{"id":24767,"date":"2023-01-15T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=24767"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:20:19","slug":"taketwoknees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/taketwoknees\/","title":{"rendered":"TakeTwoKnees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TakeTwoKnees\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wM1G-Iti7Ns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Mcgill   \u2022 May 28, 2020 This \u201cnormal\u201d isn\u2019t new. It&#8217;s just easier to see what&#8217;s going on now that some of the horrific hate crimes that happen every day make the national news. Complacency is rampant, and hiding behind privilege is obviously just as bad. If there were hashtag movements in the last century during America\u2019s \u2018good old days\u2019 one could have easily been \u2018BlackLivesDefinitelyDontMatter.\u2019 Few would have batted an eye. Earlier this year, before the pandemic, I performed in Birmingham, Alabama and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The challenging history of those places speaks for itself, but in those two trips, I met some of the nicest people that you\u2019ll ever meet in this country. I also pondered how far we\u2019ve come and how far we still have to go in terms of treating everyone with respect and decency. We live alongside that reality all across America. What the news this week and most weeks of my life demonstrates, however, is that Black lives didn\u2019t matter in our glorified past, and still don\u2019t matter that much today. Flashback then with me to when a football player attempted a protest, bringing to our attention the murder of black people. People said: &#8216;Let\u2019s not politicize sports,\u2019 and \u2018all lives matter.\u2019 Now add to that list Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, two men who clearly didn\u2019t deserve their fates. Now we don\u2019t have sports to distract us, and we\u2019re mostly at home. Now\u2019s the time to protest. Can we say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/almblm2\">#ALMBLM2<\/a> (All lives matter and black lives matter as well)? Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/howaboutnow\">#HowAboutNow<\/a>? Or maybe the best thing to share is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/icareaboutblacklives\">#ICareAboutBlackLives<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/icareaboutblacklives\">#ICareAboutBlackLives<\/a> is a pretty innocent statement, so if that\u2019s considered radical we\u2019ll have really shined a light on the problem. So join me. Pick one of these potent hashtags, or all of them. And this time let\u2019s try and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/taketwoknees\">#TakeTwoKnees<\/a> in the struggle for justice and decency. No guidelines. Your message, your voice, your mission, your focus. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/taketwoknees\">#TakeTwoKnees<\/a> for what you believe in. Pass it along. Let\u2019s try this again and put a spotlight on this evil. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/taketwoknees\">#TakeTwoKnees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Mcgill \u2022 May 28, 2020 This \u201cnormal\u201d isn\u2019t new. It&#8217;s just easier to see what&#8217;s going on now that some of the horrific hate crimes that happen every day make the national news. Complacency is rampant, and hiding behind privilege is obviously just as bad. If there were hashtag&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/taketwoknees\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24768,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24767\/revisions\/24768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}