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Time To Stop, '' Taking The Knee?''
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Now that the point has been made, should politics be taken out of sport, and sportsmen and women should now stop, '' Taking The Knee?''
(And especially when accompanied with the clenched fist power symbol!)
(And especially when accompanied with the clenched fist power symbol!)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was never a supporter of "taking the" as I felt it was subservient and I don't feel subservient to any race of whatever colour.
I would NEVER" take the knee" probably because I would never get up again.
Politics should never be a part of sport.
Zola Budd was treated appallingly over Apartheid when in the U.K
I would NEVER" take the knee" probably because I would never get up again.
Politics should never be a part of sport.
Zola Budd was treated appallingly over Apartheid when in the U.K
People should continue to protest about serious issues that they feel strongly about because,if they stop making their feelings heard and seen, then nothing will be done. Black people (along with other groups around the world and including the uk) have been appallingly treated for many many years. Attention needs to be drawn to this and other issues. Taking the knee keeps the issues re the police, for example, out there. Why would you argue against attempting to protect people from racism (for this example) ???
“If I took the knee I’d never get up”
That’s why it’s fine by sportspeople and as long as they are happy with it it’s not up to is to tell them what to do.
It’s not really politics anyway but saying that, politics and sport, top level sport at any rate (if not always top level politics) are tangled together and it’s hopeless wishing it otherwise
That’s why it’s fine by sportspeople and as long as they are happy with it it’s not up to is to tell them what to do.
It’s not really politics anyway but saying that, politics and sport, top level sport at any rate (if not always top level politics) are tangled together and it’s hopeless wishing it otherwise
“ but some have been judged by expressing their free will not to participate, assumptions have been made and abuse hurled”
Unfortunately that the modern world and instant social media comment. It’s the same with people who refuse to wear poppies. James McLean for example, who I don’t agree with, has had dreadful abuse. As have people who have made the gesture, as we’ve seen recently
Unfortunately that the modern world and instant social media comment. It’s the same with people who refuse to wear poppies. James McLean for example, who I don’t agree with, has had dreadful abuse. As have people who have made the gesture, as we’ve seen recently
//one's a voluntary signal that a few choose to use, the other seems to be a compulsry act//
It's not a compulsory act though. Many players, and indeed teems, have stopped doing it. Middlesbrough made a press statement to say they will not be taking the knee anymore, and stood while their opponents did it last night. When QPR director of football Les Ferdinand, one of the most famous black players of his day, urged the act to stop as it's meaning had become diluted, his players asked to be allowed to continue.
It seems to be a purely voluntary act, and considering the OP recently began a thread about freedom of speech, I'd suggest freedom of expression also be a basic right for all.
It's not a compulsory act though. Many players, and indeed teems, have stopped doing it. Middlesbrough made a press statement to say they will not be taking the knee anymore, and stood while their opponents did it last night. When QPR director of football Les Ferdinand, one of the most famous black players of his day, urged the act to stop as it's meaning had become diluted, his players asked to be allowed to continue.
It seems to be a purely voluntary act, and considering the OP recently began a thread about freedom of speech, I'd suggest freedom of expression also be a basic right for all.