The government - the people employed to lead the country - only a couple of months ago came to the conclusion that there is no systematic racism in the U.K.. (spoiler alert, I don’t agree with that conclusion, it can’t possibly be true even in a near perfect world).
The most important people in the country, think that no such thing exists (I’m not going to pretend to know what the report covered) - yet just look at baby mortality and black babies over index in terms of such tragedies. I’m not going to speculate why, could be genetics, could be lack of trust in the public services, it could be that white people get better care and attention, who knows. Long and short of it, the vast majority of people would probably suspect such systematic racism does exist in some form, even minor.
It’s a strange phenomenon to me that football is more emotive than what the government think. Football has more positives for inclusion and diversity than pretty much anything around the world despite an under current of idiots who send or shout abuse. Social media seems to be the hotbed for problems currently, yet they seem reluctant and slow to help stem the flow of awful messages being sent.
So to sum up - the government don’t think there is a problem, Facebook won’t stop the problem, but all football fans are the problem.
Football fans and football does more for equality as football significantly over indexes with black players who are on average better than white players. Even at grass roots level, it’s being different people together in a wonderful way which other sports don’t do as well.
There’s also a soundbite this is about getting rid of all racism. Racism in sport, in the country and across the globe is a much more complicated thing to understand and resolve than probably most people who are surrounded by a culture of their own to understand. In my experience, some of those cultures who suffer the most racism are also those who are the most racist.
These things are always a bit of a pendulum, when the momentum swings too far one way (eg the hard left BLM protests), only being out the other side and tempt people who are more on one side to become more extreme.
I don’t get the knee, to me it’s not clear as I perceive it as a US gesture against their
You're just arguing with thin air here, but you did tell me to not bother replying so I'll leave you to rant in peace.[/QUOTE ] Absolute unadulterated nonsense im afraid, you said a Government report, check again who compiled the report and what its conclusions it came to. What do you think "systematic " means. Then I guess if you didn't read the report or the bits that don't conform with your biases , you won't know.
problems along with being political. I know many argue it’s about “equality” but it isn’t in my opinion. Booing however is moronic, and fans should stop the distraction.
But these powerful footballers and stars such as Mings or Joshua, should avoid getting into to preaches around “black people supporting black business” and that nonsense (as someone who is from a stereotype who pays a lot of money to support both stars financially), and start boycotting the social media sites who won’t improve their procedures and start lobbying government harder to further square up the country in terms of opportunity.