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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10-Year-Old Boy Scout Wins Praise After Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance
"Inspired and Inspiring": 10-Year-Old Boy Scout Wins Praise After Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance"This is why Colin Kaepernick's work is so powerful. A 10-year-old white Boy Scout from North Carolina taking a stand against discrimination."
A 10-year-old Boy Scout won the praise of a local mayor as well as online observers Friday when the story of his decision to peacefully protest during the Pledge of Allegiance went viral.
Liam Holmes and his Cub Scout Pack had been invited to recite the pledge at a city council meeting at City Hall in Durham, North Carolina on Monday. After a discussion with his father about professional athletes who have taken a knee in recent years to protest police brutality and the police shootings of unarmed black Americans, Holmes decided to stage his own demonstration.
"What I did was took a knee against racial discrimination, which is basically [when] people are mean to other people of different colors," Holmes told CBS 17, an affiliate station in Durham.
Holmes' father expressed surprise and pride in an interview with the station, while Mayor Steve Schewel let the room know right away that the boy's protest was welcomed at City Hall.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/08/inspired-and-inspiring-10-year-old-boy-scout-wins-praise-after-taking-knee-during
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10-Year-Old Boy Scout Wins Praise After Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance (Original Post)
StrictlyRockers
Feb 2019
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dameatball
(7,411 posts)1. Good for him! The trolls will be out and about soon however. Hell with them.
CottonBear
(21,598 posts)2. As a Cub Scout leader, I'm very impressed with this Cub Scout
Liam Holmes is a fine young man. He has taken the Cub Scout Oath and the Cub Scout Law to heart and put them into action.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,110 posts)3. He did his parents proud.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)4. Well,
there goes his White House invitation for burgers and fries.............
Way to so, kid!!!
Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)5. Well I am in tears...
Good job young man...good job
okaawhatever
(9,479 posts)6. What a beautiful gesture. Thank you Liam Holmes. nt
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)7. At least he's not a black athlete
Otherwise, hed be crucified by now.
Boomerproud
(7,985 posts)8. Yes. I applaud the boy and hope he and his family
will be safe but if he was not white...well...