RACISM AT PORTSMOUTH FC - U18S

There are times to talk about a wound -
There are times to show people the wound - no matter how "shocking" or "distaceful".
Being black or of colour
or even a friend
or in a mixed race family
those words are hammered at you minute by minute
hour by hour
day by day
week by week
month by month
year by year
for a lifetime.

If it hurts us and some for the first time - we are beginning to feel the hidden pain.
No one should hide the wound from the racists scum.
We unite to heal the wound and keep the scum in the gutter.

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Middlesbrough123 said:
I think racism gets talked about too much imo I thought we were doing ok previously. You can’t just flick a switch and change society it’s a gradual thing .
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Totally disagree. Racism doesn't get talked about enough. What tends to happen is that people either shy away from it, ignore it or become defensive about, meaning real conversation rarely happens.

We have made some progress over the last 40 years, but there is a long, long way to go, so join in the debate and help to change society for the better.
 
Middlesbrough123 said:
I think it’s pretty unhealthy mentally to focus on racism 24/7, that’s how it’s been the last 18 month
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The reason we never used to speak of it so much because social media wasn't huge back in the day but now social media has exploded and its brought every troll out of its cave, if we start to not talk about it then it will never go away and I for one won't let that happen in my house. Racism seems to be everywhere at the minute and we absolutely must talk about it.
 
Middlesbrough123 said:
I think it’s pretty unhealthy mentally to focus on racism 24/7, that’s how it’s been the last 18 month
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that's not actually true, I don't know a single person who has focused on racism 24x7, or a single news channel, or a single celebrity.

Now if you add up every media source on the planet, then yeah, you can hunt down a piece of anti-racism somewhere 24x7, but that would say a lot more about the person trying to hunt it down and complain than the actual amount of anti-racism messages out there.
 
Middlesbrough123 said:
I think racism gets talked about too much imo I thought we were doing ok previously. You can’t just flick a switch and change society it’s a gradual thing .
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Well,

maybe race, but not racism. Any racism should rightly be spoken about, nobody should ever remain silent over it and expect it to change. Of course you can’t just flick a switch and change society, nobody is trying to do that. society and new generations have to be taught that racism isn’t acceptable, that is a gradual thing.

If we’re talking about race and not racism, then I’d say there’s things that have been politicised, often by using race, that never needed to be. But that’s for another topic completely.
 
Chappy112 said:
Because he's black....
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Is he? News to me

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breakthewallsdown said:
I understand the image above but why is Kalvin Phillips on there, am i missing something?
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Jamaican Father.
Irish Mother. (y)

International career​

Phillips was born in England, and is of Jamaican descent through his father and Irish descent through his mother. He was contacted by the Jamaica national team for a potential call-up. On 25 August 2020, Gareth Southgate named Phillips in the England squad for the first time.
 
As James O'Brien said on one of his videos regarding the fallout following the final on Sunday, it's not his place or mine to decide when players stop taking the knee, or in this case when we stop talking about racism, it is down to those lads and lasses who experience it on a daily basis.
As a middle aged white male I've enjoyed my share of white privilege and it's certainly not my place to say we should talk about it less (or ignore it if you like because that's what it amounts to).
 
dooderooni said:
As James O'Brien said on one of his videos regarding the fallout following the final on Sunday, it's not his place or mine to decide when players stop taking the knee, or in this case when we stop talking about racism, it is down to those lads and lasses who experience it on a daily basis.
As a middle aged white male I've enjoyed my share of white privilege and it's certainly not my place to say we should talk about it less (or ignore it if you like because that's what it amounts to).
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Indeed. Those of us who are fortunate enough not to experience this every day really don't know what we're talking about. Making judgements about the whys and wherefores of our young black players taking the knee is akin to Rees-Mogg saying he finds the existence of food banks 'heartening'.
 
Johnson took a bit of a hammering in PMQ's yesterday, particularly from Blackford, who has nothing to loose I guess from English racists. His first question was a beaut the way he shoehorned a quote from Johnson into the debate. I think this should be done more often.

Starmer raised the issue of racial hatred and how the government have stoked it in 4 of his 5 questions but didn't go far enough, in my opinion. And it made me wonder if Starmer is trying not to offend English racists and loose their vote. If that is the case it's pretty despicable.

I could be wrong, of course, and it may just be a difference in style.
 
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