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Australian traditional poetry, Colin Kaepernick, NFL players taking the knee, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet
You want me to acknowledge that I’m blessed?
I’m sorry, but I’d rather take the knee.
My country is amongst the very best?
Well that’s a claim with which I disagree.
Oh sure, I’m pampered, overpaid and free,
But man, my great great granny was a slave!
So I am disadvantaged – can’t you see?
How else would you expect me to behave?
I’m proud! And kneeling demonstrates how brave
I am; I feel no loyalty to their song,
Or to this shameful flag they proudly wave.
To stand with hand on heart – that would be wrong!
Down on one knee – that’s how I choose to fight!
(One wonders who he thinks won him this right.)
dnobrienpoetry 
The real motivation was that he sucked as a player and could only get attention with his goofy political stunt.
I smell a book in the wind – maybe even a movie.
Good one. You’ve captured the irony of protesting the emblems that stand for the freedom given and protected that gives on the right to protest.
I doubt if irony is their strong point.