I found an EXCELLENT rebuttal word for the "taking a knee" controversy.

[calimary]

Last edited Sat May 26, 2018, 03:01 PM - Edit history (2)

Those who think it's disrespectful should look up the word "supplication."

sup·pli·ca·tion
ˌsəpləˈkāSH(ə n/Submit
noun
the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly.
"he fell to his knees in supplication"

I was impressed with Michael Steele on MSNBC just now. It was his take on the NFL owners caving to trump's now-successful attempt to dictate behavior around the National Anthem. He correctly pointed out that taking a knee was a PEACEFUL gesture. A peaceful way to point out a legitimate longtime affront.

What? You'd rather violence ensue? You'd rather have parades of militant chanters menacingly carrying lit torches? Throwing things? Setting fires? Starting a riot or stampede? Fist-fighting? Taking a knee makes a point in the most UN-aggressive way imaginable. It's quite nuanced. This point doesn't need blunt force to be asserted or underscored.

And one other thing: NOBODY will convince me that taking a knee is something bad. That's what came with my husband's marriage proposal! The new Duchess of Sussex got the same kind of proposal, from reports I've heard. HOW DARE that gesture of gentility, humility, and earnestness be shat upon!!!

I'd love your input.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Repugs have twisted it to fit their own liddlebitty minds...

no matter how we frame it, they will stick to their guns. (pun intended)

[calimary]

5. Meh - the heck with them. We should be aiming this at the middle-of-the-roaders.

And the people who are just really upset about this but are only hearing ONE side of the argument. OR those folks who actually feel the way we do about this, but don't have the nerve to speak out about it (perhaps they're surrounded by family or their community or their red state and they feel alone and isolated in their feelings). Has ANYBODY spoken up to point out how peaceable and even noble this is, aside from Michael Steele earlier today?

Anybody offer an opposing take on it, or defense of it? The simple act of taking a knee has been totally perverted and poisoned by the resentniks and deplorables and others who probably just have an issue with the nerve of those black people to speak out against how badly too many of their mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters have been treated?

I swear - some of those old newsreels during the 50s and 60s when schools and other institutions and outlets (down to the coffee shop counters, bathrooms, and for Pete's Sake, drinking fountains) in the South were finally ordered integrated. The white authorities set attack dogs on people. Shot firehoses at them. Fellow human beings, being treated so wretchedly. I swear - it's sickening. And deeply embarrassing. We should have known better back then. But lo these many years later, there's no excuse. We should already know better by now.

[struggle4progress]

2. We should say they're fallen on their knees to pray for our country

Just who are all these people who don't want the players to pray? We can't let them take god out of football!

[calimary]

6. That's another good one!

What? You're against falling on one knee to a Higher Principle?

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Finally.

This has been my problem all along.

Kneeling is a sign of respect, not disrespect. What could be more respectful than kneeling? And are we really taking lessons in respect from Donald Effin' Trump? I’m gonna pass.

Those men couldn’t be more respectful if they tried.

[sheshe2]

4. Perfect.

Thank you calimary.