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'Teacher of the Year' kneels during anthem at college football championship attended by Trump
ABC "News" ^ | January 16, 2020 | By Ella Torres

Posted on 01/16/2020 1:09:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

During a ceremony honoring the 2019 "Teachers of the Year," one in particular stood out.

The honoree from Minnesota, Kelly Holstine, chose to kneel during the national anthem at the NCAA football championship game on Monday, where the ceremony took place, "to stand up for marginalized and oppressed people," according to a tweet she wrote, which included a photograph of her kneeling.

"Like many before, I respectfully kneeled during Nat’l Anthem because, 'No one is free until we are all free,'" she wrote, referencing former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and citing a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Holstine, an English and language arts teacher at Tokata Learning Center in Shakopee, has been outspoken about her activism before.

She lead a TED Talk in October 2019 titled "Educators must be more than allies."

In her speech, she advocated for teachers to be willing to leave their comfort zones and "stand up for all of the human beings who are being marginalized or oppressed."

"Allies are wonderful and we need them, but it is not enough for educators to just be allies," she said. "We need them to be advocates too."

In April 2019, she was also one of two "Teachers of the Year" who skipped the White House ceremony, according to The Hill.

"The words and practices and policies of this administration have been filled with a lot of hate toward the LGBTQ community, so I didn't feel comfortable in that environment," Holstine told The Hill.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anthem; education; homosexualagenda; jackwagon; minnesota; socialism; socialjustice; sports; woke
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At the risk of being charged with assault, I would have smacked her on the back of her shaved head if I were standing next to her.........


21 posted on 01/16/2020 1:24:20 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: brownsfan

well I listened to the cheers for our Pres. and nation on various videos.....one person kneeling as she did meant asolutely nothing there whatsoever. The crowd was on fire for Trump and our flag!..and everyone knew it!


22 posted on 01/16/2020 1:24:21 PM PST by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I respectfully kneeled during Nat’l Anthem

An oxymoron.


23 posted on 01/16/2020 1:25:09 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Virtue Signalling White Liberal - bump for later.....


24 posted on 01/16/2020 1:25:10 PM PST by indthkr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

This thing has no business being around anyone else’s children, let alone “teaching.”


25 posted on 01/16/2020 1:25:19 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: The Toll

Why is she culturally appropriating that baby behind her?


26 posted on 01/16/2020 1:25:44 PM PST by The Toll
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To: JBW1949

Nikes on dykes. Yikes !!!


27 posted on 01/16/2020 1:26:42 PM PST by IgnaciKat (RIME)
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To: BatGuano

If you are a “leader,” you lead. If you are former leader, you have “led!”

Lead is a very heavy element, commonly used in sinkers for fishing tackle or bullets for guns.

Most of us have stopped use of lead in paints and water pipes.


28 posted on 01/16/2020 1:28:30 PM PST by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was her wife at the game too?


29 posted on 01/16/2020 1:29:49 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Awwwww. It looks SOOOOOO opressed.


30 posted on 01/16/2020 1:29:51 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: IgnaciKat

LOL!!!!! That’s good!!!


31 posted on 01/16/2020 1:34:05 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Teachers were all patriotic when I went to school back in the 50s and 60s. And the schools promoted patriotism, sportsmanship, morality and what they called ‘good clean wholesome fun.’ Hatred for America, disrespect for our flag, national anthem or pledge was unheard of. Homosexual perverts were not allowed to prey on our children.

We’ve come a long way, baby. Unfortunately, mostly down hill.


32 posted on 01/16/2020 1:35:32 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a silly bunt.


33 posted on 01/16/2020 1:36:01 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: JBW1949
Still waiting on an actual list. Not their perceived interpretation.😳
34 posted on 01/16/2020 1:36:10 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seriously, what a douche bag.

Pardon my French.


35 posted on 01/16/2020 1:36:32 PM PST by CaptainPhilFan
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To: Jim Robinson
We’ve come a long way, baby. Unfortunately, mostly down hill.

Amen.

36 posted on 01/16/2020 1:36:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: The Toll

You are 100% wrong. I distinctly heard her “moo”.


37 posted on 01/16/2020 1:37:24 PM PST by alstewartfan (Always someone out there...to take your place. Just in a flash you're yesterday's face. Al Stewart)
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To: Jim Robinson

it is called baby boomers, they will be remembered in history as the single most destructive human generation ever born.


38 posted on 01/16/2020 1:37:48 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: myerson
Looks like another mentally derranged leftist activist 'desperately seerching for,

attention' somewhere, Anywhere...it goes with her being a dike!


39 posted on 01/16/2020 1:38:02 PM PST by caww
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To: moovova

If I had been standing near her, I would’ve had a hard time refraining from giving her a swift kick in the arse.


40 posted on 01/16/2020 1:40:15 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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