Quote Originally Posted by Albionic68 View Post
To be honest I don't really see the need for BLM/Kick it Out t-shirts. Whilst I appreciate they raise the profile of anti racism campaigns within the game, if a supporter or player has racist tendancies they won't feel any different for the sake of a t-shirt. Tokenistic symbolism in my honest opinion. If they want to change views they need to up their game and show they mean business.

If a supporter can get a life time ban for an embarrassing impersonation of a chimpanzee when in the stands, or in certain instances get the sack from their private employment, then players who make racist remarks should have their contracts terminated for gross misconduct and receive life time bans from the professional game. Be that white on black or black on white. As far as I'm concerned that stands equally for players who are found to have falsley accused others of racism.

Gross misconduct is gross misconduct and professional standards are professional standards. It's that simple. As for 'taking the knee', give me strength. Racism is a wider societal issue which needs to be addressed. None racist me expressing empathy with other races by kneeling down won't cure the thought processes of others though. Only education and time have any chance of achieving that. Again, tokenistic symbolism in an attempt to be seen be doing something whilst not actually doing anything material to address the real issue.
An excellent post.

I’m sick of this sort of stuff in truth and a lot of “bandwagon” jumping by nomarks wanting to raise their personal profile.

I had more respect for the Rugby players not taking the knee rather than the ones who did.

If I remember right there’s rules in most sports,including football,about what you are allowed to promote before,during and after a match?

Players have been banned for what they’ve had written on their tee shirt under their strip in the past.

Can you imagine the uproar if the reverse type of statements were being made......”Not all whites are racist” tee shirts would receive much vitriol.

What about the blacks walking around in black military type uniform over recent weeks.......if us whites walked around in white military style uniform we’d be called Klu Klux Klan or white suprematists so why is it okay for blacks to do this?