A Gentleman’s view.

A nation of one people (Americans) has nothing to fear but fear itself.

The White Supremacist males of America have full control of the Republican Party with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Sara Palin in charge and speaking loudly about the virtues of their mindset. The Party has co-opted Patriotism by pretending to be strong on military defense, and use thereof, yet unwilling to serve in uniform as a rule, strong on crime by finding ways the opposition may have  made some decision, statement or support that suggested otherwise, but won’t approve appropriations in legislation to fund the hiring of more officers, have a reputation for getting things done like any and all deregulation and approval of derivatives securities, and prime mortgages which eventually brought down this economy and almost the whole world. That is not enough, they now want football. Folks all over the place are screaming demon. Football is different from politics, though I would think many think it the same, competition, winning, fame, money, privilege, power run through both professions.

One thing the National Football League has claimed and proclaimed to the world is that black and white players get along there. Now Rush as the Party’s titular head is claiming for the party toughness as they have hijacked so many themes before. He has already claimed for the Republican Party to be the party of ‘Real Americans’, of ‘Hard working Americans’, ‘True Americans’ ‘Real People of Value’ Americans that the rest of the people in this country must not be, the honor and prestige of serving that comes with combat, but only by starting wars, integrity of fiscal responsibility like the ‘Contract with America’, patriotism of going to war with Afghanistan and Iraq, though it was found not to be for any good reason other than profit for the members of the Project for a New American Century Group. These guys didn’t get the memo about the white male thing going within the Republican Party and making a stand, they were just about making some cash for Halliburton, Google war with Iraq.

This makes perfect sense to me that they would want this particular sport and not baseball where the fight first started with Jackie Robinson. This quietly has taken over as the national pastime and the ultimate statement of physical confrontation for the fans and I believe even more so for the owners of these teams. We as men accept that every level of the male experience can and will be about competition and few would debate that.  Rush Limbaugh has at least become that sort of voice of the blue collar, average Joe type of guy who is just trying to make ends meet and wants the government to leave his paycheck alone if there is one in these trying times. They saw a mass of blacks released amongst them without any consideration of the impact on them; they watched the Latinos migrate up and break off even more resources and then experienced the error of bad judgment on the parts of politicians and businessmen alike.

They who Rush represents now feel like the exiled ones as the dreaded census reports confirm the numbers changing and not in their favor. I feel these voices that Glen, Rush and Sara represent are trying to make a stand to say, wait a minute here, America; we the good white folks of this sovereign nation would like to say we count too!, damn it, we are here and we count too! So getting a Football Team would allow them to bring together a like minded group of men with a sole purpose of proving the superiority of the white male of every position encompassed by the 53 men that make up a squad for a 16 game season every year after year after year. Like I said Football and politics are two distinctly different animals. If Rush thinks he can put that together and stir up enough passion year in and year out to convince these same 53 men and the numbers of backups necessary to maintain that quota throughout the season to injuries, death, family and just plain life.

Now personally, I like a person who likes to aim high, but I can’t imagine a scenario I can see where he would be capable of maintaining that kind of roster for a season. That would suggest two options, he has to bring blacks on board his program and learn something by the experience that would help him grow as a person, or one of them expresses themselves to the ultimate detriment of the owner of the club or the club itself. It suggest at least what we men appreciate as a show of spine I’m not sure he has, this remains to be seen. I think all of America could learn and grow from the experience and it might get ugly but, after all these are tough guys, what are they afraid of, one old fat white guy?

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