Stevie Wonder Kneels in Solidarity With NFL Players at New York Concert
Source: hollywood reporter
8:39 PM PDT 9/23/2017 by Shira Karsen, Billboard
"Tonight, I’m taking a knee for America," the superstar singer told the crowd at Central Park, showing solidarity with NFL players following Donald Trump's comments criticizing players who kneel during the national anthem.
Holding onto his son Kwame Morris, the legendary Stevie Wonder took "both knees" Saturday night at the sixth annual Global Citizen Festival in New York City's Central Park. “Tonight, I’m taking a knee for America,” the 67-year-old Wonder declared as he knelt down. “But not just one knee. Both knees. Both knees, in prayer for our planet, our future, our leaders of the world and our globe. Amen.”
The protest comes, of course, in solidarity with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick's now-viral move to take a knee during the national anthem in 2016. But the statement also followed a bitter cry from President Donald Trump earlier in the day, when he stated that NFL players who protest should be "fired."
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But beyond the beginning prayer and Pharrell's speechlessness, Wonder heavily politicized his set in other ways, nodding to Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's social media feud. "We must take care of each other and this planet. If we don’t, we could lose the ultimate video game of life," said the singer and activist. "Weapons are real, and rhetoric is dangerous." He also dedicated "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" to Republican Sen. John McCain, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, in honor of McCain's refusal to vote for Trump's bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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I'm sure he'll be his usual courteous and gracious self to a blind black man.
