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