Will there be a drive to take the knee?

It is an acknowledgement of the kneeler's position as a slave and a protest against that slavery, it says I will not stand for people or a country who treat me as property and with contempt.

It is not new it goes back to the 1700s or earlier.

This is a tragic event and should never happen in this country but I don't see the connection to the thread title at all.

Let's just get real for a minute.

This is where it came from.

http://what-when-how.com/western-colonialism/abolition-of-colonial-slavery/



Colin Rand Kaepernick revived this symbol in 2016 that is what you are referring to.

edit:
This symbolism was used by British abolitionists, today it is adopted in a modern context, it is still valid, more so now after hundreds of years of white supremacism, differential life opportunities depending on skin colour.

Basically if you are white you are all equally disadvantaged, if you happen to have a tint of colour your disadvantage is greater than any of the whites.

The sh*t poor dumb over breeding white lassie on benefits is still born into a world where her opportunities are greater than the same girl in the same position who happens to be black.

The other way of putting it is that the black girl has an added handicap, added by the society that sees her as a threat, she will be jailed far more often than the white girl, she will face more barriers in life for no other reason than she produces a lot of melanin in her skin.

edit2:

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Oh FFS wake up it is much bigger than that.

Try this for a bit of reality about recent times before 2016.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/1...tates, and eventually left him without a team.

Scroll down 2012.

Colin Kaepernick revived the symbol in 2016, as I said post #6.

ok.

My thoughts are with the family and colleagues of the slain officer.