Why They Take a Knee

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Body cam catches Boston cop bragging about running over Black Lives Matter protestors


In a video that is quickly going viral, a sergeant with the Boston Police Department bragged to a fellow officer on body camera about "fucking hitting" Black Lives Matter protestors

with his car. “Dude, dude, dude, I fucking, I drove down Tremont. There was an unmarked state police cruiser they were all fucking gathered around,” the sergeant begins. “So then

I had a fucker keep coming, fucking running. I’m fucking hitting people with the car. Did you hear me? I was like, 'Get the fuck—'” At this point in the video, his recording officer

briefly taps the sergeant on the head, turn his body camera away and then informs the sergeant that the camera is on. Though the sergeant quickly replies, "I know," he begin

stammering as he tries to say that he did not in fact hit protestors with his car like he just said. "What I’m saying is, though, ... I didn’t hit anybody, like, just driving.... My windows

were closed, the shit was coming in," the sergeant says before quickly falling silent and shaking his head. The recording officer then says, as if in apologetic explanation, "This

thing just fucking went on automatically," referring to the body cam.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340296990874365954

. The footage is part of the hours of footage featuring Boston police's response to the [racial justice protests that occurred during and after June 2020]."

https://www.rawstory.com/boston-police-body-cams/

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

i have no problem with them taking a knee, but does it have to be during the Anthem? why not before the game as a group or after, so that no one confuses their righteous protest against racism and unequal policing and justice systems with being anti-american in general. in every crowd, there has to be a fairly large number of people whose fathers or sons or brothers died fighting for this country, and they will not see the protest, they will only see the disrespect.

 

[Freddy Figbottom]

i have no problem with them taking a knee, but does it have to be during the Anthem? why not before the game as a group or after, so that no one confuses their righteous protest against racism and unequal policing and justice systems with being anti-american in general. in every crowd, there has to be a fairly large number of people whose fathers or sons or brothers died fighting for this country, and they will not see the protest, they will only see the disrespect.

they are anti american in general. the framers of the constitution were racist, so they want to throw it away. true story.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

they are anti american in general. the framers of the constitution were racist, so they want to throw it away. true story.

society evolves. if everybody in society believed black people were inferior, then it is not racist to join the crowd if that is all that you have been taught and what you have observed. to call the founding fathers racist because they had not yet "woke" and rejected all they had been taught is like calling them mentally impaired because they did not know germs caused disease and had not invented penicillin yet.

and it is pro-american to want this country to live up to its ideals as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and as mandated by the Constitution, as amended.

 

[Freddy Figbottom]

society evolves. if everybody in society believed black people were inferior, then it is not racist to join the crowd if that is all that you have been taught and what you have observed. to call the founding fathers racist because they had not yet "woke" and rejected all they had been taught is like calling them mentally impaired because they did not know germs caused disease and had not invented penicillin yet.

and it is pro-american to want this country to live up to its ideals as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and as mandated by the Constitution, as amended.

that's not what blm and 1619 project believe. they want to throw it away.

 

[katzgar]

i have no problem with them taking a knee, but does it have to be during the Anthem? why not before the game as a group or after, so that no one confuses their righteous protest against racism and unequal policing and justice systems with being anti-american in general. in every crowd, there has to be a fairly large number of people whose fathers or sons or brothers died fighting for this country, and they will not see the protest, they will only see the disrespect.

the fact that those people are so arrogant that they have to try and impose their opinions and attitudes on others is the problem

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

that's not what blm and 1619 project believe. they want to throw it away.

I don't think so. sure, they want to emphasize the black part of our history, but look how many years they were not even allowed to go to the same school as white kids, they want to emphasize what they may have been taught in their all black schools. that is not weird. in texas, we spent way way way more time talking about Texas history than American history and hardly no time talking about European history...AND NOTHING ABOUT ASIAN HISTORY....all of us are ethno-centric, if left to our own devices and not evolved enough to realize how much all races are alike and how there is so tiny any real difference.

 

[Freddy Figbottom]

I don't think so. sure, they want to emphasize the black part of our history, but look how many years they were not even allowed to go to the same school as white kids, they want to emphasize what they may have been taught in their all black schools. that is not weird. in texas, we spent way way way more time talking about Texas history than American history and hardly no time talking about European history...AND NOTHING ABOUT ASIAN HISTORY....all of us are ethno-centric, if left to our own devices and not evolved enough to realize how much all races are alike and how there is so tiny any real difference.

The project's creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work, argued that the U.S. Constitution was a "decidedly undemocratic" document and that "anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country." This interpretation of the American founding has been the subject of a heated debate. The 1619 Project has also been adapted into a high school curriculum that attempts to "reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date."

https://reason.com/video/2020/12/16/frederick-douglass-vs-the-1619-project/?post_type=video

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

the fact that those people are so arrogant that they have to try and impose their opinions and attitudes on others is the problem

how is it imposing? do you feel the same way when all the anti-choice folks bus in people from all over to have an anti-choice parade? or when a bunch of trump voters in boats had a little boat parade making other boats in the lake having to avoid them?

 

[evince]

i have no problem with them taking a knee, but does it have to be during the Anthem? why not before the game as a group or after, so that no one confuses their righteous protest against racism and unequal policing and justice systems with being anti-american in general. in every crowd, there has to be a fairly large number of people whose fathers or sons or brothers died fighting for this country, and they will not see the protest, they will only see the disrespect.

Taking a knee is NOT a disrespectful action

When a person takes a knee in front of an alter they are not insulting that alter


Dont buy into the lies of the right about anything


Taking a knee and bowing your head to the flag is not an insult to the flag


Its why THAT action was chosen

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

The project's creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work, argued that the U.S. Constitution was a "decidedly undemocratic" document and that "anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country." This interpretation of the American founding has been the subject of a heated debate. The 1619 Project has also been adapted into a high school curriculum that attempts to "reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date."

https://reason.com/video/2020/12/16/frederick-douglass-vs-the-1619-project/?post_type=video

she has a point, when you realize the Constitution stated that black people here as slaves should count as 2/3rds OF A PERSON FOR CENSUS PURPOSES. and the Supreme Court ruled that slaves who escaped into non-slave states had to be returned to THEIR OWNERS. and you think she is wrong? can you imagine being a slave? where is your empathy?

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Taking a knee is NOT a disrespectful action

When a person takes a knee in front of an alter they are not insulting that alter


Dont buy into the lies of the right about anything


Taking a knee and bowing your head to the flag is not an insult to the flag


Its why THAT action was chosen

if you only take a knee when the anthem is played, then, yes, goddamn it, it is connected to the anthem. especially when you consider what dickheaded bitch Kaepernick said about it-

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
— Colin Kaepernick, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Aug. 26, 2016

 

[evince]

Bring me the quote


I will explain it to you


All through mankind’s history taking a knee and bowing your head is a reverent act


Why did the right convince you THAT TIME it was an insult?

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Bring me the quote


I will explain it to you


All through mankind’s history taking a knee and bowing your head is a reverent act


Why did the right convince you THAT TIME it was an insult?

the right did not convince me of anything. it is obvious to someone who is not being convinced by soft-headed liberals. good god. trying to say they are actually bowing down to our country by kneeling!! you are hilarious!! i can see why black people could find it hard to respect the way this country has treated blacks!! and why women could be pissed off they were not even allowed to vote until the 1920's, and even after that treated like second class citizens...but no country is perfect, and when colin and others who blatantly just say they will not stand for that flag due to racism, i wonder if they wonder at all, or give any thanks, for the 360,000 white northern army boys who died fighting to rid this country of racism, fighting under that American flag, even when in their state no one was allowed to have slaves. just blow off their sacrifice?

 

[evince]

Taking a knee and bowing your head is not disrespect


Ask jesus

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

i have no problem with them taking a knee, but does it have to be during the Anthem? why not before the game as a group or after, so that no one confuses their righteous protest against racism and unequal policing and justice systems with being anti-american in general. in every crowd, there has to be a fairly large number of people whose fathers or sons or brothers died fighting for this country, and they will not see the protest, they will only see the disrespect.

Too bad then. It's obvious why they are protesting, and it won't change any racists' feelings about it no matter when they choose to kneel. If the goal is to focus public attention on this institutional racism, then they're doing it where they will have the most eyes on them.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Body cam catches Boston cop bragging about running over Black Lives Matter protestors


In a video that is quickly going viral, a sergeant with the Boston Police Department bragged to a fellow officer on body camera about "fucking hitting" Black Lives Matter protestors

with his car. “Dude, dude, dude, I fucking, I drove down Tremont. There was an unmarked state police cruiser they were all fucking gathered around,” the sergeant begins. “So then

I had a fucker keep coming, fucking running. I’m fucking hitting people with the car. Did you hear me? I was like, 'Get the fuck—'” At this point in the video, his recording officer

briefly taps the sergeant on the head, turn his body camera away and then informs the sergeant that the camera is on. Though the sergeant quickly replies, "I know," he begin

stammering as he tries to say that he did not in fact hit protestors with his car like he just said. "What I’m saying is, though, ... I didn’t hit anybody, like, just driving.... My windows

were closed, the shit was coming in," the sergeant says before quickly falling silent and shaking his head. The recording officer then says, as if in apologetic explanation, "This

thing just fucking went on automatically," referring to the body cam.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340296990874365954

. The footage is part of the hours of footage featuring Boston police's response to the [racial justice protests that occurred during and after June 2020]."

https://www.rawstory.com/boston-police-body-cams/

Good gods. Not only should this guy be parted with his job and pension, the rest of the force needs a good scrubbing.

 

[katzgar]

how is it imposing? do you feel the same way when all the anti-choice folks bus in people from all over to have an anti-choice parade? or when a bunch of trump voters in boats had a little boat parade making other boats in the lake having to avoid them?

This is America you can take your arrogance and shove it up your ass

 

[Freddy Figbottom]

she has a point, when you realize the Constitution stated that black people here as slaves should count as 2/3rds OF A PERSON FOR CENSUS PURPOSES. and the Supreme Court ruled that slaves who escaped into non-slave states had to be returned to THEIR OWNERS. and you think she is wrong? can you imagine being a slave? where is your empathy?

so they don't believe in the constitution.

 

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I don't think anyone is taking a knee anymore...are they?