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Take a Knee

For a little while last summer I thought about writing out my position on Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling, because it felt a little like he was being blackballed from the NFL for it.  But when I thought about that feeling, I didn’t think it was exactly true, and the moment seemed to slip away. I think it would have stayed like that for the whole country: eventually the new normal for a while might have included one or two players at a sporting event kneeling or sitting, or putting a fist in the air during the anthem.  It might have even gotten to where they couldn’t say why they did it. Then the Divider-in-Chief stuck his tweet in. You have to laugh.  The incredibly tone-deaf, insensitive, money-mad owners of the NFL standing with their players against the big bully.  They, at least, understand that all the kneeling and arm-locking this past weekend wasn’t about Black Lives Matter or disrespecting the flag.  It was a statement that what really matters in fo...