Heck, they can’t MAKE me kneel. And they say it is voluntary.
I kneel only to God, and if I ever have to, to my wife if I ever need her to forgive me.
But not this, never. I am just disgusted. I don’t bring my politics into work with me, and I feel betrayed and angered that they would do so.
Good. Don’t
Ask them why the local Minneapolis authorities mostly black, from whom we have not heard a peep, did not fire this horrible cop with a very bad Record including other deaths.
Read David Horowitz from yesterday
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/david_horowitzs_thumbsup_for_trump_.html
Not sure if it’s possible, but in your shoes I’d take PTO that day to not expose myself to the lunacy. I’m just a few years away from retirement myself, and am not starting over somewhere that might prove to be even worse so I understand your need to stay employed there.
My friend, welcome to Cancel Culture.
If you refuse to participate you will be branded as part of the structural problem, then it will escalate to you being tagged as a racist and pack mentality takes over. You could be ‘ doxxed’, condemned and fired, Also your wife and family. It’s like Mao’s cultural revolution.
In my small town neighborhood facebook forum, the housewives and millenials turned Bolshevik have taken down and ruined 2 local businessmen and their families, in one week, one for supporting the equality of all lives, the other for calling looters “ animals” . They are being personally and professionally ruined. Both tried to apologize but sharks only smell more blood.
Stay safe, friend. They may make your silence a social offense, but they don’t own your soul. Eventually tough times will pass.