Wife of American sniper Chris Kyle just issued a major challenge to NFL-every player should read this
Taya Kyle, the widow of legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, issued a bold challenge to the NFL via Facebook on Tuesday in response to the national anthem protests sweeping the league.
Like many other NFL fans, she is tired of seeing the sport focus on “division and anger” instead of the message of unity that it once represented. She is now calling on the NFL to make a real difference in America and urging its players to “get off your knees” to get it done.
We are presenting Kyle's entire letter to the NFL without commentary. We recommend reading every word:
Dear NFL,
You were doing your part to bring people together and heal the world. That's really how healing works. We heal by loving each other and leading by example; showing people what is possible when we love each other just as we are and not only recognize our differences but celebrate them and look at how we can use them together to make us jointly better than our separate parts. You were doing your part celebrating each other based on skills, talent and a joint vision without regard to color and religion.
You were doing your part and we were doing ours. We showed up cheering and groaning together to [sic] as one. We talked in the concession lines and commiserated and celebrated our team together. Did it ever occur to you that you and we were already a mix of backgrounds, races and religions? We were already living the dream you want, right in front of you.
Your desire to focus on division and anger has shattered what many people loved most about the sport. Football was really a metaphor for our ideal world –different backgrounds, talents, and histories actually made us one big team with one big goal - to do well, to win, TOGETHER.
You are asking us to abandon what we loved about togetherness and make choices of division. Will we stand with you? Will we stand with our flag? What does it mean? What does it mean if we buy a ticket or NFL gear? What does it mean if we don't? It is the polar opposite of the easy togetherness we once loved in football.
It was simple – we loved you and you loved us – with all of our races, religions and different backgrounds. Simplicity in a crazy world was pretty awesome.
You dear NFL, have taken that. You have lost me here.
If you ever want to get off your knees and get to work on building bridges, let me know. I have found screaming about the problems in service marriages or even standing in silence in front of them, hasn't healed even one of them. On the other hand, funding the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation, building a team and rolling up my sleeves to get in the trenches during my “off time” -volunteering there outside of my paying jobs - has proven to make real change.
You have a lot of strong guys, I am sure in the off season a lot of them could build some pretty big bridges if they care enough to do the hard work. That would involve getting off their knees and getting to work though. I can do it while I raise two kids as their only parent and work through the greatest pain of my life, let's see if they can do it for the issues they say they care so much about.
Go Longhorns and Sic 'Em …
Sincerely,
Taya
Chris Kyle and his friend, Chad Littlefield, were fatally shot and killed in 2013. Taya Kyle now raises their two children as a single parent.
To say she understands the incredible sacrifice America's service members make when they put on the uniform would be an understatement.
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Good job Tara. Hit the nail on the head! Get off your Knees/asses and MAKE a difference!
And who says they are not doing this? Who says that giving the money to fund those projects she goes out to do isn't just as important?
Gee I haven't been able to find the stories on how the kneeling millionaires are donating time and money to the cause maybe you can help by posting some.
No problem
Colin Kaepernick donated 1 million dollars to various charities
Ndamukong Suh - donated 2.6 million dollars to the state of Nebraska as well as 250K to his high school as well as starting the Ndamukong Suh Family Foundation helping kids with school supplies and staying in school
Brandon Marshall created Project Boderline Foundation which helps those who suffer from illnesses particularly mental health
Michael Bennett created the Bennett Foundation has donated all the endorsement money he received in 2017 and 50% of his proceeds from his jersey sales to help minority communities, empowering women of color and inner city garden projects, not to mention contributing 25K to Hurricane Harvery relief
Eric Reid helped create a sholarship fund will Ronnie Lott the REACH Youth Scholarship Award
I see a whole lot more that 5 kneeling but hey at least a very small minority of them actually care enough about it to use their wealth, power and celebrity status to actually further the cause. I think the point Tara is trying to make is that there should be more of them. Like maybe everyone that took a knee.
You didn't ask to list every one you just said some
Those were just the ones I'm familiar with......You cant move the goalpost just because you don't like the outcome
Let me second that - good job Tara, hopefully they might hear that, but I doubt it. After all they just play football.
What can we expect ?
Evidently Ms Kyle is confused in regard to the ideals that Mr Kyle supposedly fought to preserve.
And what would that be Tex?
A Free Society would be first on my list. Secondly that protest and resistance is about as American as apple pie.
She also seems to be clueless as to the reasons behind the knee taking.
For all the blather Americans raise in regard to freedom and liberty it has come to my attention that folks here seem to have neither the balls nor the clits for it.
best at you
Char togar m'fhearg gun dioladh
Here's a question for you Tex. If a player came on the field waving this:
Would you still support his rights? Does he have a First Amendment right to wave that? I mean, that's what all this argument is about right? One side says these players have a First Amendment right to protest, even if the method is offensive, and the other side says the protest is misplaced and offensive to America. So would you support a player's right to wave this flag in protest?
My question is....why don't you feel as that waving that around isn't as much a disrespect as kneeling during the national anthem?
I asked first. Would you support a player's First Amendment Right to wave the Confederate Battle Flag in protest?
I'm a southerner. A shyte bucket of my kin fought under that banner. I've got no problem with it. We ended up fighting for a really bad cause. A whole bunch of us were/are Celts. Historically speaking, fucking and fighting have been our things.
In fact, the stars and bars have absolutely nothing on the stars and stripes wherein slavery, oppression, genocide, and various other niceties are concerned. So, waving the stars and stripes is more or less the same. Our assholes lost though and their assholes won. Consequently, there's is faultless and noble. Ours depraved and treasonous.
That being said, nope. Wave whatever flag you wish. They are rags.
In fact:
best atcha
Man Holding Confederate Flag Beer Koozie Finds NFL Protests Disrespectful To Flag
A man from Wetumpka, Alabama, holding a Confederate flag beer Koozie, announced this week that he finds NFL flag protests “Extremely disrespectful.”
Jake Buxton, 42, shook his head and looked into his beer, stating, “These thugs who refuse to stand during the national anthem are acting like God damn children – don’t they know what their military fights for?” Buxton then took a sip from his Limited Edition Bud Light American Flag can.
Buxton – who has been wearing the same skidmarked American Flag boxers for the past three days – says he is outraged at what he feels is the “Total and blatant disregard for one of the most precious symbols to the greatest Nation on Earth.”
He notes that the American Flag “Is meant to be revered and respected, which is why I have a Donald Trump Thank You Tour stars and stripes sticker on the bumper of my Ram 1500 right now.”
When asked if he is going to continue supporting the NFL, Buxton replied, “I’m done with that circus. These clowns are too stupid to find a way to peacefully protest, and Roger ‘Snowflake’ Gooddell won’t nut up and fire them?” Presumably, Buxton was speaking of many NFL players decision to silently take a knee during the National Anthem, before continuing to play an uninterrupted game of Football as per usual.
Though Buxton owns 19 different pieces of Confederate memorabilia, he thinks the anger surrounding the controversial symbol is unfounded. “Anyone who thinks I don’t have the right to express myself and feelings about my country is a complete and total idiot who needs to read our constitution.”
Buxton says he will continue boycotting the NFL until the players who choose to protest using their First Amendment rights are either fired or suspended.
As of press time, he had updated his Facebook profile picture to an image of Uncle Sam bending the Statue of Liberty over Ellis Island from behind.
for anyone getting hyperventilated, it is satire btw.
So, in essence, what she are saying is that commerce Trumps (har! get it?) the right to protest and that we as the resistance should choose government sanctioned and approved spots to protest lest it be heard by the masses.
Yeah, well, that's a crock of it. As it were.
best your way
Also, would you support my right to fly this flag on the field?
Actually, The obvious point she is trying to make is that by the Players choice of how/where to protest they have turned a once unifying force into one of opposition. Saying you made a bad choice of where and how to protest is in no way, shape, or form, even REMOTELY like saying you should only protest in government sanctioned areas, but feel free to spin away and continue baseless assumptions.
Sure it would....now I answered yours
Your turn....why do you feel as though waving that flag isn't just as disrespectful, if not more, as kneeling during the national anthem?
All due respect but that is just too convoluted to comprehend. So, she does believe in protest, just not when it is a divisive source? She believes in protest just not in the NFL? She believes the NFL is a unifying force for race relations?
I don't know. Bear Bryant pretty much altered the face of SEC football by setting up a scenario wherein they would be fools not to recruit and allow athletes of color on the field. A ton of folks attend games and sit next to each other. That does not mean that half of em aren't still virulent racists. I can testify to that. My guess is that the fans of the NFL are not different. I guess surface and shallow tolerance is better than nothing.
So, where do you believe she would be comfortable with a refusal to participate in the anthem? The pledge? and so on and so forth and such.
Really, not sure what your point is.
anyhow, best atcha
The other point she was trying to make is that if they really care they would use their wealth and celebrity status and time to do more than a symbolic gesture of "taking a knee", and precious few have. (4 or 5 maybe?) Is that too convoluted to understand?
World War II vet, 97, takes a knee in support of anthem protests
On a day when NFL teams grabbed the nation’s attention by coordinating demonstrations during the national anthem , a 97-year-old World War II veteran went viral with a solitary show of support for the protests ... members of the military while deployed ...
Yeah......it's officially been hijacked.....smh
YOU are talking about the RIGHT to protest John, which I agree with. She is talking about using the NFL which in the past was used to unify people as a sounding board for their opinion and and turning it from a unifying force to a controversy. Two totally different things why can't you seem to separate them?
IMO kneeling isn't disrespecting the flag at all nor those that fought in those wars. Those that fought for the U.S. in many of it's wars were fighting to defend the constitution which includes the amendments. In this case the 1st amendment.
You can't have it both ways. Support the 1st when it fits your view and not supporting it when it doesn't fit your views.
Last night on a TV program a buddy of Pat Tillman that served and fought with him was asked what he thought Pat would think of this. He said that Pat may have not like it but would have defended their right to express their views.
IMO, the 1st amendment is one of the bedrocks of our liberty.
The whole point of the protest is too disrespect the flag and the country. Ask Kaepernick.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
There's a reason he chose the national anthem as the time to make his protest and not the coin toss or half time etc.etc..
Ummm ... you just contradicted yourself.
First this:
The whole point of the protest is too disrespect the flag and the country.
Then this?
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
I think he made it perfectly clear what the point was.
No, I didn't
According to Kaepernick, standing up for anthem means showing pride in the country and flag, kneeling down is done to demonstrate the opposite. You are focusing on the reason he wants to disrespect the the flag and the country. That the act of kneeling itself is an anti-american Statement is implicit in the statement he made.
It's a statement about the unchanging status of black people and law enforcement in America. I suppose Hitler expected his citizens to show pride in their country too - that doesn't mean that pride was due.
The point is that the whole intent behind choosing the method of protest was to disrespect the flag and the country it stands for.
They have the right to protest, and people have the right to protest their protest.
He and his peers are in a unique position to make a statement and an impact. Protesting at the coin toss would be squandering that opportunity, and would have no connection to anything but a coin flip. I suppose he could have parodied the coin toss as the deciding factor in whether a black kid gets to live or die when a cop shows up on the scene.
Of course, it is to respect our Country.....why else would they do it?
If they were kneeling in respect that would be one thing, but they are NOT.
I didn't get off a damn cabbage truck to know that!
I had to frame this. Thanks for the laugh.
Love it!
The First Amendment is one of the bedrocks of our liberty.
Criticizing people for kneeling is an excellent use of first amendment rights.
And protesting is also their right. So protest the protest Sean.
Chris Kyle wasn't exactly the spokesperson for common sense, I imagine his wife is of a similar mind. He'd most likely be here today to give his own opinion, had he not started the take a PTSD victim to the gun range club.
What's the definition of trolling?
It's when you make shit up that isn't true, and then present it as true just to make people lose their shit. Unfortunately for you, this wasn't trolling.
Correction:
I think smearing a national hero & his wife fits the defenition.
Why cant you address or defend an argument?
Chris Kyle thought it would make sense to take PTSD sufferers to the gun range as therapy. That is a fact. It is not inflammatory, nor is it inappropriate to mention it, as it did get himself and a friend shot dead. If you want to follow the Chris Kyle manual for how to achieve greatness, go for it - but I wouldn't advise it.
Incidentally, if you research the history of trolling, you would see that I am right. It was an art form at one time on usenet, where it originated.
Wrong - Veterans Chris Kyle and Eddie Ray Routh were not at a shooting range as part of exposure therapy on the day Routh killed Kyle .
Not only were you wrong about that but you framed it this way:
Chris Kyle wasn't exactly the spokesperson for common sense, I imagine his wife is of a similar mind.
Don't try and tell us that you were'nt trying to say that he and his wife had no common sense - that's what you did
Kyle was a man of great courage. People like me have it easy. All I ever had to do was talk down cowards, who ran to Canada when they lost their college deferment, or their offspring, or the progressives
Lol. Where did I say "exposure therapy"? All you link does is confirm my comment. Chris Kyle was no formal therapist practicing formal therapy techniques - that is as obvious as the color of his skin. He was an armchair 'therapist' / gun nut who believed taking PTSD sufferers, that he didn't even personally know, to the gun range as armchair 'therapy' to 'treat' their PTSD. Don't tell me I don't know about Chris Kyle, please. I knew much about him before he even met that bullet.
And yet you voted for and continually support a draft dodging cowardly scumbag. You are unfuckingreal.
The national anthem?
My Father was a police officer for over 15 years, back at a time when the police officers would police themselves. When they saw or heard of an officer who was abusing their position as a police officer they would make sure that person was given notice to either ship up or ship out. It was not the desire to have the police made to look like the enemy of the people. What they did in their off time was on themselves, but, when they were in uniform they were part of a 'team', and the entire team did not want to be tainted by the actions of one member.
However, over the years things changed, and that seems to no longer come into play. And it is still a shame that the actions of some officers taints the image of the entire police officers in general.
One rotten apple spoils the bunch. Aint;t that life?
I wouldn't want to be one day without the police enforcement.
My Father left the police force when he was selected by the Texas Rangers for special undercover assignment. He was a sharp shooter and fast cross draw expert. He was with them for 3 years. They had very strict rules and anyone who broke them faced very serious punishment. The assignment he was on was also working with the Feds, so the punishment would be even worse.
Quite an honor, Raven. I know you are proud and you should be!
Thank you. My Father joined the police force right after he was discharged from the Army after WWII. He was many things in his lifetime, but, most of all, he was the best Father anyone could ask for. And ye, I was/am very proud of him. (smile)
A Ranger? Dang. A Tip O The Stetson toward Your Paw.
Thank you, Tex. He always said that being a Texas Ranger, outside of serving his country, was the proudest moments of his long life. I know he would truly appreciate your kind words. (smile)