'Teacher of the Year' kneels during anthem at college football championship attended by Trump

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

During a ceremony honoring the 2019 "Teachers of the Year," one in particular stood out.

The honoree from Minnesota, Kelly Holstine, chose to kneel during the national anthem at the NCAA football championship game on Monday, where the ceremony took place, "to stand up for marginalized and oppressed people," according to a tweet she wrote, which included a photograph of her kneeling.

"Like many before, I respectfully kneeled during Nat’l Anthem because, 'No one is free until we are all free,'" she wrote, referencing former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and citing a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Link to tweet

In April 2019, she was also one of two "Teachers of the Year" who skipped the White House ceremony, according to The Hill.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/teacher-year-kneels-anthem-college-football-championship-attended/story?id=68326303&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_three_posts_card_hed

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Awesome person. Has more value in her fingernail than the entire rump and kushner families combined

[Maraya1969]

25. Anyone with Twitter she needs some support.

Sticking this here so it will be seen

[NCProgressive]

2. Extremely courageous

Well done Ms. Holstine

[Cornus]

3. Well Done!

Wish there were more like her.

[keithbvadu2]

4. 2017 - Teachers of the year had the 'honor' of singing happy birthday to Melania.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/01/melania-trump-welcomed-teachers-to-a-white-house-ceremony-called-a-disgrace/

2017 - Teachers of the year had the 'honor' of singing happy birthday to Melania.

[llmart]

19. Thanks for the link.

I just read the article and how disgusting. The way those two treated the families was so disrespectful, but of course why am I surprised?

I'm also not surprised that the teacher was from a charter school. Everything they do is to promote the GOP agenda.

[Karadeniz]

5. You go, girl!!!❤❤❤❤

[Farmer-Rick]

6. I find it amazing that Malaria Trump thinks she deserves to be honored for....nothing.

Her mispronounced, plagiarized "Be Best" program is all about her being bullied; never about helping other's children or other Slovenian sex workers.

She dresses like a person who has no sense of subtly or appropriate decorum, always emphasizing her 50 year old breasts, plastic face, and tightly pulled back eyes. Just because she got a known whoremonger and money launderer to marry her does not make her anything special. She could be special if she did something bedsides try to grift off the American people. But that's too much effort.

She's so awful. Thank god the American people, especially evangelicals, are all so accepting of female sex workers.

[CaptYossarian]

12. Her breasts aren't a day over 15--right in Donald's wheelhouse.

[Maxheader]

7. Thats why...

She is teacher of the year...

[pazzyanne]

8. So proud of our Teacher of the Year!

[warmfeet]

9. Excellent!

I would not be nearly as cordial to the orange shit stain.

If given the opportunity, I would take a dump down orange donnies throat.

[CaptYossarian]

13. Didn't he used to pay for that?

[canetoad]

10. Kick and a big rec

Kelly Holstine, right, shown with her wife Emma Freeman, left. Photo by Emma Freeman

[CaptYossarian]

14. Since Parkland, I notice he has issues with young women named Emma.

Just as he does with all young women.

[JudyM]

16. They're adorable! Sweet and strong.

[PatrickforO]

11. That took some guts. n/t

[magicarpet]

15. Someone kneeled at a football game ?

I am amazed trDump did not stomp out immediately. Go back to his golden toilet, take one of his royal dumps, and send out 1,000 tweets about commies who kneel.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. I notice Melania wore her garbage sack dress

Guess she had a prescient sense that something was going to occur to make the Donald shit himself.

[SCantiGOP]

24. It looked like a raincoat

which doesn’t make a lot of sense for an indoor arena.

[whttevrr]

18. Another picture

[GoneOffShore]

20. The responses on her Twitter feed is a cesspool. Kind of like FreeReptiles on steroids.

[joost5]

21. The ultimate tragedy

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[blueinredohio]

22. Good for her.

That's the kind of teacher I wish my kids would have had. And my grandkids would have now.

[SKKY]

23. Respect.

[Kurt V.]

26. shero.

[tulipsandroses]

27. Kudos to her for standing up/kneeling for justice and equality

Trump and his followers are a disgrace

[VarryOn]

28. I admire her bravery...

This issue had died down in recent months. We need it prominent as an issue for the 2020 election.