Posted on 08/30/2016 7:47:12 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
An Open Letter to Colin Kaepernick,
Dear Colin guess you have been pretty busy these last few days. For the record I don’t think any more or less of you for not standing for the National Anthem. Honestly, I never thought that much about you, or any professional athlete for that matter, to begin with. I’ve read your statement a few times and want you to know I am one of the reasons you are protesting. You see I am a retired police officer that had the misfortune of having to shoot and kill a 19-year-old African American male. And just like you said, I was the recipient of about $3,000 a month while on leave which was a good thing because I had to support a wife and three children under 7-years-old for about 2 months with that money. Things were pretty tight because I couldn’t work part time. Every police officer I’ve ever known has worked part-time to help make ends meet.
You know Colin the more I think about it the more we seem to have in common. I really pushed myself in rehab to get back on the street, kind of like you do to get back on the field. You probably have had a broken bone or two and some muscle strains and deep bruising that needed a lot of work. I just had to bounce back from a gunshot wound to the chest and thigh. Good thing we both get paid when we are too banged up to “play”, huh? We both also know what it’s like to get blindsided. You by a 280- pound defensive end, ouch! Me, by a couple of rounds fired from a gun about 2 feet away, into my chest and thigh. We also both make our living wearing uniforms, right? You have probably ruined a jersey or two on the field of play. I still have my blood stained shirt that my partner and paramedics literally ripped off my back that cold night in January. Fortunately, like you I was given a new one. Speaking of paramedics aren’t you glad the second we get hurt trainers and doctors are standing by waiting to rush onto the field to scoop us up. I’m thankful they get to you in seconds. It only took them about 10 minutes to get to me. By the grace of God, the artery in my thigh didn’t rupture or else 10 minutes would have been about 9 minutes too late. We also have both experienced the hate and disgust others have just because of those uniforms we wear. I sure am glad for your sake that the folks who wear my uniform are on hand to escort you and those folks that wear your uniform into stadiums in places like Seattle!
I guess that’s where the similarities end Colin. You entertain for a living, I and almost 800,000 others across this country serve and protect. Are there some bad apples within my profession? Absolutely and they need to be identified and fired or arrested! But you know what, the vast majority do the right thing, the right way, for the right reason. Did I mention that seconds before I was shot, an elderly African American gentleman walking down the sidewalk, turned to my partner and I as we rode past and said, “Get them.” Get who you ask? The thugs terrorizing an otherwise good and decent neighborhood, home to dozens of good, decent African American families trying to raise those families in communities not protected by gates and security guards. No these folks and families depend on America’s Law Enforcement Officers.
Colin I have buried 7 friends, killed in the line of duty and three others who have committed suicide. I have attended more funerals than I care to remember of neighboring departments who have lost officers in the line of duty, during my career. Law Enforcement Officers with different backgrounds, upbringings, and experiences united by their willingness to answer the call to protect and serve their fellow citizens.
Colin I am sorry for the endorsement deals you may lose and the dip in jersey sales, but please know you will NEVER lose what these men and women and their families have lost. And so whether you stand or sit during the National Anthem means very little to me. As for me and the men and women on whose team I was privileged to serve, we will put on our ballistic vests, badge, and gun, kiss our loved one’s goodbye, for some tragically for the last time, and out into a shift of uncertainty we will go. We will continue to protect and continue to serve and we will be standing at attention Colin, not just for the playing of our National Anthem, but far more importantly for the playing of Taps.
V/R
Chris Amos
Colin, you deserve to be run out of the country on a rail.
You’re a bastard and a moral traitor, serving the enemy.
Damn you.
Chris Amos...I thank you for your service to American people....
later
Thank you, Chris Amos!
Kaepernick will never be the man you are.
Ditto!
Kaepernick’s probably functionally illiterate.
I cannot use the usual way to say FU Colin Kapernailk as the abbreviation would be the perfect F word. Funny. Will suffice to say FU Colin. There is more to life than suffering a fool’s spoiled rotten ignorance.
#FireKapNow
My son is a combat veteran of Iraq ($150 a month combat pay), and a former federal Police Officer (K9, anti-terrorism, Diplomatic Escort, etc).
You are a whiny little shit who has never had to sacrifice anything for your country.
Now you disgrace your adoptive parents who took you in when your real parents abandoned you, and gave you a college education that led to big bucks.
You can play on the football field all you want, ignore the flag and National Anthem, but in the end, all you will be is a “loser”.
Those Whiteys who adopted Colon must be so proud. No good deed goes unpunished.
I would have a lot more respect for Kaepernick and his MTV-host girl friend if they were donating a decent percent of the megabucks incomes to causes that materially help the black family structure. We have over 70% of black children growing up without a father in the home. We have a black-on-black murder rate that is almost 10x that of other races.
What has Kaepernick done to help change the very issues that he thinks he is protesting? Nothing. What a fool.
#MarxistLivesMatter.
BUTT HOLE muslim plans to SIT again during a Big Military Salute Thursday night. Coach if you are smart you will confine him to the LOCKER ROOM until the Ceremony is OVER! Better yet LEAVE AMERICA!
http://thebiglead.com/2016/08/30/kaepernick-anthem-military-chargers-49ers-salute/
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