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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
TAKE A KNEE, AMERICA!
The irony is that Colin KAEPERNICK is not even on the football field. Others are. Yet, the spirit of protest that he has come to symbolize has acquired a life of its own away from him. It has reconnected us to the knee-taking of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and of Ralph David Abernathy and their as yet unfinished work of spiritual, economic redemption for black and poor people.
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