{"id":11058,"date":"2019-02-09T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2019-02-09T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:07:18","slug":"inspired-and-inspiring-10-year-old-boy-scout-wins-praise-after-taking-a-knee-during-pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/09\/inspired-and-inspiring-10-year-old-boy-scout-wins-praise-after-taking-a-knee-during-pledge-of-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"“Inspired and Inspiring”: 10-Year-Old Boy Scout Wins Praise After Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 08, 2019 by Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Julia Conley, staff writer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ten-year-old Liam Holmes of Durham, North Carolina knelt in protest during the Pledge of Allegiance at a public event this week. (Photo: @LinseyDavis\/Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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,<\/em> an affiliate station in Durham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n