RE: What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee
September 27, 2017 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2017 at 2:08 pm by TheBeardedDude.)
(September 27, 2017 at 2:05 pm)Losty Wrote: Or if they did anything that was actually disrespectful. They don't boo, they don't look at their cell phones, they don't do anything distracting. I mean, one could argue that kneeling is actually more respectful than standing.
The whole point of kneeling was to protest respectfully (I linked a NY Times article earlier in the thread where Eric Reid, who started the protest with Kapernick, says that they decided on kneeling specifically to be respectful in their protest)
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