10-Year-Old Boy Scout Wins Praise After Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance

[StrictlyRockers]

"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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[dameatball]

1. Good for him! The trolls will be out and about soon however. Hell with them.

[CottonBear]

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]

3. He did his parents proud.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Well,

there goes his White House invitation for burgers and fries.............

Way to so, kid!!!

[Peacetrain]

5. Well I am in tears...

Good job young man...good job

[okaawhatever]

6. What a beautiful gesture. Thank you Liam Holmes. nt

[MrScorpio]

7. At least he's not a black athlete

Otherwise, he’d be crucified by now.

[Boomerproud]

8. Yes. I applaud the boy and hope he and his family

will be safe but if he was not white...well...