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Kicking It Out: Football Begins Distancing Itself From Black Lives Matter’s Politics

By The Boy -

What many spotted 3 weeks ago, has suddenly become a very public penny dropping moment for one of the Premier League’s biggest broadcasters and influencers, Sky Sports.

Last night the Black Lives Matter lapel pins were ditched by pundits for the live coverage of the Brighton vs Manchester United game.

What looked at first glance like a well meaning movement to secure awareness for an important cause has revealed itself as something more complex and frankly more sinister.

The Premier League is suddenly endorsing a political organization which has a significant beef with Israel, wants to bring down capitalism and de-fund the police.

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The campaign against Anti-Semitism called it right. You cannot fight prejudice with prejudice, that’s just nuts.

The sooner football chiefs remove this clearly politically flawed gang from Premier League shirts and get back to supporting Kick It Out, the better. After all, FIFA’s guidelines are not muddled.

What is truly puzzling in all of this dreadful mess, is quite why so many were so quick to leave the respected Kick It Out campaigns in the dust. There was a straightforwardly decent set up, without any unpleasant side to it.

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s1collin
s1collin
3 years ago
Reply to  DannyG

Do you have any real, hard evidence for that claim about systemic injustice and negative racial bias?

PlayItAgainSamways
PlayItAgainSamways
3 years ago
Reply to  MM444

Are you a bot?

Please tick all the boxes with pedestrian crossings:

MM444
MM444
3 years ago

What are the war crimes you refer to?
You choose to ignore the missiles and suicide bombers from Hamas and Hizbollah

Jonathan Asmerom
Jonathan Asmerom
3 years ago

BLM has been infiltrated ever since Michael Brown`s murder in 2014. Grassroots Foundational Blacks knows that. All of this infiltration withe alphabet community was to galvanize support towards Jim Crow Joe and the covert racists the Dems. In the UK it`s about oppression and dealing with structural racism and their history of colonialism. This needs to be respected or it will only get worse over time.

Spurs est1882
Spurs est1882
3 years ago
Reply to  DannyG

There are 3 layers of BLM – Middle are real people that want to drive change, create equality. Sadly the top people just want to keep the shit going so they have a job and bottom people just want to be on the ride.

DannyG
DannyG
3 years ago

I think Kick it out was suffering from fatigue. A new message was needed and BLM seemed to fit. No one wanted to be the one to question it or scrutinise it.

I think most people, myself included, assumed the movement was about equality and raising awareness of the systemic injustices and negative racial bias that black people have to deal with. It’s a shame that the waters have been muddied here and that the movement is much more political than people realised.

s1collin
s1collin
3 years ago

I brought this up on here a couple of weeks back and got criticised for saying that the PL shouldn’t be endorsing this movement. We live in a clown world where so many act without thinking.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
3 years ago
Reply to  ministers cat

why put it anywhere? except in the bin …
All lives matter .Do not support a terrorist organisation hell bent on bringing down the west

JimmyGrievance
JimmyGrievance
3 years ago
Reply to  Harry Hotspur

Careful H …. ol big ears got in trouble for similar

JimmyGrievance
JimmyGrievance
3 years ago

As Ricky Gervais said at the Golden globes.” If ISIS started a Streaming service you’d call your agent”

Similar sentiment with BLM. MSM media and profiled sports starts and company’s coming out in support of something they clearly didn’t investigate but saw a bandwagon and jumped on it.

Here’s a cloth, you can use it to wipe the egg off your face

PlayItAgainSamways
PlayItAgainSamways
3 years ago

Cross over between politics and footy is dodgy, and getting into it on here is probably not wise.

All I will say is it is very dangerous that people cannot criticise Israel. They are committing war crimes against other semites. What is even more dangerous and disgusting is that Jews who criticise Israel are labelled bad Jews or even antisemites. This is disgusting and is being used to shut up proper meaningful debate- as have the ‘organisations’ that have jumped onto the BLM slogan.

Harry Hotspur
3 years ago
Reply to  ministers cat

Anytime goalscorer markets were flooded with bets!

Harry Hotspur
3 years ago
Reply to  Marbella Spur

Absolutely not by me mate. I just took a look in the swear file and there was nothing there either!

mikey hughes
mikey hughes
3 years ago

Football and politics don’t mix, Sky Sports should not get involved. I agree with you H SS jumped on the wrong band wagon.

Marbella Spur
Marbella Spur
3 years ago

Was my last post deleted Mr H?

Marbella Spur
Marbella Spur
3 years ago

Sky are the most ridiculous virtue signallers.They decided in their wisdom that they had to have a female commentator or presenter on all their sports programmes most of whom are not qualified for the job and are useless.
But back to BLM, I can’t believe how long it has taken people to understand that their agenda is to bring down capitalism. Nigel Farage was quite right to compare them to the Taliban. I live in hope that the Government will sack Cressida Dick and all the other useless Chief Constables and that the police force can be persuaded to going back to what they are paid to do, preventing crime and making sure the law is upheld. They could start by desisting from taking the knee, and the same goes for our preening over paid prima donna footballers. Anyone up for defunding Levy?

ministers cat
ministers cat
3 years ago

Well done Sir Kier if it had still been “Harry” Corbyn in charge it would have been “it’s difficult”

But back on topic I never liked the wording on the back of all shirts when I was watching teams I had no idea who the players were (Bournemouth etc) why not just put a BLM symbol on the front.

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