Should Burnley Fc Have Apologised?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8448635/Burnley-FC-apologise-White-Lives-Matter-banner-flown-match-against-Manchester-City.html

Could it be that people are fed up with having BLM everywhere they look,sport,tv,newspapers,demonstrations and so on, that a lone guy says also White Lives Matter....Burnley is going to impose a lifetime ban for this, perhaps saying Black and white lives matter may have been a more powerful message?

[fiction-factory]

That's because, naomi, you just don't see the issues many black people genuinely feel they are facing.

[ToraToraTora]

naomi 08:41, BA!

[ToraToraTora]

Naomi is bang on, all this Horse Guano, taking the Knee etc for gawd sake, if there is any racism in UK it's to be found in Football anyway. Just get on and earn your £Gazillion a week for kicking a ball about and stay out of politics.

[naomi24]

FF, perhaps I'm just not as gullible as some.

[iluvmargie]

8:45 - couldn't agree more. Wish I'd said that!

[fiction-factory]

Some of the white players were genuinely upset and seem to support the concept of BML and they are not gullible- they are just socially aware and realise "the message is not "only Black Lives Matter" but "black lives matter more than some people would like". There is a feeling of injustice we can't just ignore.
The timing of the White Lives Matter banner was deliberately inflammatory/provocative. If it had said "all lives matter, Burnley" I think there would have been little or no issue.

[ToraToraTora]

ff: "There is a feeling of injustice we can't just ignore. " - If there is a feeling, it's manufactured by the anarchist movement. Let's face it they want success without effort, they want it all on a plate. That's what this is about. Work hard, the world loves a tryer.

[Ken4155]

TTT, I very much doubt that any Burnley player is on £Gazillion a week. Our lot are one of the lowest paid teams in the league, if not the lowest.
There is racism in football, and not just in the UK. So why, TTT, do you disagree with players showing solidarity with their black team-mates.

[naomi24]

FF, // If it had said "all lives matter, Burnley" I think there would have been little or no issue.//

But why should it? ‘Black Lives Matter’ don’t say ‘All Lives Matter’ and no one has a problem with that. Does principle only work when it suits?

[Cryptical]

No No No.

[naomi24]

//"There is a feeling of injustice we can't just ignore. "//

When I watch a young and clearly very trendy young lady taking part in the London mayhem telling an interviewer that she’s ‘oppressed’, yes, I can ignore it because it’s nonsense. How the hell is she ‘oppressed’?

[ToraToraTora]

ken: "There is racism in football, and not just in the UK. So why, TTT, do you disagree with players showing solidarity with their black team-mates." - there is racism in football, in fact as I mentioned above it's where UK racism is mostly. I disagree with all this Kneeling cobras because it is false virtue signalling. If they want to tackle racism in football start taking action on game days when all the monkey chanting morons are doing their party piece. This is jumping on the whole BLM band wagon about something that does not exist.

[daisypotter]

My God a black thug dies in America and the whole world goes mad - you couldn't make it up! The guy flying the plane had the guts to do what a lot of us wouldn't.

[Ken4155]

^
What, fly a plane? Thousands do it.

[Ken4155]

Perhaps, just perhaps, "all this Kneeling cobras" will lead to a more stringent attempt to rid the terraces of racism? So tat the next time monkey chanting morons show their faces, it will be those in and around them who will quieten them and there will be no need to stop the game, or have teams walking off the pitch.

[royfromaus]

No worries, he will be jobless by Wednesday

[ToraToraTora]

ken, I always had you down as a sensible down to earth bloke but all this BLM business has thrown up a surprising side of you. Do you really think all of this is going to make any difference to the knuckle dragging thugs that use Football as a conduit for their racism?

[iluvmargie]

09:09 another post I agree with.

[ichkeria]

People were making a protest and pointedly associating it with Burnley FC. It was no innocent gesture. The club were right to dissociate themselves with it. Slogans of any sort rarely express things accurately as fiction has alluded to.

[Old_Geezer]

Burnley should be ashamed. Ashamed of being ashamed of, and apologising for something that needs no apology. Perhaps they won't need to start handing out lifetime bans if enough of their present supporters find a non-racist team to support instead.