UK minister says taking the knee is ‘subjugation’, from Game of Thrones
Aston Villa and Sheffield United football players taking a knee in front of empty stands ahead of the English Premier League match in Birmingham, Britain, yesterday. – EPA pic, June 18, 2020.
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today sparked mockery and dismay by suggesting the anti-racism protest of taking the knee was a symbol of “subjugation” that originated with Game of Thrones. Premier League footballers took a knee yesterday evening in solidarity with demonstrations across the world sparked by the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by US police.
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