Will You Be Bending The Knee?

[david small]

An anti-racism campaign group is urging Britons to “take the knee” on their doorsteps for a socially distanced protest in solidarity with protesters in the US.

Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) has organised the protest for 6pm on Wednesday as part of a day of action against discrimination in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.

I won’t.

[Peter Pedant]

o god do you remember the black powa salutes
drove the whites crazy
crazier than they were
crazier than your average red neck and christ they werent exactly sane

[Mozz71]

Game of Thrones?

[Ken4155]

Zebo; GOT = Game Of Thrones

[TheWholeTruth]

Not a hope in hells chance, not even when hell freezes over...i'd like to give a knee though.

White lives matter

[Mozz71]

I'm sure they said "Bend the knee" rather than "take" in GOT anyway. Moot point, I know.

[Ken4155]

All lives matter.

[Mozz71]

//White lives matter//

ALL lives matter.

[retrocop]

//How typical that many in the US Right who are calling for peaceful protest are the same ones who got so offended by somebody kneeling at the start of a football game.//

Where they not doing that out of disrespect for the US National Anthem at the start of the game or am I thinking of something else?

[Mozz71]

Dammit Ken! :oD

[jim360]

Of course they do. There is nothing about the Black Lives Matter movement that suggests otherwise.

[pastafreak]

Taking the knee has also been used by the military as a way to show respect for fallen comrades...now, is that ok for those who think it's supporting the looters and violence?

[jim360]

Probably the same thing, but Kaepernick was protesting what he saw as systemic racism. It was a peaceful act, though, which is the point.

[Bazile]

It's a bit like the MOBO awards
Not just for black folk

[Mozz71]

//Where they not doing that out of disrespect for the US National Anthem at the start of the game or am I thinking of something else?//

No, they were doing it during the National Anthem, because any other time during the match it wouldn't be noticed or effective. Trump said it was a slight against all American veterans, American vets said (along the lines of) "No it isn't, it's a democratic right to protest, and that's one of the things we fought for".

[steg]

Booing for Boris on Tuesday, taking the knee Wednesday, clapping on Thursday, saluting buckfast Friday, busy week
Braw

[Peter Pedant]

steg
and er sleeping on saturday....
and to take a phrase from 3T - fooing on friday seems better than eating buckfast wheat ....alliterative it is - foo on Friday for fun !

[ToraToraTora]

shoota; "'“In the UK we’ve seen a black man tasered in front of his child in Manchester this month while Tory adviser Dominic Cummings gets away scot-free.' " - what was the guy doing to get tasered? I don't think an arrest was attempted on DC and he therefore didn't resist. Should he have been tasered anyway to cheer up the lefties?

[Mamyalynne]

I shall observe a silent reflection on the death of George and many like him much as I have done since I witnessed what happened.

[shoota]

I lifted that from the website merely to illustrate their twisted thinking TTT.
It's very easy to pick holes in it but I havn't the energy. I just can't get my head round the mentality of the person/group that would make a statement like that.

[Samuraisan]

No