Articles:

Super Bowl ratings 2021: Numbers for Buccaneers-Chiefs plummet from last year
https://nypost.com/2021/02/09/super-bowl-ratings-2021-numbers-plummet-from-last-year/
WATCH: Super Bowl LV Kicks Off with ‘Black National Anthem’
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/02/07/watch-super-bowl-lv-kicks-off-black-national-anthem/

My Commentary:

Football became the new American pastime, because it was a glorious opportunity for every American to come together and watch our modern gladiators fight for dominance. It was an opportunity to leave aside all the disagreements of politics. The Super Bowl used to be one of the most patriotic events imaginable with huge American flags, a beautifully sung National Anthem, flyovers by our pilots, people drinking beer, eating hot dogs, and cheering together etc. Now, much of that still takes place, but with a sickly undertone of wokeness and racism (but I repeat myself).

The NFL betrayed America when it allowed players to kneel during our national anthem. Worse than that, the NFL commissioner came out in support of the Black Lives Matter narrative during the rioting of 2020. The league has also had the so-called “Black National Anthem” played at games, including this year’s Super Bowl.

Some might say “how hypocritical of you to support the patriotic messaging but be against the free speech of players when they want to put forward the Black Lives Matter messaging.” To that I have a simple response. One of those messages is good and true, while the other is false and insidious. Black lives do not matter. I will say it again, BLACK LIVES DO NOT MATTER. WHITE LIVES DO NOT MATTER either, because there is no such thing as a black or white life. The true conservative message cuts through the BLM lie like a super-heated steak knife through butter. We are all unique, beautiful creations made in God’s image with inherent dignity, worth and rights. To even say “black lives matter” is to make the horrible, offensive assumption that we did not already believe that our black American brothers and sisters are also made in God’s image. Of course, they are. To play a “black national anthem” is to tear asunder the fellowship and comradery that should come from a shared belief in true American, western Judeo-Christian values that built this nation and allowed these players to get paid millions of dollars to play a game. There is just one National Anthem and it is the anthem of black Americans, and Americans of every color and kind. To embrace the “cause” of BLM is to accuse every American who is not themselves fooled by the racism and fascism of wokeness as being racist themselves.

No one in America watched the video of George Floyd and thought “oh that’s fine, nothing to see there, nothing tragic about it at all.” If you want to fight against police brutality, then show me the individual instances of brutality by potentially bad cops and I will support you. What I will not do is accept your unfounded and unevidenced narrative that policing in general is racist, that black people are killed without cause all the time by cops who regard them as cattle, that police officers themselves are evil, or that it would somehow be a good societal change if we defunded police departments. The thinking that says that policing and police officers are evil and racist because there may be bad apples is the EXACT SAME logic used by the K.K.K. to conclude that an entire race of people is somehow inferior and deserves less rights and differential treatment.

The “fix” or the “cure” for this thinking, for this rift forming in our nation, is the same as it has always been. It is the same, consistent, conservative ideal that began the declaration of independence, and that has been progressively more perfectly realized by the nation that resulted from it. All men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. This is true no matter the color of someone’s skin or their ethnic background. A truly post-racial society, where each person is properly regarded and valued by their humanity, their merit, and their achievements, is the natural destination of this philosophy. That thinking, and that vision, is truly joyful, so much brighter than the revenge racism of BLM and leftism. Let us defeat this woke racism and the organizations that propagandize on its behalf by allowing the NFL to fail, and perhaps be replaced by something better.