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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCity councilman takes a knee during pledge of allegiance..".
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/12/28/san-anselmo-councilman-takes-a-knee-during-pledge-of-allegiance/ Good for him.
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City councilman takes a knee during pledge of allegiance..". (Original Post)
a kennedy
Dec 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(34,282 posts)1. The idiot who chuckles and says "oh my god"
To him and millions more it is a joke.
Notice what color he is and that color of person in this country has ALL the privilege?
ProfessorGAC
(76,119 posts)2. Finally!
The anthem and pledge thing is stupid anyway. About time someone started pushing back, other than a few football players.
niyad
(130,439 posts)3. good for him!!
I have refused to stand for the anthem or the pledge for many years now. now I will take a knee if possible.
I remind people that the constitution prohibits loyalty oaths, which is what the pledge is.
Brother Buzz
(39,698 posts)4. San Anselmo is in Marin county....land of hot tubs and peacock feathers
Former President George Bush told a newspaper he is sorry he maligned this area by describing American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh as "some misguided Marin County hot-tubber." ... I am chastened and will never use 'hot tub' and 'Marin County' in the same sentence again.
