It's easy to go around thinking "Well, I haven't heard anyone white use the n-word or call someone a pa*i for years, so racism must be solved". And the fact we don't have guns over here in the same way they do in the US does mean that it is literally more difficult for the police to kill someone here than it is over there, so it's true that you don't get the same frequency of highly-reported lethal force when it comes to police vs minority incidents.Moot point.
UK society isn't systemically racist.
The dumb actions and opinions of a dying breed (racists/bigots) doesn't lend credibility to thousands of woke individuals causing havoc and carrying placards claiming the UK is. Look at the facts. The UK leans the opposite way in everything it does, and so do the majority of it's population.
You're really asking that? In the current context?
The fire is the systematic and endemic bias against people simply because of the colour of their skin, especially in the way it has been seen publicly and shockingly in recent weeks and months.
The fire is George Floyd, the fire is Breonna Taylor, the fire is Ahmaud Arbery, the fire is Philando Castile, the fire is Eric Garner, the fire is Trayvon Martin - I could go on and on and on.
Here's another similar analogy to the one I gave about "all houses matter", in picture form:
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Back to football, I thing the BLM thing on the shirts is typical
One of these days, we might see them address the demographics of the game. That photo of the IFAB members was particularly jaw dropping
Footballers being basically forced to wear a politically-based slogan on their shirts, like police officers being forced to "take a knee" or suffer the consequences isn't democracy -it's a disgrace and an embarrassment to our sport.
Absolutely no way... it’s patheticsnap question,
if we were doing games at the weekend and the FA said, referees to take a knee before kick off on Saturday, would you?
Am no, absolutely not.
Equally, I think many teams would object
Interesting how the Premier League found it unacceptable for players to wear poppies on their shirts as I recall but a "political" slogan is okay or maybe I imagined that one ...
That was FIFA for international games, not Premier League and poppies have been worn by players and match officials.