Are you confused by the above diagram, depicting and labelling the players on two opposing football teams? Most are. Actually, it’s not as complicated as it looks…an offensive position starts with an O and defense with a D. The numbers on jerseys give you further clues and so do the players names on the back.

If only it was that simple in real life. A friend just posted on Twitter, apologizing for using a racial slur, after using the word Eskimo in a song that was written that way. Call me ignorant, stupid, or a racist, but that’s a new one on me. Am I the only one having a hard time with this? Are blacks now people of color after being Negro, brown, African-American and black?

Does everyone know what LGBTQQIP2SAA stands for? I lost track after the first five letters. Can’t we just call each other they or them? Don’t ask Don Cherry. At 82 years of age, Billy D. Williams publicly announced he was gender fluid. Two days later he said he wasn’t sure what exactly that meant. Where does all this stop?

Maybe we should adopt the football mentality and number everyone…or better yet, have everyone where name tags. If everyone wants to be treated as equals than why do they want to be labelled or classified as something specific or different? I consider myself informed, but I can’t keep up. Can you? Should we have to…what ever happened to our right to free speech or opinion?