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Stevie Wonder taking a knee (Original Post) Lotusflower70 Sep 2017 OP
A good and honorable man Tanuki Sep 2017 #1
I DARE Donald Fucking Trump to trash Mr. Wonder Skittles Sep 2017 #2
But we all know GP6971 Sep 2017 #4
There is no level Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2017 #17
k&r, nt AnotherDreamWeaver Sep 2017 #3
Isn't he Lovely brettdale Sep 2017 #5
Years and year and year ago my blind friend went Doreen Sep 2017 #6
Great story! C Moon Sep 2017 #15
OMG, Stevie would be one of the only people I would completely lose my shit Neema Sep 2017 #21
I think this was far enough back that he was just becoming a star. Doreen Sep 2017 #22
Yeah for Stevie Wonder Gothmog Sep 2017 #7
'Fingertips' panader0 Sep 2017 #8
Thank you. I enjoyed this bigly. Midnight Writer Sep 2017 #20
The president has misjudged America on this - kneeling is going to break him sharedvalues Sep 2017 #9
k&r bigtree Sep 2017 #10
So cool, that in America... Cracklin Charlie Sep 2017 #11
I agree...I so much love how the country is coming together on this... iluvtennis Sep 2017 #13
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek TNG NotASurfer Sep 2017 #12
Something about Stevie doing this just hits me hard right in the middle of my soul. NBachers Sep 2017 #14
K & R................. n/t Go Stevie! Upthevibe Sep 2017 #16
That's what friends are for sheshe2 Sep 2017 #18
Can I just point out one other thing? calimary Sep 2017 #19

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
6. Years and year and year ago my blind friend went
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 11:33 PM
Sep 2017

to a party that Stevie was at. They sang and smoked some joints. My friend said he is a very nice and good person and was a pleasure to have met him.

Neema

(1,151 posts)
21. OMG, Stevie would be one of the only people I would completely lose my shit
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 10:10 PM
Sep 2017

over meeting. Like weeping and acting like a total fool. I don't know what it is. I just love him.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
22. I think this was far enough back that he was just becoming a star.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 10:55 PM
Sep 2017

I mean he was famous but still in the very beginning. I think they might have been to stoned to freak out.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
9. The president has misjudged America on this - kneeling is going to break him
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 11:54 PM
Sep 2017

The president did not anticipate Goodell, several NFL owners, LeBron, Stevie Wonder, and MLB players all coming out on the side of Kaepernick.

The president BADLY misjudged this one.

Mr. 27.5 (LeBron's name for him) is going to back down. Or his presidency will break down over this.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
11. So cool, that in America...
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 12:17 AM
Sep 2017

People don't kneel to rulers, but to ideas.

This symbol of unity could become very important, very quickly.

iluvtennis

(19,863 posts)
13. I agree...I so much love how the country is coming together on this...
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 12:25 AM
Sep 2017

...to bad it didn't do so after the Hollywood Access tape and all of Don the Con's other atrocities during the election cycle,,,but, I'll take now.

NotASurfer

(2,151 posts)
12. Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek TNG
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 12:22 AM
Sep 2017

Where a time traveler was rattling off humanity's great composers and included Wonder among them?

calimary

(81,322 posts)
19. Can I just point out one other thing?
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 01:08 AM
Sep 2017

I find it extremely difficult to see why people are getting upset at the sight of an athlete falling on one knee.

I've never met a woman who didn't somehow secretly hope to be proposed to, that way. Including myself (my husband did that). I see NOTHING wrong or disrespectful about adopting such a posture. NOTHING. It is courtly, reverent, elegant, and a position of humility and of showing honor and respect.

What? They'd rather see a downward-turned head and a fist in the air like two US Olympic athletes offered, a few decades back?

1968 Olympics Black Power salute - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute


I think this whole uproar is absolute bullshit.

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