'Teacher of the Year' kneels during anthem at college football championship attended by Trump
Source: ABC News
During a ceremony honoring the 2019 "Teachers of the Year," one in particular stood out.
The honoree from Minnesota, Kelly Holstine, chose to kneel during the national anthem at the NCAA football championship game on Monday, where the ceremony took place, "to stand up for marginalized and oppressed people," according to a tweet she wrote, which included a photograph of her kneeling.
"Like many before, I respectfully kneeled during Natl Anthem because, 'No one is free until we are all free,'" she wrote, referencing former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and citing a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Link to tweet
In April 2019, she was also one of two "Teachers of the Year" who skipped the White House ceremony, according to The Hill.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Maraya1969
(22,483 posts)Sticking this here so it will be seen
NCProgressive
(1,315 posts)Well done Ms. Holstine
Cornus
(871 posts)Wish there were more like her.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)2017 - Teachers of the year had the 'honor' of singing happy birthday to Melania.
llmart
(15,540 posts)I just read the article and how disgusting. The way those two treated the families was so disrespectful, but of course why am I surprised?
I'm also not surprised that the teacher was from a charter school. Everything they do is to promote the GOP agenda.
Karadeniz
(22,537 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)Her mispronounced, plagiarized "Be Best" program is all about her being bullied; never about helping other's children or other Slovenian sex workers.
She dresses like a person who has no sense of subtly or appropriate decorum, always emphasizing her 50 year old breasts, plastic face, and tightly pulled back eyes. Just because she got a known whoremonger and money launderer to marry her does not make her anything special. She could be special if she did something bedsides try to grift off the American people. But that's too much effort.
She's so awful. Thank god the American people, especially evangelicals, are all so accepting of female sex workers.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Maxheader
(4,373 posts)She is teacher of the year...
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I would not be nearly as cordial to the orange shit stain.
If given the opportunity, I would take a dump down orange donnies throat.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)canetoad
(17,168 posts)Kelly Holstine, right, shown with her wife Emma Freeman, left. Photo by Emma Freeman
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Just as he does with all young women.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)magicarpet
(14,155 posts)I am amazed trDump did not stomp out immediately. Go back to his golden toilet, take one of his royal dumps, and send out 1,000 tweets about commies who kneel.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)Guess she had a prescient sense that something was going to occur to make the Donald shit himself.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)which doesnt make a lot of sense for an indoor arena.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)joost5
(421 posts)The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)That's the kind of teacher I wish my kids would have had. And my grandkids would have now.
SKKY
(11,811 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)Trump and his followers are a disgrace
VarryOn
(2,343 posts)This issue had died down in recent months. We need it prominent as an issue for the 2020 election.