Dear Cleveland Browns: Protesters are not unifiers

Please.  Let's get this straight.  When you protest, you are not unifying.  You're dividing.

That might be fine and good.  I'm not saying it's always wrong to divide.  As a general rule, we celebrate those who bucked the systems when the systems were wrong or evil or whatnot.  How they did it can be brought into discussion.  Was Bonhoeffer right or not is a frequent debate.  But nobody faults Bonhoeffer for going against the majority.

So this notion that President Trump, and not the players who have taken a knee to protest the National Anthem, is the divider is ludicrous.  Stop it.  Stop thinking that as long as you go along with the progressive narrative you can call squares round and it's just fine.  It ins't.

The players taking a knee and protesting are, by definition, sowing divisions.  And if you agree with their cause, then so be it.  Some may agree with the cause but feel it is neither the time nor place.  Sort of like when ESPN and many in the press hounded Tebow for bringing politics into the NFL, or when there were protests for having Rush Limbaugh be a commentator because he was too political (there might be a trend here, but I'll have to get back to it).

But the idea that Trump is causing divisions and those who are basically flipping the bird to the fans who have asked that they stop are the unifiers?  Just stop it.  That wont' help.  Especially a limping along, broken, and failed franchise like the Cleveland Browns.  If that were the case, that you can change reality just by saying it, then I'd start insisting that the team with the fewest points is the winner.

Oh, and that also includes using the word 'unity' enough to make a drinking game out of it.  Saying something over and over and over again won't make it anymore true than if you say it once.