{"id":934098,"date":"2021-10-28T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=934098"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:43:48","slug":"cricketer-drops-out-of-world-cup-game-after-team-ordered-to-kneel-for-blm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cricketer-drops-out-of-world-cup-game-after-team-ordered-to-kneel-for-blm\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricketer Drops Out of World Cup Game After Team Ordered to Kneel for BLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcricketer-drops-out-of-world-cup-game-after-team-ordered-to-kneel-for-blm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=934098&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1288411600-e1635437003154-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">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.<\/p>\n<p>Quinton de Kock, who is white, chose to withdrawn from a game against the West Indies after his sport\u2019s national governing body, Cricket South Africa, ordered players to \u201ctake a knee\u201d before all of its scheduled matches. Previously, the decision to kneel had been up to individual players, but the CSA decided that the sight of some players kneeling while others stood had \u201ccreated an unintended perception of disparity or lack of support for the initiative\u201d and took their choice in the matter away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>De Kock felt the need to reverse his stance entirely on Thursday, however, in an abject public statement <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/quinton-de-kock-south-african-cricketer-apologises-for-refusing-to-take-knee-and-insists-he-is-not-a-racist-12453400\">reported<\/a> by Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to start by saying sorry to my teammates and the fans back home,\u201d the athlete grovelled, pleading that he now understood&nbsp;\u201cthe importance of standing against racism\u201d \u2014 by kneeling down \u2014 and \u201cthe responsibility of us as players to set an example\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf me taking a knee helps to educate others, and makes the lives of others better, I am more than happy to do so,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI 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\u2019t understand that we were just hit with this on Tuesday morning, on the way to a game,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps trying to maintain some semblance of dignity, he added that&nbsp;\u201cIf I was racist, I could easily have taken the knee and lied, which is wrong and doesn\u2019t build a better society\u201d \u2014 although taking a knee is in fact what he will now be doing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.249240121581\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cricketer Quinton de Kock has pulled out of South Africa&#8217;s T20 World Cup match against the West Indies after refusing to &#8220;take the knee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigner Ike Ijeh: &#8220;Taking the knee is a pointless performative political gesture. I would never take the knee.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVKev?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TVKev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nq4pCcLM5N\">pic.twitter.com\/Nq4pCcLM5N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkRADIO\/status\/1453408620654252041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Black British campaigner and former Brexit Party candidate Ike Ijeh, for example, had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkRADIO\/status\/1453408620654252041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1453408620654252041%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">told<\/a> talkRADIO that he \u201cwould never take the knee\u201d himself, viewing it as a \u201cpointless performative political gesture that will not in any way advance race relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a terrible, appalling decision\u201d by Cricket South Africa, Ijeh said, adding that \u201cthis kind of coercion has no place anywhere, particularly it has no place in sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9870967741935\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">South Africa Cricket Players Ordered to \u2018Take the Knee\u2019 Before Matches <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DQEfKQIWdb\">https:\/\/t.co\/DQEfKQIWdb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1453006774748033039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}