Slogan on Football Shirts

[baggieal]

It is ridiculous Baggieal, it makes you cringe. It almost like commercialises the whole thing.. lets wear a tshirt to show our support. We've been here before with the rainbow laces, I know exactly what you mean - just can't find the right word to describe it.

That’s my point Regis!! I get the protest and totally understand the ins and outs - I really do! Black lives matters though on shirts and the knee at every game is getting to be a farce. Even a couple of black workers who are great lads agree on this!

Burnley to condemn that banner tonight being offensive is shocking - bad timing yes!!! After the atrocity in the park by that Libyan - All Lives Matter so many are understandably getting angry now!

[regis80]

That’s my point Regis!! I get the protest and totally understand the ins and outs - I really do! Black lives matters though on shirts and the knee at every game is getting to be a farce. Even a couple of black workers who are great lads agree on this!

Burnley to condemn that banner tonight being offensive is shocking - bad timing yes!!! After the atrocity in the park by that Libyan - All Lives Matter so many are understandably getting angry now!

Basically there seems to be a small percentage of the population who are going on about that all lives matter.. and it is this that is being disrespectful to the BLM movement. It is because this small percentage do not understand the movement of BLM and they are coming out publicly saying all lives matter. They seem to miss the point what the BLM means or stands for in the US like you’ve pointed out. I don’t understand why people are overreacting and being insensitive but at the same time, i think it’s gone too far here. But this is being fueled by bigots, to cause more divide.

There is huge outrage over this reading attack and it makes me sick that someone can do this. Do you have the same outrage when someone else has been killed murdered? If all lives matter to you then you should feel outraged. Just think about it for a sec. I’m by no means trying to score points here but putting things into perspective.
All over the UK the deaths from covid brought the country together, it was only a few weeks ago.. fast forward to now and look where we are.

[Leicesterbaggie]

One thing that confuses me slightly is that in the Championship they don't wear the slogan. Is it because it is not considered such high profile or what?

[stripes39]

Souness and Redknapp wearing the obligatory BLM badges along with NHS badge on SKY today ( SKY never miss a beat when it comes to a bandwagon)

People are now scared not to be seen to be doing this stuff now if they have a public profile.

That in itself should frighten anyone who believes in a free society.

I gather Ryan Shotten ( of mixed race ) was the only player in his game not to take the knee.

Good on him and at least he followed his own heart and whatever beliefs he has.

Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon. The latest I see is Lewis (tax exile) Hamilton. He recently used his press conference to lecture everyone on why statues should come down and mentioned slavery and the colonies etc etc. He was wearing his Mercedes cap. The same Mercedes who used 40,000 slave labourers in the war and built Hitler’s car and much of their fortune. The same company who’s history is associated strongly with racism that now pay Hamilton 40 million a year. He has obviously led a sheltered life.

[kettering_baggie]

Unfortunately, Lewis Hamilton does not come across as a particularly likeable character. He is arrogant and all to happy to rub shoulders with very wealthy people, some of whom are also of dubious character. There was a photograph published, only last year I think, showing the ‘virtuous’ Mr Hamilton enjoying hospitality in the company of Philip Green, the same Philip Green that destroyed the pensions of many of his employees (BHS for example); allegedly!