'People in Ashfield are Sick of Hearing Our Community Mentioned Every Time Lee Anderson Makes a Prejudiced Comment' – Byline Times

Arran Rangi, who lives in Lee Anderson’s Ashfield constituency, explores his MP's effect on his home town – and the racism he thought was in the past

Byline Times
> If somebody’s getting beat up, you should be right there getting beat up, too. I think that our[white people's] role in this is tremendous, because we benefit so much, and we have benefited so much, and there’s yet to be a true national reckoning and acknowledgement and admission to what we did in the past and what we continue to do.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/megan-rapinoe-retirement/
#DavidZirin #ZIrin with #Rapinoe #MeganRapinoe #RaceRelations #USA #TakeTheKnew #TakingTheKnee #ColinKaepernick #Kaepernick
The Megan Rapinoe Era Only Ends When We Stop Fighting Back

The most important soccer player of her generation is saying goodbye after the 2023 World Cup. But her legacy will persist as long as athletes stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.

The Nation

What is represented by kneeling?

Subservience?  Obedience?  Humility?  Religiosity?  Divisiveness?

It all depends on the witness, of course, and their angle of observation.

What is the meaning of a clenched fist salute?

Pride?  Solidarity?  Defiance?  Triumphalism?  Black anger?

In America, meaning is only inferred from gestures and symbols after checking the skin colour of the person using them.

Read more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2023/05/20/francis-scott-key-and-taking-the-knee/

#TakingTheKnee #FrancisScottKey #BlackLivesMatter

Francis Scott Key and Taking the Knee - Before We Were White

What is represented by kneeling? Subservience? Obedience? Humility? Religiosity? Divisiveness? It all depends on the witness, of course, and their angle of observation. What is the meaning of a clenched fist salute? Pride? Solidarity? Defiance? Triumphalism? Black anger? In America, as ever, meaning is only inferred and attached to gestures and symbols after checking

Before We Were White - The Hidden History of Heartland America

Regular as clockwork - all the right wing racists are up in arms about England footballers taking the knee🙄

Talk of it being “divisive”

You know what?

It really only bothers the racists.

So if that’s the dividing line - I’m ok with that!

#takingtheknee #EnglandVsIran #KickItOut #racism

#DominicRaab criticised for comments on #BLM #protesters #TakingTheKnee | #Politics | The Guardian

The Foreign Secretary is the jerk who was surprised to learn how much freight went through Dover.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/18/dominic-raab-taking-the-knee-feels-like-symbol-of-subjugation

#UK #BlackLivesMatter #Tories

Dominic Raab criticised for comments on BLM protesters taking the knee

Foreign secretary said symbolic act ‘seems to be taken from Game of Thrones’