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Teacher Kneels at Football Game Attended by Trump

Teacher Kneels at Football Game Attended by Trump

We Still Kneeling in 2020: Former Teacher of the Year Takes a Knee at Game Attended by Trump

I’ve always thought that if, on the fateful day when Colin Kaepernick chose to remain seated during the National Anthem in protest of police violence against black people, the media, zealous patriots and angry white people in general would’ve just ignored him and not made such a big to do about it, they and the NFL would’t plagued with the silent protest that gets their star-spangled underoos all in a bunch 4 years later. After all, its not as if he stood up in his seat and stared kicking over Gatorade kegs while blasting NWA’s Fuck The Police through a loudspeaker. All he did was stay his ass seated.
But they rained down fire and brimstone (actually they rained down snowflakes, but that messes up dramatic effect) on the formal pro football player, prompting him to begin the notorious practice of taking a knee during the anthem; a trend even Jay-Z a.k.a. Sean “We’re Past Kneeling” Carter couldn’t quell. Nah bruh, we still at it.
Former Minnesota Teacher of the Year Kelly D. Holstine decided to carry on the tradition when she took a knee during the anthem at a college football national championship game attended by President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
Holstine was named Minnesota Teacher of the Year in May 2018. She was among CONTINUE READING: Teacher Kneels at Football Game Attended by Trump