Lyle Taylor / BLM

[drillerpie]

That's what I think a lot of the people against taking the knee were trying to say. I would imagine 99.9% of people are against racism and support organisations such as kick it out, BLM is a political organisation and has no reason to be in sporting events.

Taking the knee also does not translate in the UK. In the US, they do it during their national anthem which is played before games and is seen as very taboo, in the UK, what exactly is it supposed to even be? It's not stopping racism, so what is it achieving?

Completely agree on all counts, it's just that there's a segment of society who sees the position "I'm against racism but I don't like BLM" as some kind of giveaway of actually being a closet racist.

Unfortunately this segment of society contains most mainstream journalists, corporate entities and educational institutions, hence when the BLM gesture was booed, people had their season tickets revoked and the press reacted like they'd re-enacted Kristallnacht in the stands.

Hopefully now a black player has 'come out' that will help, although I doubt the newspaper I read will want to publish anything about this.

[upthemaggies]

I think most people came to their senses on this issue some time ago, Currently, I don't much feel the need to talk about it, I probably do get drawn into things like this to a large extent to understand my own position. I'm quite certain now though that BLM is not good mental health.

Footballers generally aren't very bright but they're also, as public figures, under greater scrutiny and pressure. The idea that 100% of them still, after all of this time, genuinely think taking the knee is a good idea cannot possibly be the case. There will be many doing it because they are scared not to and that is a very sorry state of affairs for this game to be in.