Last week driving home from a church meeting, I suppose I was not traveling fast enough for the fella-driver behind me because he passed me, honked and gave me the finger. I wondered, what's your problem? Later that evening I was watching the World Series baseball game when a Houston player made a racist gesture towards a Los Angeles pitcher of Asian heritage by contorting his own eyes at a 'slanting' position. Again, I wondered, what's your problem?
Throughout my intense sports participation-coaching journey, I've noticed the 'athlete posturing' traverse from projecting gracious sportsmanship humility to obnoxious bravado-taunting. It's no longer good enough to be victorious but we now must sooth some inner need to ease a deep angry disposition by humiliating those we defeated and 'flipping-off' other motorists.
Physical encounters by adults have been reported at youth sporting events and fan behavior at sporting events is deteriorating. Examples: (1) a Catholic high school student section chants at their opponent, which is largely comprised of Jewish students, "You killed Jesus, You killed Jesus; (2) a suburban high school student body chants at the inner-city opponent, "Food Stamps, Food Stamps; (3) another school playing a high school with many Asian and Hispanic students begin chanting, "Donald Trump, Build That Wall; Donald Trump, Build That Wall."
And we Americans get our noses out of joint debating a protest gesture by Pro-athletes who peacefully kneel during our National Anthem??? We need a revisit to those Judea-Christian values we often pontificate. We surely are a phony group!
And amidst it all, the President of the 'United' States fails to denounce or call out a foreign adversary for attacking our 'free democracy' or denounce bigoted 'White Nationalist' and neo-Nazis demonstrating in our nation's streets. Instead of embracing with uplifting dialogue, this Leader of the 'free world' engages in some of the most hateful and divisive rhetoric in history.
We need and we must call upon our better Angels.
(Touch)Calling All Angels
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