Posted on 10/28/2021 6:40:54 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
South African cricketer Quinton de Kock dropped out of a World Cup game after the team was ordered to take the knee for Black Lives Matter (BLM), but has since felt obliged to issue a humiliating public recantation of his actions.
Quinton de Kock, who is white, chose to withdrawn from a game against the West Indies after his sport’s national governing body, Cricket South Africa, ordered players to “take a knee” before all of its scheduled matches.
De Kock felt the need to reverse his stance entirely on Thursday, however, in an abject public statement reported by Sky News.
“I would like to start by saying sorry to my teammates and the fans back home,” the athlete grovelled, pleading that he now understood “the importance of standing against racism” — by kneeling down — and “the responsibility of us as players to set an example”.
“If me taking a knee helps to educate others, and makes the lives of others better, I am more than happy to do so,” he claimed.
“I did not, in any way, mean to disrespect anyone by not playing against West Indies, especially the West Indian team themselves. Maybe some people don’t understand that we were just hit with this on Tuesday morning, on the way to a game,” he explained.
Prior his perhaps understandable capitulation in the face of possible de facto expulsion from the World Cup and the effective end of his international career, de Kock had received support for his decision to literally take a stand from other corners of the British Commonwealth, including Great Britain itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Black British campaigner and former Brexit Party candidate Ike Ijeh, for example, had told talkRADIO that he “would never take the knee” himself, viewing it as a “pointless performative political gesture that will not in any way advance race relations.”
“I think this is a terrible, appalling decision” by Cricket South Africa, Ijeh said, adding that “this kind of coercion has no place anywhere, particularly it has no place in sports.”
Quinton de Kock.....A good Belgian name and possibly a relative. Good for him!
I had a discussion with someone more liberal recently.
I told him that I believe that black lives matter, lower case letters, but that I cannot support the Black Lives Matter organization.
He parroted some drivel about how Black Lives Matter speaks for all black people, not just the Marxists who started that organization, etc. He said they were a big tent, and you don’t have to fully support Black Lives Matter to support them.
This guy on the cricket team was pulled aside and told to grovel. I think we all know that.
Make that man Prime Minister !
<< De Kock felt the need to reverse his stance entirely >>
De Kock was de-balled.
He should have stood there while the others took a knee.
That would have said it all without having to say a word.
What’s the point of this story? Cricketeer takes courageous position against kneeling.
Then later, nah, never mind. Happy to do it.
Hmmmmm. BLM can go suck rocks. And this guy knows it.
That anyone can be made to adhere to the leftists' agenda.
It is amazing how much pressure can be brought to bear on a person; and how few can stand against it.
The temptation to compromise and go along with the crowd is powerful. This gives us an inkling on how difficult it was, and will be, to oppose a lynch mob.
A spine is a terrible thing to waste.
Unfortunately, this is old news, he caved into the woke mob and now says he will take a knee....so sad.
Never bow to the race grievance pimps or their multiracial hoards of zombies.
“cricketer”
Lol
Quinton de Kock
I think thats what the girl that turned lesbian said.
Apartheid is back.
Why the heck not? If he was a man he’d be playing baseball!
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