2 Army Commendation Medals that I am some kind of FALSE American hero, or a piece of dog ****, without the same right to speak in public that Taya has?
As to my supposed “9/11 conspiracism,” Mike, this is exactly what I said, as you can confirm for yourself http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/should-our-response-to-911-have-been-nothing/ , to wit:
Paul Plante says @ September 12, 2017 at 11:07 am:
On 9-11, I walked into a coffee shop in a small city on the Hudson River north of NYC, and the first thing I was confronted with was this young person on the verge of hysteria screaming at me, “did-ja hear, the terrorists hi-jacked four planes and they are flying them into building!”
My response then and now was, “that is impossible, how could someone hi-jack even one plane I the USA at that time, let alone four?”
Of course, this hysterical person has no response to that, being hysterical as he was, and being young, he was clueless at to the history of airplane hi-jackings which preceded 2001 and all the so-called “security” measures put in place to prevent the hi-jacking of even one plane, let alone four at the same time.
Anyway, I sat down, drank my coffee, watched a plane fly into one of the World Trade Center towers, watched the flames, etc., etc., etc., all the time wondering, wondering, wondering, because when something impossible is happening, like the masterful hi-jacking of not one, not two, not thee, but fully four big airplanes, that peaked my curiosity.
That could not have happened but for either collusion from within, or gross incompetence.
And that reminded me of Operation Northwoods, which was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. (yes, some of us were actually alive and aware in 1962)
The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba.
The plans detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration.
Hmmmmm.
Back to you, Mike Kuzma!
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And here we are, right back there all over again.
So help us out here, Mike, especially as you are the only person in America left alive who can debunk all these 9-11 conspiracy theories because you possess the absolute truth as to what really happened that day – where is there any “conspiracy theory” in what I posted above?
Do us a favor, and point it out for us, if you can.
We’re patient, we will wait, clock’s ticking, back to you, Mike.
And oh, by the way, Mike, when was it about you being Jewish that came into this discussion before October 6, 2017 at 12:45 pm?
Have you ever come in here before to announce you are Jewish, and therefore have to be communicated with in a special fashion as determined by you so as to not discriminate against you as you discriminate against me in here with your slurs implying that because I am a Viet Nam combat veteran, I am mentally ill and dangerous and in need of help?
If so, I missed it.
And my God, Mike, that hacking cough of yours sounds terrible, dude.
You better get it checked out, or you aren’t going to have any vocal cords left.
And that is serious business, so quit while you can, Mike, it will be for your own good.