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Post by whitesince63 on Jun 12, 2021 21:08:56 GMT
What irks me most OM, apart from the link to BLM, is that this gesture is an Americanism and the racial situation over here is in no way similar to the US one. Over there, there certainly is both public and institutional racism, which there just isn’t over here to any great degree, despite organisations specifically trying to promote that there is. My cousin lives in Alabama and she is appalled by some of the things that go on. Sadly, all this gesture seems to be doing is the opposite of what it’s supposed to by inflating the situation. We all agree that racism of any kind is wrong and needs stamping out where it’s found and I have absolutely no objection to a movement to support that. My feeling though, is that it needs to create harmony and be something we can all get behind, which this is most definitely not. Whatever anyone tries to say about it just being a gesture about anti racism it isn’t as long as it’s associated with an overtly political organisation like BLM. Shirts even support the BLM badge for goodness sake, so how can it be anything other than political? I’ve got my ST for next year but I can tell you that if this garbage is foisted on me before games I’ll boo as loudly as I can, even at the risk of being ejected because if people don’t make a stand it won’t change and it needs to as soon as possible.
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