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With the start of NFL football yesterday, I must salute those brave and patriotic players and teams who take a stand against police brutality of black people. I must share this poem and video that my Miami Dolphins posted on Twitter. I stand in complete solidarity with the Dolphins on this issue.
BREAKING NEWS: The@MiamiDolphins players will stay inside for both national anthems. They express their discontentment with what they call โfluff and empty gesturesโ by the @NFL pic.twitter.com/ghUktHhPt9
— Jay Williams (@RealJayWilliams) September 10, 2020
It is authentic? Thatโs the mystery.
Or is it just another symbolic victory?
Now thereโs two anthems. Do we kneel do we stand.
If we could just right our wrongs we wouldnโt need two songs.
We donโt need another publicity parade.
So weโll just stay inside until itโs time to play the game.
Whatever happened to the funds that were promised. All of a sudden we got a collapsed pocket?
The bottom line should not be the net profit. You canโt open your heart when itโs controlled by your wallet.
Decals and patches. Fireworks and trumpets. Weโre not puppets. Donโt publicize false budgets.
Ask the pundits and we shouldnโt have a say. If you speak up for change, then Iโll shut up and play.
If we remain silent, that would just be selfish. Since they donโt have a voice, weโre speaking up for the helpless.
Itโs not enough to act like you care for the troops. Millions for pregame patriotism. You get paid to salute.
Lift every voice and sing? Itโs just a way to save face. Lose the mask and stop hiding the real game face.
So if my dad was a soldier, but the cops killed my brother, do I stand for one anthem, and then kneel for the other?
This attempt to unify only creates more divide. So weโll skip the song and dance. And as a team weโll stay inside.
We need changed hearts. Not just a response to pressure. Enough. No more fluff and empty gestures.
We need owners with influence and pockets bigger than ours. To call up officials and flex political power.
When education is not determined by where we reside. And we have the means to purchase what the doctor prescribed.
And you fight for prison reform and innocent lives.
And you repair the communities that were tossed to the side.
And you admit you gain from it, and swallow your pride. And when greed is not the compass, but love is the guide.
And when the courts donโt punish skin color, but punish the crime.
Until then, weโll just skip the long production and stay inside.
For centuries, weโve been trying to make you aware.
Either youโre in denial, or just simply donโt really care.
Itโs not a black/white thing. Or a left/right thing. Letโs clean the whole bird, and stop arguing about which wing.
Then, Flores faced the camera, and concluded:
Before the media starts wondering and guessing, they just answered all your questions. Weโll just stay inside.
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