I support the Premier League's Kick It Out campaign and especially their Kicks programme which actually helps local kids in communities. [Link] Wilfried Zaha is among the players who have done great work for Kicks, among his other excellent charity work. This is real action, not just symbolic gestures and grandstanding which achieve nothing.

Black Lives Matter, however, is a Marxist organisation that achieves its aims through violence and rioting, is anti-police, even against the nuclear family and believes in identity politics. In the US, its donations don't even help black communities, but is channelled towards the Democrat party where they are backing programmes to defund the police.

If the Premier League wants to bring politics into the game, then I won't be watching.

Edited by Penge Eagle (18 Jun 2020 8.29pm)

Kev, life is pretty crap in China for many. Are we getting that on the shirt or are we a football club?

Agree to a point on education. But the behaviour and discipline of young black boys in groups isn’t the best. A lot of the parenting is either too relaxed or just lacks a father. I’ve even heard the Bristol mayor blame the country for that. When the current education system isn’t valued or used for what it could do for their benefit then you start doubting whether any changes will do enough. Of course there are those who are no doubt frustrated at work but I’m referring to those distracting each other at school.

Black people get stopped more mostly because of the disproportionate crime levels by black people. This causes disproportionate levels of police stopping black people. And so we have anger but the need of stop and search to deal with knife crime. I get why some won’t want to be stopped but for the greater good the crime levels of young black men needs to be quashed. It’s doing innocent people of all colours no good at all. Unfortunately a minority of young black people spoil things for the majority. Majority of whites and blacks.

I always say the new inner London accent and dialect is doing these youngsters no favours at all. The people hiring don’t relate to it, because guess what, the majority and people with money or power don’t have the accent. You don’t get many chavvy sounding white people in the office professional environment so don’t count on it happening any time soon for this new accent that has zero power or influence. Just not going to happen.

Unfortunately too many black parents haven’t recognised that as a POC you have to make sure you do everything you can to make yourself employable and successful as Asian parents have. POC don’t have the fallback of better paying manual jobs without many qualifications after a few earlier years in the trade that white people have. The white boy whose dad can get or guide him into whichever trade or industry can afford to not value the opportunity to pick up as many qualifications as he can. POC don’t have that advantage.

Sadiq Khan is just the biggest cvnt going. I’d rather Shaun Bailey was mayor tomorrow to see what he can do.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (18 Jun 2020 9.47pm)

COYP

The lack of fathers in the home is one of the contributing factors to kids going astray – the family unit should be encouraged.

BLM believes in this: "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure" which is terrible. [Link]

The gang problem is an African import problem. It isn’t a Caribbean problem.

No matter how much of an invasion of rights, you cannot oppose stop and search when the end goal is for the good of your community and beyond and in the next breath complain the police have it in for your community when the only way out of it is to round up all the knife carriers and punish them properly. The lack of respect of the police and authority has reached an all time low in London I’m not surprised people carry knives. That aspect of it has come in from Africa and lawless countries where life is cheap and women prove they can bare children before marriage. I’d carry a bat in my car if I lived far enough into south London I’d need it.

They want respect but don’t respect or at least value the things that make a civilised society and country. It’s different in London to elsewhere. It’s a different culture and one that is having a grip on their communities, and yet their wider communities oppose stop and search.

COYP

Steve Parish on question time now, just said he wouldn"t have a statue up now of a man who killed 19k in the slave trade, also we got 202 at the academy, repeated 6pm sunday parliament channel