A team of 8-year-old football players have decided to take a knee

[OxQQme]

[tazkcmo]

1. And there it is.

The source of my hope.

[SamKnause]

3. I truly do not know how you can watch that video and have hope.

The black children and black adults took a knee.

The white children and white adults stood proudly with their hands over their hearts.

As a 64 year old white women it sickens me that the white adults don't have a fucking clue !!!!!!!!!!

The white adults are passing their ignorance and intolerance on to their children.

[OnDoutside]

6. It might help if you watched that video again. A particular team

and their coach took the knee. When the camera panned to the left, the other team and coaches, who happened to be standing, contained black and white players. For all we know, this was a personal decision by the one team, without informing the other team. In any case, politicizing kids is dubious in my opinion.

[tazkcmo]

7. I focused on the good, the children.

Not the bad. Peace.

[Kath2]

8. This 59 year old white woman is with you!

We should all be kneeling or sitting through it in solidarity.

You are right. Clueless and passing on ignorance to children.

[KT2000]

2. Yes!

That is so great. Just think of the discussions they had about doing this - true character building.

[Kath2]

9. Exactly.

I feel proud of all of them.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

4. Helmets (hats) off to the coach!

In so many of our states this kind of civic education has been stripped from our schools.

Look at some of the kids looking over at their coach. He has taught them about pride in sticking up for ones beliefs, and they know they can look to him for support when needed.

[L. Coyote]

5. A nation built on centuries of genocide and slavery, Natives still in concentration camps, .....

that's the view of the good old USA from the outside, privileged white imperialists raping the world. Time to have that discusssion and realization in the USA too.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Their parents shouldn't let them play...too much evidence

of brain damage.

[joanbarnes]

11. tearing up