Take a knee for the NFL

To me, this is a real disappointment. Patrick Mahomes, star of the Kansas City Chiefs,  has successfully come across to most Kansas Citians as just a “nice young man’…so modest and unassuming while becoming, possibly, one of the game’s greatest.

I can’t really mention my disgust with this guy with close neighbors or associates around here. Few, if any, knows the stuff about Mahomes herein. They don’t read the KC Star and local TV news says nothing about Mahomes’ affection for Colin Kaepernick , the BLM, or communism. Only his ‘niceness’ and football exploits are mentioned. Also, there’s never a reference in a televised game of any “anti-anthem/flag” antics on the sidelines by players.

But this bullshit poster does it for me.  (commentary continued below)

Above is a photo of one of the rooms in the new Mahomes home. It is from a typical puff piece in the Kansas City Star about the talented player. In what appears to be the master bathroom there is a prominent display of …of…”Is that VLADIMIR LENIN”!

“But, dlh how do you know it’s Lenin?    Well, it ain’t Abe Lincoln!

Maybe they were out of Che Guevara posters!

Why would Patrick Mahomes grace his new home with a Poster Photo of LENIN? (Why would any American, raised and ‘educated’ in this country, a multi-millionaire because of his talents and personal commitment, idolized by his fellow Americans, a beneficiary of all this nation offers in freedom, prosperity, and reward for hard work, pay tribute to a founder of the most oppressive, cruelest political and economic system in world history?

But everybody in Kansas City “loves” Patrick Mahomes.

The Kansas City Chiefs outstanding quarterback who led his team to a Super Bowl championship in 2020 and continues in 2020 to rack up impressive performances for the team that has wrapped up its division championship with a 14-1 regular season record and appears on track to win its second consecutive Super Bowl!

In addition to being an outstanding athlete, Patrick Mahomes comes across as a personable, self effacing young man any parent would love to call a son, or son-in-law…a true, in every way, “All-American boy”!

Having just re-signed with the Chiefs this year the most lucrative player contract…a half-billion $… in NFL history, Mahomes has advertising arrangements with about every well-known business in the KC area.

The son of a rightly proud white mother and a black father, himself a former MLB pitcher, Patrick Mahomes is unarguably the most popular public figure in the greater KC area.

And, this past week, Mahomes’ and his long-time girl friend’s new $2 million home in Overland Park, KS. was showcased in major magazines and newspapers throughout America.

A beautiful home for the two who are expecting a baby in the near future, newspapers and magazines throughout the country have featured a photo tour of all the various rooms, presumably, to reflect “the new owners’ decorating taste and talent”.

Perhaps, though, this bit of publicity for the star quarterback revealed a little more than intended.

Just maybe this “personable, clean-cut, unassuming “all-American lad” is really just one more naive, gullible, easily manipulated product of America’s leftist-corrupted education and media apparatus.

Up to now, most in the KC area, except the dwindling few who still subscribe to the Kansas City Star,* ( a “news”paper that deservedly is not likely to be around much longer) knew little about Patrick Mahomes other than his superb athletic skills and exploits and his warm, modest, appealing public persona. His “activism”, otherwise, was not widely reported in local media.

Like all of us there’s more to one than outward appearances or, if you’re famous, managed P.R. and press releases.

Mahomes has been cited as a Sports Illustrated ‘sports person of the year,’along with other luminaries of the left including LeBron James. Mahomes was chosen mainly for his controversial “social justice” activity which includes his support for the Black Lives Movement and activities he has involved himself in related to the Colin Kaepernick and George Floyd events…on both he’s on the very “left side’ of the ‘conversation’.

As the UK’s Daily Mail put it: “Similarly, Mahomes helped the NFL embrace the Black Lives Matter movement after previously quarreling with players over the right to protest during the national anthem.

“After joining with other players on a messaging campaign in response to Floyd’s death, Mahomes and his foundation then helped pay for new voting machines in Kansas City.
‘He understands the issue of voter suppression in America,’ wrote former Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl. ‘He wanted to make sure that people had an opportunity for a fair election—that whoever you support, you just get the chance to vote.’

In one NFL commercial this year, Mahomes appeared with other players in a BLM endorseded video. Each player appeared ‘for’ an alleged “victim of police racism”…Mahomes cited Tamir Rice, the 12 year old Cleveland youth who was shot by police after brandishing an authentic appearing toy handgun. (The police were cleared of any wrongdoing in the past week.It’s very doubtful that Mahomes is aware of any particulars of that case which would lead to the honest conclusion that it was not police racism, but a very tragic result of the corrosion of the American public’s perception of law enforcement, their role in a free and secure society, and the difficulties and peril they face every day.)

Another thing Mahomes likely doesn’t know much about except what the Left, BLM, and Stacy Abrams say is “voter suppression”… you know, things like “voter identification”.

‘He understands the issue of voter suppression in America,’ wrote former Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl. ‘He wanted to make sure that people had an opportunity for a fair election—that whoever you support, you just get the chance to vote.’

In addition to efforts promoting the Kaepernick ‘protest’ behavior, the anti-police rhetoric surrounding the Floyd killing, and his willing identification with the radical left Black Lives Matter movement, there was another aspect of the Mahomes persona revealed in the widespread coverage of Mahomes’ new digs.

All in all, Patrick Mahomes is probably, on the whole, much like he is publicly presented…a decent young man, but duped and imbued with a political ideology by a corrupted educational experience.

But, the fact remains, I’m no longer a “fan’ of Patrick Mahomes.          dlh

*From the Kansas City Star…
Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes makes his voice heard. He should talk about the Tomahawk Chop       By Dave Helling

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes recently joined with other NFL players in condemning racism and demanding that the league recognize the players’ right to protest injustice.

“I am Tamir Rice,” Mahomes says in the viral Black Lives Matter video, referring to the 12-year-old African American killed by the Cleveland police.

Mahomes’ willingness to take a stand sent a potent message that resonated far beyond Kansas City. “He has been the MVP of this league. He has won a Super Bowl,” said Doug Williams, a former NFL quarterback who’s African American. “It says a lot that he wanted to be involved in pushing for … change. It was very powerful.”

Mahomes has quickly emerged as much more than a star quarterback. He is a respected and consequential voice in the NFL, and his involvement — along with teammate Tyrann Mathieu’s — no doubt played a role in NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s decision to acknowledge that “we were wrong” in handling player protests.

“I’ve been given this platform,” Mahomes later told reporters. “I want to make sure that I can do whatever I can to make the world a better place.

Speaking out and declaring that “Black lives matter” took courage and self-awareness. Mahomes could remain silent and simply enjoy his money and fame, and no one would think less of him for it. He is just 24 years old.

But there is more he can do.

The Chiefs overuse native symbols, particularly the Tomahawk Chop, in marketing and on game day. Many Native American groups find the chop offensive and want it to stop.

The Star Editorial Board has called for a new tradition and an end to this affront to Native Americans. But the team and thousands of fans have resisted. The chop goes on.

That’s where Mahomes comes in. Surely he now recognizes that the chop is unnecessary and provocative, and is particularly offensive at this moment. All Americans, he knows, deserve to be treated with respect — not reduced to a stereotype in a meaningless chant.

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