While driving my kid to school, I tried to break down this whole flag / knee controversy as simply as I could –
“When there is no milk for a babe, you console her hunger by distracting her with a bobo.
There is no nourishment, but it’s soothing and they forget they’re hungry.
You take her bobo?
She will cry until she gets milk.
There never has been “liberty & justice for all” in this country.
Ever.
The flag & anthem console White America’s hunger for “liberty & justice for all” without actually delivering it.
It feels good, it’s comforting. Saluting the flag and singing this loyalty oath for schoolchildren makes many believe it’s actually true.
#takeaknee is taking away White America’s bobo.
White America is inconsolable today because the loss of it’s distraction (reverence for a fantasy America) wakes it to it’s long, (self-imposed) famine for “liberty & justice for all.”
And they don’t like it.
Every person that #takesaknee, whomever they are, just want the false words “liberty & justice for all” to be a reality.
They want White Americans to have Milk (truth) not a Bobo (falsehood)
One nourishes the body, the other does not.
Where this analogy breaks down of course is any infant instinctively would rather the real thing than a substitute.
White America just wants it’s bobo back.
He got it.
Do you?
#takethebobo #takeaknee #blm
art credit-Billy Bob Teeth