The island I live on had only a few black men about 10 years ago but now there are hundreds mixed into a population of only 30,000. It is a good microcosm of how racial stereotypes spread like a disease. My daughter recently asked her friend if she wanted to meet her at the public gardens to which she replied that she couldn't because African men drink there and they steal children and sell them (!!!). One of the villages complained that crime had spiked since the 'Africans had arrived' and that they were scared to go out. When the Mayor responded that actually there had been not one crime committed by a migrant and that crime was down they responded that 'well, they stand around on street corners drinking and looking threatening'.
The reality is that aside from a dispute between two friends there has been no additional crime of note on my island. I play football with a dozen or so Somalians and they have not once gotten a machete out over a disputed goal. However, a young black man was shot dead by two off-duty Maltese soldiers last year just for being black. What happened? People got upset that the army were targeted for abuse and complained about the migrant situation.

The UK is not the same as here, but the myth v reality thing is prevalent. Yes black men commit crime, but should all black men be punished for that? As a white male are you stopped and searched just because other white men have committed violent crime? Communities and the police have been failed by successive governments but so long as Branson doesn't have to sell his island then everything is ok.

Wonder what the Tom Robinson Band think about their logo being nicked?

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‘They’ as you tactfully so put it, really just would like to be treated equally, nothing more nothing less. Please just take some time and find out why BLM is used as a tag line as opposed to ALM.

Just blurting out but All Lives Matters is frankly tedious Daily Mail bulls***.

Not sure this should be in Palace talk. There’s always been some bigots on this site and why I stay away from general talk.
But while I’m here...I feel forced to say, feels like some of you are unpleasant relics from the 60s and 70s. If you’re offended by this statement then target hit.

Of course all lives matter - but if black lives don’t then that premise isn’t met. The cry for justice really should not get you, or anyone with a conscience, hot under the collar.

I would hope that you would understand why black people and their allies are taking action across the world. Being killed by the police or stopped disproportionately for your skin colour is what kicked this all off.

It can’t be removed from issues such as young black people not (on average) getting a job their grades would warrant - this is what is meant by structural racism. And because of it (down to various complex factors - Parish made some good points on Question Time) contributes to all sorts of social problems (some self inflicted) like gangs and broken families. Black families have higher rates of church attendance, for instance and yet according to some on here the problems we face are all our own fault...

I would also hope that just because some BLM activists are also Marxists you would be able to distinguish those views from others, who do not want to tear everything down but want some social and economic justice. Get outside of the bubble and you’ll fine most BLM supporters have no qualms that Churchill is rightfully placed on a pedestal- despite him being the mastermind of an electoral strategy that baldly stated - if you want a white Britain vote Conservative. Fine different era - right?

Thing is, this sh!t is complex! Stop being so effing reductive!!! Exercise some critical thinking- if you can. It isn’t black or white - pun intended.

Back to the original post. Personally I’m not that keen for football to be enforcing everyone taking the knee and the rest of it. But I can see that they wanted to have a strategy to avoid the mess the NFL ended up in.

When Tommie Smith and John Carlos held their fists upright in 1968 it was supported by Peter Norman (a true unsung hero) and I suspect a lot of non-black players would do the same now.

So I like some on here, think politics should be left to the individual, if possible, to make their stance. Take the knee at the start of the match if you want to but no hounding of those who wish not to.

I genuinely pity anyone who can’t stomach watching tonight’s game because if it, even if it seems fake - personally I look forward to seeing Palace play after 3 long months tonight. COYP.

black lives matter is a racist organisation.
dosent give a toss about black on black crime.
dosent give a toss about black on white crime.
but if one white man commits a crime against a black man then we are all held accountable.
utter left wing racist crap.

All of which is illegal under FIFA/UEFA laws of Football, ie: NO political logo's/messages on kits

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.