Orlando Gooden is a poisonous force in our culture and should not be allowed anywhere near eight-year-olds

This is horrific:

The entire Cahokia Quarterback Club football team, which is made up of kids who are eight or even younger, took a knee during the playing of the National Anthem before their game last Sunday at Little Devil’s Field in Belleville, Ill. And they were encouraged to do so by their coach.

“One of the kids asked me if I saw (people) protesting and rioting in St. Louis. I said yes; I said, ‘Do you know why they are doing it?’” said Coach Orlando Gooden.

Coach Gooden said his player responded, “Because black people are getting killed and nobody’s going to jail.”

Gooden, who played football at Mizzou, said the kids knew about the Jason Stockley decision.

“I felt like it was a good teaching moment for me to circle the team and have a meeting,” he said.

The coach said he spoke to them about that and other situations that have happened in our country. He then explained why former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem.

“One of the kids asked, ‘Can we do that?’ I said, ‘As long as we know why we’re doing it, I don’t have a problem with any of it.’”

Here’s the problem, though. Did they know why they were taking a knee? Was it a chance to take part in a fad, or did the coach and other adults present engage in an age-appropriate discussion of why it might or might not be a good idea to kneel during the anthem? And what about using this “teaching moment” to challenge the falsehood put forth by the child that “black people are getting killed and nobody’s going to jail”?

Coach Gooden went on to say, “What I teach my kids is love, integrity, honesty, fairness, respect … boundaries.” While it’s good the coach is teaching these important things, let’s be clear, these are notthings Colin Kaepernick
stands kneels for. Kaepernick kneels for one thing: Colin Kaepernick. It is a self-indulgent temper tantrum from a man who has thrived because America gave him many opportunities to do so. His ingratitude to the nation that helped him succeed is not the lesson to be teaching the pee wee team.

We’re talking about third graders here. They don’t have the maturity to take on this issue; they almost definitely had little understanding of what they were doing. The adults knew better, but let it happen anyway. 

I suppose one solution is to carve up the kids' crotches and render them eunuchs so that playing football is not even an issue. That's a big thing in America's schools now.

Seriously,  this evil man is imprinting a lasting notion in his players' minds, the basic leftist  notion that the United States of America is inherently flawed, that its law-enforcement apparatus is not to be trusted, and that institutional bigotry is rampant.

Save that dog vomit for private discussions with fellow freedom-haters, Gooden. Leave innocent kids out of it.

This is yet another glaring bit of evidence that, since culture is upstream from politics and economics, boosting the GDP or wage levels or skilled-trades education is not going to cure the basic spiritual sickness that is at the root of society's present brittleness.