Derby to stop taking the knee.....

[Andy_Faber]

All fair points, but perhaps inadvertently you have taken us back to the initial targets of the BLM protests...the statues dedicated to a variety of colonialists and slave traders etc.
Were they not the ‘poster boy’ equivalents of their time? ‘History’ came along to judge but, as I recall, you and those much further to the Right didn’t much care for the verdict.

the 'slight' difference being that (some of) those protesting aganst said colonialists are quite happy to buy/shoplift from shops that suppress their retail prices by the use of 'slave labour', much of which labour (and ironically much of the fortunes made) come from their own demographic. Slavery/exploitation knows no colour IMO but that, to quote TTR (I'm sure he's said this) doesn't fit 'the agenda'. YES, I do check as much as possible the source of the clothes I wear, right down to my Harris Tweed underwear

Edit: and the protestor's UK role model, who openly encouraged the BAME (I think he actually meant black) people to buy from BAME shops at the same time swallowed his principles enough to take massive sponsorship from non-BAME commercial enterprises

There are no clean hands