This is the new strong gesture, hidden behind an apparent weakness : put a knee on the ground in response to the violence. Since the death of George Floyd, we no longer count her media appearances, Joe Biden to Marcus Thuram. The supreme consecration, it is the same “hashtagué” : #takeaknee. A gesture which, we are told, should Colin Kaepernick, the courageous quarterback which, in 2016, had refused to stand during the anthem to denounce the police killings against Blacks. But he was back, in reality, much further : to the Trojan war ! In The Iliad, life…
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