Taking the knee was originally because of black people being murdered by US police. This originally got on people’s nerves of why copy America as usual. I remember a day or two after George Floyd there was a west London black girl on the radio saying her life was in danger every day she left the house. Seriously?

There’s a certain amount of exaggeration and hysteria in 2020. We then of course had social media videos of young black boys (adult in age) refusing to be searched or arrested and either being helped fighting with the police or passers by give the police grief as they pull a knife out of the detained person’s pocket. And still the police are racist or in the wrong.

What really needs to happen is meaningful changes and not futile rubbish, like AJ has hinted at, you just hope it’s sensible and not written by a black panther type again.

COYP

I fully understand how Taking The Knee originated and where.

As I said, my interpretation is that the players are using the gesture to support their anti racism stance. I really don't have a problem with that personally. What I do have a problem with is how it has been re positioned because I think it is now mis understood and a large number of people still directly associate it with BLM - an organisation which has it's own agenda.

I was involved in an online discussion on this topic last week, one of the participants was Sky Sports, and I challenged them to educate more on this subject.

Old, Ungifted and White

That's why I put "might" in my comment!

I despair sometimes at the way people only read what they want to see and not what is actually written.

And then complain about bias.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

"Taking the knee" isn't done to entertain us!

That's supposed to be the football.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

You're right, I haven't. Just adding my opinion.

Old, Ungifted and White

If it was a normal forum you would expect it to be but this isn't normal. Not in my opinion, having had enough experience of internet forums to form one.

This one has accumulated a disproportionate number of posters with similar views that lie outside the mainstream, including some that apparently have been banned from other sites.

That is enhanced by them bullying and ridiculing those who dare to express mainstream views to the point that many just give up in disgust. Those who do stick around must either be extremely patient and tenacious or masochists.

Why this has happened is another question but that it has cannot really be doubted. It is self-evident, even though it will likely be denied by the most culpable.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.