Laurence Fox refuses to take the knee in solidarity with Black Lives Matter due to ‘master-servant’ connotations

metro.co.uk:

Laurence Fox has refused to kneel in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protesters due to its ‘master-servant’ connotations.The 42-year-old White Lines actor is ‘uncomfortable’ with the action and would only kneel for proposals, the queen or for God.Discussing the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the actor explained: ‘These men died on the beaches on Normandy so people are free to do what they want and if you want to take a knee, you can take a knee, you just won’t find me doing it.‘I’m not a particularly religious man but the times I would kneel are to propose, before god or before the queen.

It’s a master-servant relationship that comes with taking a knee that I’m uncomfortable with.’He went on to tell talkRADIO that it’s just.