What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee

[Shell B]

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there. - Malcolm X

While the general attitude/goals of Malcolm X never jived with how I hoped race relations would go, that man made a lot of sense a lot of the time. It's tough for everyone who wants to heal those wounds and work together on the future of our country, instead of being distracted by stupid shit like skin color, when a good portion of this country refuses to believe racism is even a problem here. They see the number of black men incarcerated as indicative of the quality of black people rather than indicative of the socioeconomic pressure put on black men/women since slavery was ended.

Anyway, if I go off on the topic, it'll just go on forever. Suffice to say that I was disappointed this Sunday when my Patriots didn't kneel.