Taking a knee now in Europe

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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    RYME said:
    No no no no no, Does anyone remember history?
    It was the Brits initially who brought Africans to North America on those hideous slave ships in the first place.  Not American idealism. So kneeling during America's anthem in England and then standing for Britain's Anthem is sheer ignorance.  Columbus was trying to escape oppression but oppression kind of followed him here from back over there.

    I can only assume this post is sarcasm.
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  • RYME
    RYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    oftenreading said:
    RYME said:
    No no no no no, Does anyone remember history?
    It was the Brits initially who brought Africans to North America on those hideous slave ships in the first place.  Not American idealism. So kneeling during America's anthem in England and then standing for Britain's Anthem is sheer ignorance.  Columbus was trying to escape oppression but oppression kind of followed him here from back over there.

    I can only assume this post is sarcasm.
    Thank you yes sarcasm. Didn't mean to start a fire storm. ;)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    I think it's great that people in other countries are speaking out (or kneeling down) against racism.  I'm surprised some have a problem witht his thread.  Sorry to hear that. 
    pjhawks said:
    i'd like all you guys to go into work tomorrow and in the middle of a meeting take a knee. let's see how that goes over in your work place.  Protests don't belong in the work place.
    No problem!

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    Brian:  "Well, dear, I'm taking a knee."
    C:  "Oh!  OK."
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    edited October 2017
    RYME said:
    No no no no no, Does anyone remember history?
    It was the Brits initially who brought Africans to North America on those hideous slave ships in the first place.  Not American idealism. So kneeling during America's anthem in England and then standing for Britain's Anthem is sheer ignorance.  Columbus was trying to escape oppression but oppression kind of followed him here from back over there.
    COLUMBUS??

    Trader sailed a jeweled crown
    Humanity rowed the way
    Exploring to command more land
    Scheming how to rule the waves.
    Trader spied a virgin plain
    And named it for velvet robes
    Wrote home declaring,
    "There's a place
    Where totally folks are free
    (Happily completely)
    Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides
    And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside
    And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies
    Signed sincerely."

    Trader found the jeweled land
    Was occupied before he came
    By humans of a second look
    Who couldn't even write their names (shit!)
    Trader said they're not as good
    As folks who wear velvet robes
    Wrote home again and asked, "Please help
    Their breasts I see; they're not like me
    Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides
    Clear them from our mountains and our seaside
    I want them off our lakes so please reply
    Signed sincerely.

    Trader he got the crown okay
    Cleared humanity from his way
    He civilized all he saw
    Making changes every single day say
    Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides
    Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside
    The other kind fled to hide, by and by,
    And so sincerely
    Cried."

    -Carl Wilson

    Post edited by brianlux on
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    RYME said:
    oftenreading said:
    RYME said:
    No no no no no, Does anyone remember history?
    It was the Brits initially who brought Africans to North America on those hideous slave ships in the first place.  Not American idealism. So kneeling during America's anthem in England and then standing for Britain's Anthem is sheer ignorance.  Columbus was trying to escape oppression but oppression kind of followed him here from back over there.

    I can only assume this post is sarcasm.
    Thank you yes sarcasm. Didn't mean to start a fire storm. ;)
    That went right over my head lol
    Sorry, my bad.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,500
    pjhawks said:
    i'd like all you guys to go into work tomorrow and in the middle of a meeting take a knee. let's see how that goes over in your work place.  Protests don't belong in the work place.
    Funny, I don’t recall reading that disclaimer in the text of the First Amendment.

    Apparently you’ve never heard of unions, either.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 43,126
    pjhawks said:
    i'd like all you guys to go into work tomorrow and in the middle of a meeting take a knee. let's see how that goes over in your work place.  Protests don't belong in the work place.
    Can I pray five times a day in the work place?
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  • vaggar99
    vaggar99 San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    edited October 2017
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    pjhawks said:
    i'd like all you guys to go into work tomorrow and in the middle of a meeting take a knee. let's see how that goes over in your work place.  Protests don't belong in the work place.
    Can I pray five times a day in the work place?
    you can, but unless you are praying to Jesus, you are still going to hell
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,502
    pjhawks said:
    i'd like all you guys to go into work tomorrow and in the middle of a meeting take a knee. let's see how that goes over in your work place.  Protests don't belong in the work place.
    Sorry, terrible comparison. More like if you kneeled in the parking lot or when you got in your office first thing (If the anthem is played I guess because what other thing would compare at your job). Who gives a shit? An employee of mine (union worker mind you) thought they shouldn't be allowed to kneel because they're on the job and went off about what if he kneeled. I told him sure, go ahead and kneel the next time you start your shift. We don't play the anthem, but find an equivalent time and go for it if that's what you believe in. 
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,022
    Fyi all the countries that make up Britain have their own anthem. Anytime anyone calls sarcasm after they realise they are wrong always stinks.Berlin is a very multi cultural city
     So many nationalities live there, so i totally get the logic. Many Turkish,African,European call it home.Great idea to bring the people together rather than separate them . Quite what'British' has to do with a german football team has to do with anything is beyond me!


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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,022
    edited October 2017
    Also my son worked at mc donalds when he was at college and they had a muslim man that prayed 5 times a day at work on his prayer mat. No problem.


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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,855
    Lewis Hamilton has also said that he may kneel during the anthem at the US Formula 1 Grand Prix.
    Personally I think it's great to see other countries joining in solidarity
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,022
    I hope he does
     I love lewis


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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,392
    Ze Germans?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYdIXRTBXLo
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,392
    The country of Germany ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFrcl6VGrDQ
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,392
    goldrush said:
    Lewis Hamilton has also said that he may kneel during the anthem at the US Formula 1 Grand Prix.
    Personally I think it's great to see other countries joining in solidarity
    Image of Brit Lewis Hamilton after taking a knee during the American national anthem in Texas ....



    Just gotta make sure they have the right trajectory to clear the wall on the way to the Mexican GP.  Cheerio!
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,022
    The usa scares me because it keeps on attacking"the world". 


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    Jason P said:
    goldrush said:
    Lewis Hamilton has also said that he may kneel during the anthem at the US Formula 1 Grand Prix.
    Personally I think it's great to see other countries joining in solidarity
    Image of Brit Lewis Hamilton after taking a knee during the American national anthem in Texas ....



    Just gotta make sure they have the right trajectory to clear the wall on the way to the Mexican GP.  Cheerio!
    Reminds me of this craziness:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YTibVhFDSw

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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Holy crap, I can't believe that worked!
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,022
    Now thats physics at its best. 


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