All Things Tatum

Jesse Williams is an actor who got on BET and made what I would consider a compelling, articulate, and poetic speech but a wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, and a hate speech. He’s the most digressive progressive person that I ever heard of and I’ll tell you why. Jesse was born in ‘81 to interracial parents. His mom is white and his dad is Black. I guarantee you that they met and started a relationship during a time when interracial relationships weren’t popular.

To go against the grain, they decided to be progressive. They decided to not let culture and society box them in to the status quo. They chose love over racism. But then 30 years later you have their son completely unraveling what they’ve established and him putting them back into the box. There’s no reason when you come from a progressive family and in a moment of sharing love and success that you cause division and stupidity.

I saw this joker face-to-face and this is the problem that I’m seeing with all of these Black Lives Matter people and all these other jokers that want to stimulate and perpetuate racism is that they like to make blanket statements about stuff that’s totally inaccurate.

We’ll start with the blatant white people mentality. First of all, it’s time for us to move on and move forward. Yes, there’s things that happened in history but it’s time to move forward. You can’t sit in the past all day and be the victim; it’s time to be the victor.

Be specific about the white people and this whiteness that you’re referring to because I know for a fact that the person who is selfless and spends her life nurturing is your mom who’s a white woman. You need to be better for her. You weren’t raised by a Black woman; you were raised by a white woman who probably busted her tail and did a really good job. So you need to be better for her, not for Black women.

You’re just trying to say something to make everybody feel good because you’re at the all-Black awards banquet. Let’s be specific about the white people you’re talking about and I’m gonna tell you who you’re not talking about. And this is the problem with most people that make a blanket statement and won’t be specific.

Start being specific. I’m going to be specific about who you’re not talking about. You’re not talking about Abraham Lincoln. Abolishment of slavery. You’re not talking about the white individuals who sacrificed their lives and their houses to assist Harriet Tubman in the underground railroad. You’re not talking about those white people. You’re not talking about those who fought in the Civil War for Black people for the betterment and incorporation of Black people into this society.

You’re not talking about my high school football coach who took it upon himself to promote his love, bloodshed and tears for all of us young brothers who everyone forgot. We had 9 D1 athletes and 4 All-Americans all on one team. He put his heart into that. You’re not talking about the athletic director that gave me a scholarship and paid for my undergrad degree. You’re not talking about none of my teachers. My white teachers that don’t get paid anything but they still poured out love in a school that I went to that was rough.

If I saw you and I spoke to your face this is who I’d tell you you’re not talking to. You’re not talking to my brothers and sisters wearing that uniform that put their life on the line for me every single day and that would die for me in a minute.

Get your record straight brother. While you’re going around spewing out lies you’re really hurting the Black community because you’re lying to them about Sandra Bland. First of all, cops didn’t kill her, she killed herself. You need to address her character; we can control the things that happen to us based on character. It doesn’t matter what other people do, it’s about you. If you want to fix your situation and you want to know how you can be successful then look in the mirror.

Michael Brown or the young kid Rice that got shot in the park. He wasn’t just running around the park acting like a kid. You’re putting out false information. You’re giving people false hope. He had a gun in his hand, pointing it at people and running after people. They don’t know if it’s real or not. I think they could’ve handled that situation a little better. Them shooting him was not unjustified. What would you do Mr. Williams?

You’ve probably never been in a police car before. What do you do? You act, you make money. You come from a good home. And you’re lying to other Black people, getting them all riled up, being fake. You talk about the issues Black people are facing so we can do some introspection because we control what our community looks like.

We need to stop killing each other, that’s what we need to do. We need to talk about the recidivism rate. We need to talk about dropout rate. We need to talk about single-parent homes. We need to talk about that. We need to face the music. We need to do better for ourselves and therefore other people will respect us a little bit more. \

That’s what you should be getting up and talking about. You don’t need to point the finger at the white man. Point the finger at yourself. Point the finger at what you’ve done. Point your finger at what all those people at the BET awards have done. Don’t get up spewing out that stuff when you’re receiving an award from an organization that’s owned by a white man. Don’t get up and try to play the race card. Don’t try to play a Black power card.

When you talk about somebody needing to sit down, you need to sit down. I’m a Black man, I’ve been through things, I’ve lived in this country obviously and I’m telling you to sit down brother. If I saw you face-to-face I’d tell you to sit down; I don’t care about your money. You need to sit down or you need to change your rhetoric. You need to change the way you approach these situations.

I don’t understand why I’m so different. How am I so different from these other African American people who oppose me so greatly? Why do I not see the world the way some of these other people do? I just don’t understand! I grew up in the hood, I grew up in the suburbs, I’ve been to college, I experienced so much diversity in life and I’ve seen a lot of different stuff. I’ve seen the stuff that these people claim they’ve seen. So why do I not feel and see what they see?

People continuously talk about white privilege. Why do I not feel that there is such a thing as white privilege? I don’t feel it. I hear people talk about it; they wanna ramble and put numbers together to prove their point but I don’t feel that in any aspect of my life – even when I went to an all Black school in the hood where the only white people were teachers and police – that white people had privilege I didn’t have.

Even as a grown adult, I go vote like anybody else. I went to college like anybody else. I applied myself and I got grades based on my performance just like anybody else. I applied for the police department just like everybody else. I got the job! I was selected because I busted my tail and did well in the interview. I was at the top of the list.

I’m not afraid of the police. I don’t get harassed by the police. In 12 years I’ve been pulled over maybe 4 times. I’m not in fear for my life when police pull me over because I know I’m not committing any crimes. Why do people feel like there’s some type of fear of police? I don’t feel it. I’ve never experienced it. It just baffles me!

Why is it that Black people feel oppressed in this country? I feel just like everybody else. Individual people may dislike me or want to treat me differently, but as a society there are no laws in place that I feel hinder me from being an American citizen or that cause me to somehow have a disadvantage in life. There’s no laws on my credit score. I don’t get 5 points knocked off because I’m Black.

I bought a house in a pretty much all-white neighborhood. My realtor was white. I probably got the best deal on the block. I don’t understand where this white privilege and Black oppression is coming in at. I grew up in the hood and I never felt oppressed when I was in the hood.

Driving home from work there were a couple things on my mind. Many people have asked me, “Why do you want to be a police officer?” And the answer really boils down to the fact that somebody’s gotta do it. Someone needs to stand up as the barrier between criminal activity and law-abiding citizens. Somebody has to protect those who can’t protect themselves.

It’s interesting that in the United States a lot of people have an issue with those who make the decision to protect and serve. It baffles me that so many people have issues but never have a solution to the problems around us. People want to criticize me for being an African American police officer. I just go out and do my job and I’m a part of the solution instead of the problem.

To the people who are negative towards police officers or who think it’s a daily sin for a Black man to be a police officer, I would tell them to stop making excuses, stop pointing fingers at everyone else, be accountable, and be a part of the change. I became a police officer because I wanted to be a part of the change.

I have strategically put myself in a position where if I see something that’s going wrong or I see injustices within the police department or within policing that I can make a change and a difference. I’m not sitting at home nagging or talking about how police are doing this or that. I’m physically in a position to do the right thing, be a good example, and interject changes where needed.

For all you haters hating on police officers out there – why don’t you become a police officer? Go down to your local police station and put in an application so that you can be a part of the change. If enough of you put in an application, you can patrol your own community. You can do it the right way! If you don’t like the way it’s being done or you don’t like the way people treat “your people” or the people in your community, then YOU become a police officer and you start treating them right. YOU make the change. YOU be the innovative part of the future instead of sitting around nagging, hoping someone will give you a handout or feel sorry for you.

A lot of people in society nowadays avoid accountability like the plague. They don’t know how to be accountable anymore. One thing my dad used to always tell me when I would complain was “What did you do?” He didn’t want to hear about what they did, he wanted to know what I did. If we start living and operating in that fashion then more of us will be successful.

It’s not about what anybody else does. There are going to be people who stand in your way, try to mitigate your success, or flat out be haters. It’s not about what they do; it’s about how YOU respond. It’s not about what happened to you; it’s about what you do when things occur. When you’re doing good, anybody can have a smile on their face. But when you get knocked down, that’s when the true colors come out and you have to be tough, persevere and hold yourself accountable for your own mistakes.

I made up in my mind that my ancestors didn’t die in vain. That is the principle that I’m going to live by. People today make the decision to get mad about cotton. The idea of cotton is so tumultuous and evil for some people because it symbolizes racism or a time when Blacks were picking cotton. You can look at it that way but I believe that successful people decide to take the good out of bad situations.

My ancestors picking cotton is them putting a stamp on the development of society. Building roads. Tilling land. Although it was a bad situation for them, I’m going to decide that I’m not going to cry about the negative but utilize the positive. My ancestors put their stamp on this country and that’s something that I’m proud of. For the rest of my life I’m going to do what they couldn’t do. They had to be in the fields. They couldn’t vote.

Instead of crying and complaining and acting all “woe is me”, I’m going to go vote because they couldn’t vote. I’m going to go out and work hard because they didn’t have that opportunity. I’m going to honor the country that they fought to build. I’m going to do what I have to do to be successful. I’m going to speak the truth. Me not doing that is failing them. Me feeling sorry for myself makes all of their hard work, blood, tears, bruises, and whips pointless.

We claim we care about Martin Luther King, Jr. so then you have to start actually doing what he said. If I do not judge people by the content of their character, if I don’t progress forward and speak truth to people and do what I can to help society – even if it’s making videos – then they died in vain. Instead of crying and being “woe is me” and saying that Black people have been through so much in this country and believing that Black people have to work twice as hard as everyone else, you can change your mentality.

You can choose to feel that way and be a victim the rest of your life. I feel that if I have to work two times harder, I’m just that much better. If somebody tells me “no” then that’s just going to make me work that much harder. You’ve gotta make a decision what side of the fence you’re going to be on. Are you going to be the victim or the victor? I’m done with complaining. I’m done with feeling sorry for myself. I’m done with feeling sorry for my ancestors. I’m going to glorify them through doing positive things and making a difference. That’s what my obligation is.

Instead of complaining about the police, become the police. Instead of complaining about your legislators, become somebody in power to change something. Instead of crying about this country, take advantage of your opportunities. Once you get it in your mind that you don’t want to play the victim anymore you can start looking out of the box and start incorporating other people to help you. Start allowing other people to be in place to help you become successful no matter what their color or background is. This is what this country is built on.

Stop looking at this country as if it’s just about slavery or racism. In reality, our country has racism and it has anti-racism. When people owned slaves there were people that did not own slaves. They didn’t want slaves. There were the same amount of free states as there were slave states. Harriet Tubman who wanted to free slaves through the underground railroad had the help of other people who also wanted to free slaves.

Keep going through our history. We wanted the first African American athletes to be on the scene and to be Olympians. People fought alongside them to give them opportunities. Owners of some of these teams stepped outside of the box and said they were going to give that player an opportunity back when it wasn’t popular.

We live in a country that wants diversity. It’s not just racism and division. People are making efforts every day to combat that. For every single racist person, there’s probably 100,000 people that want this country to be better, that want to join arms with each other and make it better. We just have to start going down that path of saying “I forgive you”, “I love you”, “You’re my brother/sister”, “Whatever I did to offend you, I’m sorry”. And to whoever felt offended, remember that you offend people too, so say “I’m sorry”, “I forgive you” and then move forward together.

We cannot accomplish anything by hating each other and being mad at each other about stuff that neither one of us was a part of. Let’s take each instance and each situation and address them together. Let’s take the hardships of this country and have a real conversation about real injustices, not perceived ones. Let’s sit down at the table together and let’s go over them together as citizens and Americans who all care about a common goal. Let’s talk about racism or reverse racism.

It is not okay that people come on national television and criticize the President for giving a speech in Alabama, saying that these people are racist just because they’re white. In no way, form, or fashion is that okay. Just like it’s not okay to call Black people the N-word, it’s not okay to call white people racist just because it feels good or it’s convenient.

I want to talk to African American people for a second. I’m sick of the victim mentality rhetoric that’s being pushed from the Left and the Democratic Party. It’s not valid and it’s destroying young Black men. I used to be one of those people until I went to college and I learned something. Things were revealed to me and I realized that I had been lied to and been deceived for a long time.

The Democratic Party wants African Americans to continuously be victims. They love to glorify victimhood. They love to glorify the places in history where Black people were victims and they ONLY glorify those places. They only want Blacks to think that they’ve been oppressed since the 50’s.

They don’t want to tell you that the first Black judge was in the late 1700’s. His name is Wentworth Cheswell. Look him up. The first Black millionaire was a female – Madam C. J. Walker – in the late 1800’s. Being a millionaire back then is like being a billionaire now. They don’t want you to know that George Washington Carver – who was one of the greatest scientists ever – in the late 1800’s. They don’t want you to know about Booker T. Washington who worked in the White House in the early 1900’s.

Black people have been free since the late 1700’s in the north. There were the same amount of free states as there were slave states. Everybody talks about Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad. She wasn’t taking people to la-la-land; she was taking people to the north where Black people could be free to have their own businesses. There was still probably some level of discrimination but they had opportunities.

They want to talk to you about the slaves but they don’t talk to you about the people who helped Harriet Tubman along the route north. She had to stop at different houses along the way to keep Black people protected and give them food and water on their journey. Those are white people that helped them. What about those people?!?!

These people who want to keep you divided don’t want you to know about that. They don’t want to celebrate the white people who helped Harriet Tubman in the underground railroad. They were just as responsible for the success of the underground railroad as Harriet Tubman. She was brave enough to put her life on the line and they were brave enough to put their life on the line. I think they were just as important. They don’t want you to know your history.

I took African American studies in college. They don’t want you to know that stuff because they want you to feel like you’re a victim. Drinking out of the water fountain was a southern thing. They didn’t have that problem in the north. Segregation was at a better state in the north than it was in the south. But they only want you to remember the segregation in the south. They want you to remember the riots in the south. They don’t want to talk to you about the north.

Lebron James wanted to bring up Emmett Till which is absolutely ridiculous. Emmett Till was killed for no reason, tortured, brutalized and his mom had an open casket so the whole world could see what was happening in the south. He wouldn’t have gotten killed in the north. He was from the north. He came to visit his uncle in the south and ended up getting killed by some racists. They got off and then confessed after they got off that they did it. So Lebron wanted to bring that up and equate it with someone spray painting his $30 million dollar home.

It makes me frustrated that the Democratic Party wants to make African Americans victims. We are not victims anymore. We are victors. Are there situations of discrimination in this country? Yes! Is it going to stop you from achieving goals? No! In the 1700’s it didn’t stop us from being judges; late 1800’s it didn’t stop us from being millionaires and scientists or going to schools.

You do your history and look up the historical Black colleges. We have been able to be successful for a very long time. People working in the White House in the 1800’s and African American. Don’t let these people deceive you. There are racist people in this world, yes. It can’t stop you from being successful. A person can drop any word on you all they want but they can’t do nothing to you. You can still go to whatever school you want to. You can still get an education. They can’t stop you from studying. They can’t stop you from working hard and becoming what you wanna be.

They can’t stop people like Ben Carson. They want you to hate people like Ben Carson or like me. They want you to hate African American people who have decided that we’re not going to be the victims anymore and we’re not going to make excuses and point a finger at people. We’re going to start doing introspection or not doing inspection at all. They want you to hate us because we are going to destroy their agenda.

If Black people are successful and Black people have equal rights there will be no Democratic Party. If you don’t have to play the victim anymore there is no Democratic Party and they know that so they want you to be the victim. Some of you are going to watch this and think I’m a sellout. Listen to what I’m saying, do you research, and find out the truth because the truth is the only thing that is truly going to set you free.

Our forefathers would be rolling in their graves hearing that we’re still pointing the finger at the white man, calling each other the N-word, or saying that we don’t have the opportunities that they died for us to have. They’d be rolling in their graves when they see us not voting after they died for us to vote or if they saw our lack of pursuit of excellence. If they saw us killing each other, robbing each other, putting each other down, hating on each other, they’d be rolling in their graves.

Rolling in their graves to see us reference them out of context. When you reference Martin Luther King but you forget the fact that he said he wanted people to be judged by their character and not the color of their skin but we still point a finger at the color of their skin. These people that I mentioned – George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Madam C.J. Walker – these people would be rolling in their graves if they saw what we were doing to each other. If they saw that we got on TV and said that Black on Black crime is in the mid-90%, white on white crime is in the 80%’s.

There’s a problem here that we don’t want to address. We have to stop living as victims and start living as victors. Know your history and know the past so that you can know where you’re going. Look at George Washington Carver – don’t let nobody tell you that you can’t be a scientist, that you can’t change the world because somebody is holding you back. It doesn’t work like that. Let’s overcome these things and realize that there is racism that occurs but it has no power over you. People call you the N-word and it doesn’t have power anymore. I want us to realize that.

We’ve gotta change and realize that we’ve gotta work together. We’ve been working together in the past. Not every white person was a slave owner. How do you think we made it this far? Not only Black people fought in the Civil War.

Anti-White Rhetoric

America’s anti-police, anti-white rhetoric needs to come to an end. The other day, my son got a notification on his Madden game talking about Black Lives Matter and the oppression of Black people. And then one of my white friends showed me a public statement on the Strava cycling app, apologizing for being a racist organization in the past.

The oppression of Black Americans is just an unverified opinion held by some, yet it’s pushed on young people. Why do Black people need special treatment and handouts? Why are we worried more about Black athletes? I’m sick of the pandering. I’m sick of the false equivalence. I’m sick of people painting a picture where I am less than others in my own country.

All Lives Matter

This country is as much mine as it is yours. While I have never personally experienced racism in America, that doesn’t mean that other people haven’t. I won’t walk around with my head down with a victim mentality or allow someone to force an idea on me just because of the color of my skin.

None of the people that I know are racist. I have a lot of friends who are white. It’s not fair that I can talk about my opinions about the American flag and I can give a statement about how ridiculous the Black Lives Matter organization is but my white friends don’t have that same right. This is America where you have freedom of speech.

If you say All Lives Matter – which includes Black lives – you get fired. Sacramento Kings broadcaster Grant Napear was fired after tweeting ALL LIVES MATTER. You are not going to accomplish the goal that you want if you are doing it with hatred and vitriol or with the idea that you are going to force people to kneel and bow down to you for the sins of their ancestors.

Protests Kill More Black People

George Floyd was an extreme criminal who was arrested and sentenced to jail nine times. He planned a home invasion where he pistol whipped a pregnant woman and he was high on meth and fentanyl as he resisted arrest at the time of his death. Does that mean he deserved to die? No, it doesn’t. The police officers in his case should be held accountable for their actions.

Protestors defending Mr. Floyd’s “honor” by giving him 3 funerals on live television while Black people riot and kill 9 more Black people makes no sense! Black protestors destroyed millions of dollars worth of property owned by Black people. A young Black man murdered retired St. Louis police Captain David Dorn – also Black –  who had 38 years of service in his Black community. He was released on probation which he violated twice. A career criminal kills an upstanding Black man and everyone stays quiet!

Hypocrisy Across America

There are 44 million Black people in this country. More than 7,000 Black people were killed by other Black people in 2019.  Black people are dying because people don’t know how to handle their anger and nobody’s being held accountable. Chicago, Illinois is known as the war zone of the United States. 83% of the homicides in Chicago are unsolved. In 2019, 192 Black people were murdered in Chicago and not a single murder was by police. Police shot a total of 9 unarmed Black people in 2019. Hundreds of thousands of Black people have died from heart disease and other ailments yet you claim you care about Black lives.

Taking Accountability

Stop voting for politicians who implement policies that destroy your community. All of the cities that are riddled with crime, mass deaths, mass incarceration, and police misconduct are in Democratic-run cities and states, some of which are run by all Black people.

Secondly, hold yourself accountable. Make sure you take care of your responsibilities. Nobody told you to sleep around and not protect yourself. Stop putting yourself in situations where you’ll end up with a kid and no job. If you’re a woman, stop having babies with men who are in and out of prison and telling yourself he’ll change.

Stop blaming everybody else for the decisions you make. Nobody told you to smoke weed. Nobody told you to disobey your mom and your grandma when they were telling you to get an education. That’s on you. White men didn’t force you to do any of that.

Don’t go around projecting racism on other people. Every time you see a white person you question whether they’re mad at you or not. Focus on succeeding. Concern yourself with how you’re going to dominate. As a Black man in America, I’m winning because I’m not sitting around worried about white people. I’m not trying to guess who’s racist and who’s not.

Invest in Your Community

80% of NFL football players go bankrupt and most of them are Black. Why is that? It’s culture. If this country is so racist then why do African immigrants do much better than Black Americans who were born and raised here? While you’re worried about LeBron James and how many 3-pointers he’s shooting, other people are worried about how to start businesses and build economic wealth. You can’t tell me anything about the stock market, investing, or the last book you read but you can tell me who’s in the final four, who’s going to the Super Bowl, and all the stats of every NBA, NFL, and MLB player.

Build up your community. All these football players out here talking about the oppression of black and brown bodies, taking a knee and protesting when you could pool your money together to open a Black-owned bank or purchase investment properties that will generate wealth for you and your family members. But instead you want to buy a Bentley or gold chains and get mad at the system.

Know Your History

White liberals need to stop telling me who I am and what my experiences have been in America. Just because one Black person experienced oppression doesn’t mean every Black person does. We’re individuals and we should be treated as such. Just because one black person commits a crime doesn’t mean we are all criminals. Just because one police officer does a bad thing doesn’t mean all police officers are bad. You’ve gotta operate on individuality. You are individually responsible for your future. It’s very simple.

This country was founded on good principles in good faith and some of you don’t even know the history of this country. This country wasn’t founded on racism. Slavery was all over the world. It was opportunistic. It was legal slave trade. Do you know how slaves came about? They were enslaved in Africa first. So if you want your reparations go to Africa and ask them why they put you in chains and sold you to the white people. Black people owned slaves too in this country. The first legal slave owner was a Black man, Anthony Johnson, in the 1600’s. Every black person wasn’t a slave. There were indigent servants in the north and in the south slavery was legal.

We have built this country together, we have overcome adversity, of barbaric principles that we now look back on and criticize. We’re the freest place on earth. All of us work together. There are no laws against Black people. There is no law that applies to Black people and white people differently. As a matter of fact, if you discriminate against somebody criminally, that’s a hate crime. We need to come together, we need to start focusing on individuality, we need to try to better our country in the ways that we can.  And make this country better than it was yesterday.

Here we go again with another man transitioning to female and killing these women in sports. Here’s some context before I get to my main point; for 25 years of his life, Callum was a man standing at 6ft. 2 inches and weighing 220 lbs. A man the same size as myself decided to become female and changed his name to Hannah. Hannah decided against gender reassignment surgery and all other types of surgeries to make him look more feminine; he also is still attracted to women.

Where do we draw the line between people who want to transition because they want to be women and those who do it because there’s some sort of advantage for them to do so? Now Hannah is playing on a female rugby team and is two to three times larger than the women he’s playing against. That would be like me going to play pee wee football! The controversy behind all of this is that the Australian women’s rugby league didn’t want to allow him to play against women because he has a physical advantage over them.

People always use the scientific argument that when a man takes hormones he loses a certain percentage of strength. On the other hand, I would argue that Hannah spent 25 years of life as a man with testosterone flowing through his body; even after losing some strength, he’s still probably 20 times stronger than the women he plays with. I also discovered that the hormones do not affect the strength of your legs; that’s why transgender cyclists are still killing it!

It’s not fair for men to be playing in female sports. Just because you identify as a woman doesn’t mean you are biologically the same as other women because they have always been women and they have always been at a physical disadvantage against men. This is a women’s rights issue. Feminists should be jumping all over this because these men, whether they truly feel this way or they’re playing the system, are literally taking women out of sports.

They are smashing and destroying their records. Women do not have any place in their own sport anymore because of men. Women have been fighting for rights and good men acknowledge that women deserve to have an equal opportunity to compete in their own sports. If we don’t put this to an end, women’s sports will be destroyed forever.

This video was one of the most bizarre videos I’ve ever seen in my life and there are some people who should be held accountable for allowing this 11 year-old child to produce this video in the first place. First, this little girl claims that we’re stuck in 1920 fighting for our lives and then she claims that white people hate Black people; but I’d really like to know, who hates Black people more? Is it white people or other Black people?

You show me a Black person running from the police and claim he’s an innocent Black person. Resisting arrest and running with guns does not make you innocent. You have a higher chance of being killed in a drive-by in Chicago than you do dealing with police officers. If you’ve done something wrong then don’t resist arrest!

Then she makes a reference to Breonna Taylor, asking how she’s going to feel safe in her own home when the police target Black people for suspicious behavior. They’re brainwashing these kids. Breonna was knee-deep in drug deals gone bad since 2016. They had a warrant for her arrest and the judge gave the police officers a no-knock exception, which they didn’t use.

They’re still talking about black hoodies in reference to Trayvon Martin. The man that killed him was Mexican and had no relation to police officers. This little girl in the video makes it sound like everybody’s scared of Black men. Yeah, your dad scares me if he’s selling dope! If he’s like me, a nice and responsible man who’s not committing crimes, then he’s not scary.

George Floyd was high on meth and fentanyl, resisted arrest, and attempted to buy something with counterfeit money. He died because of a lethal dose of drugs. I also believe he experienced excited delirium. Tamir Rice took the orange tip-off of a fake gun to make it look real and then proceeded to chase people in the park with what looked to be a real gun. When the police stopped him, he pulled the gun on them and was shot.

Ahmaud Arbery had nothing to do with the police; he broke into somebody’s house armed with a gun. Michael Brown wouldn’t get out of the middle of the street and tried to fight a police officer for his gun. He beat the police officer so he got shot. Eric Garner was arrested over 40 times; he was fat, out of shape, and resisted arrest. He went into cardiac arrest and died later at the hospital. Walter Scott owed $40,000 on child support, he fought the cop and the cop shot him.

Jacob Blake was wanted for assaulting a woman sexually; he was not an upstanding citizen. When police arrived, he fought police officers, holding one in a headlock. They tried to tase him multiple times before he mentioned having a knife; when he went to his car he was shot. Now he’s paralyzed and lucky he’s alive. Sean Reed was on Facebook live doing drive-by shootings and high-speed pursuits where he pulled a gun on police officers.

If you want respect, Black people should respect themselves first before you start pointing your finger at white people. If you respect yourself then you wouldn’t be at the abortion clinic more than any other race per capita. If you respect yourself, Black on Black violence wouldn’t be perpetuated in inner-cities. If you really respected yourself you wouldn’t commit so many crimes and go to prison. Two percent of the Black males in Black communities commit more than half of the violent crimes in the US.

If you believe the same thing as this 11 year-old then you’ll never be anything in America because you’re always going to live with hate and falsehoods. You’ll never achieve something meaningful in life because you’ve got this fear of white people and a fear of success when you’re living in a country that makes Black billionaires on a day-to-day basis.

Here’s the thing about protesting and taking a knee on the flag. For those of you who don’t understand, let me clarify it for you. It’s not about the act of protesting or believing in something and pursuing it; it’s the way you’re doing it. What does the American flag have to do with your perceived oppression? What does the national anthem have to do with the issues people are bringing up? The national anthem is full of hope and unity in a country that has made poor people rich and given everyone opportunities. The flag represents the sacrifice, hard work, dedication, blood, sweat, and tears of our ancestors.

What makes me the most upset are the people who take a knee and want to attribute all of the negativity to the flag and the anthem but don’t want to acknowledge anything positive. If you feel the American flag represents slavery then you also need to give credit to that same flag that has given you the opportunity to go from corn fields picking cotton to being the President of the United States of America or from being segregated and not being able to vote to making millions of dollars playing sports.

Martin Luther King, Jr. had bipartisan support from people both inside and outside of the civil rights movement because he behaved with respect and integrity and had a mission with tangible, achievable goals. These clowns today are protesting because it’s become trendy. The issues they’re talking about have nothing to do with the flag. You can address those issues in another way. If you really care about Black lives you don’t need to take a knee; you need to be active in the Black community. If you care about oppression and laws then you need to go out and vote. Do something about it instead of protesting, crying like a baby, and pissing people off!

What’s happened since Colin Kaepernick first took a knee? Has unemployment changed in the Black community? Has Black on Black crime changed? Have the police stopped shooting Black people? Has the abortion rate dropped? Has recidivism changed? Did dropout rates change? Are there more entrepreneurs, opportunities, and jobs? Nothing has changed and nothing will change unless you actually do something about it.

As an African American man in this country the flag means a lot to me. Even if I don’t like the president, I will still honor the flag because of all the people who fought so I could be free. Just because you play in the NFL doesn’t make you an expert about anything in life; in fact, you have no idea what you’re talking about because all you do is play a game and go home. The people who died for that flag weren’t playing a game.

Remember who pays your salary; you’re not making money just because you’re a good athlete but because the fans pay money to sit in those seats and watch you play. You could be irrelevant tomorrow. Don’t disrespect America just to play a sport.

I grew up in an all Black community but I had a diverse upbringing because my parents worked hard to live in better neighborhoods and send us to better schools. My brother and I graduated from a high school right in the middle of the hood. I was arrested at 8 years-old for smoking marijuana; I was jumped into a gang by my cousins when we were 9 or 10. Following the path that God had for me in life is what really changed me from being a liberal Democrat to a conservative Republican.

I went to college at the University of Arizona as an All American football player and also the top safety in the nation. Things didn’t work out for me in Arizona. I was saved in 2008 and that had a tremendous effect on my life. I used to have gold teeth, walking around with my pants sagging, and I had a terrible attitude; but God changed me. At the time, I still believed that Democrats were for the Black people and Republicans were racist white people.

I became a police officer after the 2010 NFL draft didn’t go the way I wanted it to. At the same time, my son was born so I needed to make a grown-man decision so I could get benefits and support my child. I got a call back and did a ride-along that blew my mind because I realized that police officers are true heroes. I used to think football players were heroes, but they don’t have anything on being a police officer!

Almost everybody in the police department was conservative, except for some Black people. We used to debate all day long about Barack Obama and Democrats vs. Republicans. I used to stand up for Obama because I was convinced and ignorant but after Obama started verbally trashing police officers, I couldn’t support him anymore. Everyone was out to get us, especially Black people. We were being targeted and people were questioning our work so I decided I would never again support a politician who didn’t respect the men and women in uniform.

I started looking at the Republican party right before the 2016 election and I thought Donald Trump was a joke. Ben Carson was my man! After he dropped out and endorsed Trump there was a rally I attended in Tucson, Arizona so that I could find out what he was really all about. It ended up being that the protestors were crazy, deranged lunatics while the Trump supporters were good, God-fearing positive people of all faiths.

Ever since then, conservatism has been a way of life for me. We don’t protest against other people; we protest for our values. Being a Democrat I was forced out of this country and treated as if it belonged to the white man and I was just visiting. I am a part of the American dream and a part of American history. This country belongs to me too. Conservatism opened my mind to entrepreneurship and giving back to others; it’s called conscious capitalism.

I’ve been so inspired to be an American by President Trump and other conservatives. I’ve never been so inspired in my life; I feel like I can achieve anything and I want to help everybody that I can reach to pull them out of the brainwashed mentality of the Democratic party. That’s why I do what I do, speaking around the country because I believe in it. I believe in spreading the American dream to every single person, so that everyone can live the best version of their life.