Dominic Raab for suggesting Game Of Thones is responsible for taking the knee. The Foreign Secretary came under fire for claiming he wouldn’t ‘take the knee’ in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and incorrectly commenting that it derived from the hit HBO series.
The gesture has been used during anti-racism demonstrations across the world, sparked by the death of George Floyd, to express solidarity against racial injustice.NFL star Colin Kaepernick was seen getting down on one knee as the US national anthem played before games in 2016 and footballers recently marked the return of the Premier League by taking the knee to show their support for Black Lives Matter.
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