And gave college students about the only reason they can think of for taking a knee. “The insight to be gained from this controversy is how deeply the anti-American messages conveyed in recent years in schools and the media have penetrated the national soul,” S. T. Karnick of the Heartland Institute writes. “That is the real source of the great political and cultural divide that has manifested with increasing intensity in the United States in the past dozen years.”
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