Within recent years, the left-wing activist group known as Black Lives Matter has been facing a lot of scandals.
Some of the recent scandals involve ambiguity over its handling of donation dollars and questions about how the group has really impacted social justice.
This from conservativecardinal.com.
One of the key ideologies of BLM, however, is that kneeling should occur during the National Anthem.
People who refuse to do this or push back in any way are often accused of being racists or bigots.
In Virginia, one college soccer player, Kierstien Hening, came under fire for declining to kneel in support of Black Lives Matter.
Allegations from Hening have since emerged that she was benched, singled out, and harassed for her choice.
According to Hot Air:
As a result, the college soccer player is now filing a lawsuit against her coach, Charles Adair.
The following is what we as Americans, and especially We the People who are Patriotic Conservative Americans should know about this situation concerning Kierstien Hening:
According to Hening’s versions of events:
[H]er soccer coach not only expected her to kneel before games were played, but he also wanted the back of the team’s jerseys to have a list of individuals who passed away amid confrontations with law enforcement.
After pushing back against this, Hening was called racist, targeted via social media, and eventually kicked off her team.
Kierstien Hening has won a major decision allowing her to litigate her free speech claims against Virginia Tech. https://t.co/KzLTzyTMtg I wrote earlier that I believed that she would prevail over the threshold challenge to her lawsuit… https://t.co/L0GWeoeDk2
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) December 11, 2022
As a result of this, Hening is now suing Adair on the basis that he breached her First Amendment rights.
In Virginia, a judge recently determined that Hening’s litigation can proceed to trial where she’ll have an opportunity to make her case before a jury.
Unfortunately, this sort of incident is not the first time that someone on a college campus has been singled out for failing to fall in line with the political left.
In the months ahead, Americans will hear more about this litigation in Virginia and whether or not Hening is able to win in court.
However, this entire situation poses another PR nightmare for BLM:
[A]lbeit not as great as some of their other scandals [however] many Americans, like Hening, do have disagreements with certain aspects of the movement.
Still can’t believe last year was how it was. We really witnessed “Black Lives Matter” painted on streets, politicians kneeling while wearing Kente cloth as a show of “solidarity” to Black Americans, and tone deafness to the demands of us as a people.
— meenah vaivao ☭🇦🇸🇯🇲. (@westindiedai) November 1, 2021
A fair number of people who don’t feel comfortable kneeling before the flag and/or the National Anthem have their reasons as well.
To write these folks off as racists who should be excluded from society is not only inaccurate, but also doesn’t make a very compelling case for BLM.
