In a paradoxically symbolic sense, can taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem actually represent the gesture to stand up?
During his video conference yesterday, Kyler Murray announced, without one iota of hesitation, that this season he will be kneeling during the national anthem. He summed up his raison d’être by asserting:
“I’ll be kneeling, I stand for what’s right and that’s the bottom line. I call it like I see it. What’s been going on is completely wrong. I will definitely be taking a knee.”
To Murray, kneeling = “standing up for what’s right.