I won’t take the knee because I refuse to be a slave.
The fashion of taking the knee, borne out of a Marxist/anarchist movement has hoodwinked many People of Colour (PoC) into thinking they should go on their knee and somehow that will bring about race equality and change the world. Madness, I know, but let us be honest, there are many people who are just not getting it and are far removed from the real meaning of being forced to get on your knee. They actually believe jumping on this latest bandwagon will help with their own shame.
There are only two meanings to being on one’s knees. The first is when some people pray to their God. The other is when you are forced to by your master since that is the very meaning of being enslaved. The whole world accepts and knows the concept of being forced to go on your knee. And it has nothing to do with race equality, freedom, empowerment or being independent. It has everything to do with a person or people who believe they are superior to you, and hence they believe you are beneath them and as such, you are forced to get on your knees.
Our ancestors were forced to get on their knees, not so that today we end up on our knees. They would bury their heads in shame knowing that their sacrifice over hundreds of years, is being undermined by their own descendants choosing voluntarily to go on their knee again. What can be more disrespectful than that?
The white Marxists and anarchists have actually managed to get some very silly PoC to take the knee. In decades to come people will look back and hang their heads in shame.
Slave owners used to force their slaves on their knees before branding them with a hot iron to mark them as their property. Slaves were either on their knees or hanging from a tree. A slave was property, and they would never dare to raise their heads.
So, if we want to show our displeasure at the racists, then let us have an act that is empowering. Why not stand tall. Head raised high. And if you like, have one hand raised with a clenched fist. That shows the world that we the PoC will never yield.
When Colin Kaepernick and his allies “took the knee” they adopted a pose drawn from the 18th/19th century of abolitionism. People mistakenly believe that by so doing it cuts the white emancipator from the frame. The truth, it reinforces the image of slavery and that PoC are nothing more than property worthy only of being on their knees and being subservient.
What I do know is that there are those taking the knee who are racists, and that there are some booing the taking of the knee who are also racist. For the media to paint one side negatively is to create a fake narrative. One that allows the racists to get away with it, because all they have to do is take the knee and guess what, the world salutes them for their ‘bravery’.
Are you going to be taken in by these rogues? Are you still a slave who is comfortable being on your knees? At what point will you, a PoC, free yourself of the chains of subservience? In the 21st C, you are guilty of your own enslavement if you bow to these white woke masters.
I won’t take the knee because I refuse to be a slave.
