Two men take knee during national anthem at Trump's White House ceremony

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2018/06/05/man-kneels-national-anthem-donald-trump-white-house-nfl/674505002/

WASHINGTON — Instead of welcoming the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House on Tuesday, President Trump held an event to "celebrate America" and play the national anthem.

And, according to a video and photos posted to social media, at least two of the attendees at that celebration decided to take a knee.

Link to tweet

[manor321]

1. Resist! This is awesome. n/t

[kacekwl]

2. Very courageous of them.

Thank You patriots.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. What would have been wonderful

is if it had become a wave and when the PGIC looked out across the lawn, all he saw were bent knees.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

4. For solidarity--All--NFL players and White America need to take a knee against racism. Basta!

Harry Belafonte: To realize Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, white America needs to change course
Nation Apr 06, 2018 06:20 PM EDT
By — PBS NewsHour

Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat down with one of King's closest friends, artist and activist Harry Belafonte, in his home


Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Ok

So, what do you think it will take today to make his dream of the beloved community a reality?

Harry Belafonte: Until white America begins or even decides to identify a moral course of history, I don't think anything is going to happen. I think America will self-destruct.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault: But the civil rights movement was black and white together.

Harry Belafonte: Yes.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault: That's not the case anymore?

Harry Belafonte: That's the case, but it's not the fact.

The case is that we have to fix it. The fact is that it's not fixable if white folks don't decide to change their course of conduct.

The only thing left for black people to do is to burn it down. We have been lynched. We have been murdered.

And, if you look around, never before in my 91 years of history as an American have I ever seen the nation more racially divisive than it is at this very moment, including the days of the Ku Klux Klan and the segregation laws of the South.