The “take a knee” movement crossed the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday morning, as Hertha Berlin’s players and coaches kneeled before their Bundesliga soccer game against visiting Schalke in a call for “tolerance and responsibility.”Hertha BSC stands for tolerance and responsibility! #TakeAKnee #hahohe pic.twitter.com/spZvRSGVxQ — Hertha Berlin (@HerthaBSC_EN) October 14, 2017NFL players, as well as other U.S. athletes, have been taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem for some time now, but Hertha Berlin is thought to be the first European soccer team to do the same. The German national anthem is not usually played before Bundesliga games, and was not on Saturday. For a tolerant Berlin, both now and forevermore.”Hertha Berlin features players from 10 nations and plays in a city with a sizable immigrant population, with nearly 1 in 5 residents being foreign nationals. We stand against racism and we will always fight this behavior as a team, as a city.

Source: Washington Post October 14, 2017 15:31 UTC