I found an EXCELLENT rebuttal word for the "taking a knee" controversy.

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5. Meh - the heck with them. We should be aiming this at the middle-of-the-roaders.

And the people who are just really upset about this but are only hearing ONE side of the argument. OR those folks who actually feel the way we do about this, but don't have the nerve to speak out about it (perhaps they're surrounded by family or their community or their red state and they feel alone and isolated in their feelings). Has ANYBODY spoken up to point out how peaceable and even noble this is, aside from Michael Steele earlier today?

Anybody offer an opposing take on it, or defense of it? The simple act of taking a knee has been totally perverted and poisoned by the resentniks and deplorables and others who probably just have an issue with the nerve of those black people to speak out against how badly too many of their mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters have been treated?

I swear - some of those old newsreels during the 50s and 60s when schools and other institutions and outlets (down to the coffee shop counters, bathrooms, and for Pete's Sake, drinking fountains) in the South were finally ordered integrated. The white authorities set attack dogs on people. Shot firehoses at them. Fellow human beings, being treated so wretchedly. I swear - it's sickening. And deeply embarrassing. We should have known better back then. But lo these many years later, there's no excuse. We should already know better by now.