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Kneel for Injustice. Kneel for Equality.

Sedition can take many forms and though the most forthright acts of treason are comprised of armed attacks like terror bombings (see Bill Ayers) there are other, more subtle, forms which act as psychological, rather than a physical, explosion. And so, when the UVA men's hoops team released a group photo of themselves kneeling for injustice and equality the other day I felt the full force of their psychic blast peal the skin from my face and felt the searing heat melt my eyeballs onto my charred skull which soon flaked away to expose my pulsating brain that throbbed in modulating rhythm with the LCD until it too exploded into a bazillion tiny atoms of mist. Direct hit - Wrong place, wrong time, wrong universe. How did we get here? Is it really all just Colin Kaepernick's fault? I say NO, the problem runs much deeper than the athletes who, foolish though they might be, are just acting out.
London Perrantes is a fantastic point guard on the court, and I'm asuming he's got some smarts to attend UVA (even on an athletic scholarship) but I think what he's trying to say here is "kneel for justice" NOT injustice. So it's a typo - no big deal - unless he is actually kneeling for injustice which would be a bold statement and require a completely different commentary on the KOTCB blog. But my problem with this effort has little to do with justice/injustice or equality (I would point out that justice and equality are not complimentary ideals and one could say that conceptually they work against each other) but it is the act of kneeling that gets my goat. The conflation of kneeling (an act of submission) with an act of protest is simply ignorant and un-American - especially when it comes to the national anthem. I hate watching these athletes kneel not because I think they don't have any reason to complain - who doesn't (that's what this blog is all about) - but because it demonstrates weakness and subservience to the state. It's worse than the "hands up, don't shoot" surrender that so many SJW's were pantomiming after Fergusson. It's seditious in its complete rejection of Americas founding ideal that requires - demands - participation in the political economy and civic ecosystem. It is a gesture that fundamentally transforms the nobel citizen into a groveling subject. When it comes to protest, I've got a very different idea about what TRUE protest looks like:


In your face American pussies - Angelo Graham from the great state of Tennessee will show you what a true protest looks like. When I see the UVA Basketball team dressed in ape suites wearing All Lives Matter tee shirts STANDING TALL I'll know the ship of state has been righted and is sailing forward to a beautiful future.

It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees

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