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[QUOTE="CajunHusky, post: 1794489, member: 6416"]
You know by kneeling maybe these people are trying to make a statement and be respectful ...... I get it and I respect that.

I grew up in a deep south community that was 60% black.  The police force was a 100% white. I remember being amazed there were three black students out of a thousand in my high school - there weren't any black students in my grammar school.  Heck it was against the law, literally, to sell your house to a black person.  I remember as a high school student getting on a public bus and a middleaged black woman laden with packages rose to give me her seat.  I remember the public swimming pool closing rather than let black children swim.

I served 25 years in the military, active duty and reserves, and the blacks were automatically sent to serve the food or do the laundry.  And that was in the late 60's early 70's.

I gotta tell you when my Town Council started reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before all meetings because they thought it "made you feel good" it bothered me.  I thought it smelled just a little bit like McCarthyism.  Like some kind of test I have to pass with my fellow citizens.

So if he feels a need to protest and be respectful doing so I got no problem with that .....
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