Saw this analogy and like it. If there are 10 seats at our table, we all have our plate of food, except for one guy, and he never gets fed as we eat, is he a diner? Is he part of we? We can’t really call him one of us.
We can’t call all of us Americans when there is inequality, when there is a heinous level of abuse against one ethnic group. It's about George Floyd, yes. It's about centuries of abuse against all people.
Kneeling is one simple way - recommended by Green Beret Nate Boyer, who happens to be white, to then-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2016 - to peacefully protest this imbalance. Silent majority America is not willing to accept the hate killings of African American men, women and children anymore.
It is not a knock against the dream, the service of our men and women in the armed forces, and it is not disrespect. It is longing. It is pleading. It is begging from the mothers of this nation who have seen their children gunned down, strung up, and even when there is no fatality, having guns drawn on them, even on grandmothers - for things as mundane as running through a stop sign. One student at Oregon State was wrestled to the ground, cuffed and pinned for 15 minutes because she didn’t ride her bicycle in the bike lane.
All things considered, a kneel is a tremendously grace-filled, God-blessed way to make a point. We all will support equality and peace. Or watch it happen from the sideline.
🇺🇸🙏🏼❤️✊🏼🤙🏼
#BlackLivesMatter
We can’t call all of us Americans when there is inequality, when there is a heinous level of abuse against one ethnic group. It's about George Floyd, yes. It's about centuries of abuse against all people.
Kneeling is one simple way - recommended by Green Beret Nate Boyer, who happens to be white, to then-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2016 - to peacefully protest this imbalance. Silent majority America is not willing to accept the hate killings of African American men, women and children anymore.
It is not a knock against the dream, the service of our men and women in the armed forces, and it is not disrespect. It is longing. It is pleading. It is begging from the mothers of this nation who have seen their children gunned down, strung up, and even when there is no fatality, having guns drawn on them, even on grandmothers - for things as mundane as running through a stop sign. One student at Oregon State was wrestled to the ground, cuffed and pinned for 15 minutes because she didn’t ride her bicycle in the bike lane.
All things considered, a kneel is a tremendously grace-filled, God-blessed way to make a point. We all will support equality and peace. Or watch it happen from the sideline.
🇺🇸🙏🏼❤️✊🏼🤙🏼
#BlackLivesMatter
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