An Open Letter to Mr. Kaepernick

Dear Mr. Kaepernick (and others in the NFL)

How dare you exercise your first amendment rights in a peaceful manner. If you want to continue your protest of the unfair, unjust, and uncivilized treatment of minorities in this country, you need to take it to the streets (just not my street, it is quiet and idyllic, and needs to remain that way). We need to see looting, riots, and confrontations with authority. This passivity of not standing or kneeling during the playing of a symbolic song is unpatriotic. Millions of true patriots have placed flags outside their houses, put stickers on their cars (I support the troops), and expressed outrage at their government (thanks Obama), so you have no right to protest what they have built with the jingoism they have expressed (god bless America).

If you want to be a real patriot, you need to take note of the actions of real Americans like the Bundys. They have taken government subsidies, used government land for their own personal ends, taken up arms against a tyrannical government, and taken over government property in their protest. That is how true loyalists operate.

Mr. Kaepernick, your non-aggressive sissy approach is just not the American way of doing things. Man up and physically get into someone's face, the least you could do is make hate speeches against certain sects of people in an attempt to make this country great again.

So stop making us feel uncomfortable when we try and relax and take in some football, no one deserves to feel unsafe or threatened in any way, no matter what team we are on or root for....

Sarcastically yours,
Herbert Bush