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Stevie Wonder just took a knee at the 2017 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park.
"Tonight, I'm taking a knee for America" https://t.co/98Hwn0KXgU
Tanuki
(14,931 posts)Skittles
(153,314 posts)Stevie is a national treasure
GP6971
(31,275 posts)he probably will.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,485 posts)where Cheetolini won't stoop to.
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,854 posts)brettdale
(12,390 posts)Isn't he wonderful.
Just a great sweet man, Stevie is.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)to a party that Stevie was at. They sang and smoked some joints. My friend said he is a very nice and good person and was a pleasure to have met him.
C Moon
(12,227 posts)Neema
(1,151 posts)over meeting. Like weeping and acting like a total fool. I don't know what it is. I just love him.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I mean he was famous but still in the very beginning. I think they might have been to stoned to freak out.
Gothmog
(145,968 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,856 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The president did not anticipate Goodell, several NFL owners, LeBron, Stevie Wonder, and MLB players all coming out on the side of Kaepernick.
The president BADLY misjudged this one.
Mr. 27.5 (LeBron's name for him) is going to back down. Or his presidency will break down over this.
bigtree
(86,021 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)People don't kneel to rulers, but to ideas.
This symbol of unity could become very important, very quickly.
iluvtennis
(19,912 posts)...to bad it didn't do so after the Hollywood Access tape and all of Don the Con's other atrocities during the election cycle,,,but, I'll take now.
NotASurfer
(2,157 posts)Where a time traveler was rattling off humanity's great composers and included Wonder among them?
NBachers
(17,191 posts)Upthevibe
(8,108 posts)sheshe2
(84,072 posts)calimary
(81,608 posts)I find it extremely difficult to see why people are getting upset at the sight of an athlete falling on one knee.
I've never met a woman who didn't somehow secretly hope to be proposed to, that way. Including myself (my husband did that). I see NOTHING wrong or disrespectful about adopting such a posture. NOTHING. It is courtly, reverent, elegant, and a position of humility and of showing honor and respect.
What? They'd rather see a downward-turned head and a fist in the air like two US Olympic athletes offered, a few decades back?
1968 Olympics Black Power salute - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute
I think this whole uproar is absolute bullshit.