Anthony Joshua out protesting today. Will the board take action?

[bigjack]

I've just seen that police have rushed in to shut down a motocross event at Baden Hall due to "social distancing measures" yet the pricks allow mass protests in city centres.

Unfuriates me,makes my blood boil

[Ruthless-RKO]

Just shows the double standards when Tyson Fury says something and when AJ does.

Has big Tyce been protesting for bml too?

BML? Black Matter Lives?

[veriton]

Hmmm

[Twinkle Toes]

Double standards from Joshua, he didn't have a problem with fighting in Saudi and getting their money with Saudi poor humans rights.

[Delta Jay]

I went to a BLM protest a few days ago. I had a mask on and stayed the fornicate away from everyone but some of the behaviour there was crazy, like some people want to get sick.

I understand why someone wouldn’t like the idea of a large gathering at the minute, but you can’t take away peoples rights to protest can you? That’s a slippery slope if ever there was one.

A bit of debate is fine, but holding people in utter contempt for assembling like this isn’t.

[Wee Tommy]

That one dude needs to get a stronger marker for his placard

Looks like he used a pencil

[banjo]

I went to a BLM protest a few days ago. I had a mask on and stayed the fornicate away from everyone but some of the behaviour there was crazy, like some people want to get sick.

I understand why someone wouldn’t like the idea of a large gathering at the minute, but you can’t take away peoples rights to protest can you? That’s a slippery slope if ever there was one.

A bit of debate is fine, but holding people in utter contempt for having the audacity to be upset at the murder of their own by the state (US and UK) is mean-spirited to say the least

Your absolutely right but this isn't just any normal time, we're in a pandemic and we've just got to a stage where new Covid-19 cases and deaths are on the way down and now risk a spike in new cases and back to square one.

[BigDoofus]

I went to a BLM protest a few days ago. I had a mask on and stayed the fornicate away from everyone but some of the behaviour there was crazy, like some people want to get sick.

Out of interest, was there any protests at the large number of innocent black people that have been killed by the looters at the protests in USA?

[knockout]

Out of interest, was there any protests at the large number of innocent black people that have been killed by the looters at the protests in USA?

Obviously very sad that an innocent person of any colour has been killed or injured in the protests and no I don’t believe there have been any specific protests for any black people killed by looters in the US protests. (but I think you knew that anyway)

But as I pointed out earlier the protest in USA isn’t about one person being killed or injured. It’s a protest against 400 years of injustice and prejudice. They are using the George Floyd as a recent example, but it’s a protest against centuries of inequality.

As you are a boxing fan this is best illustrated by the story of Muhammed Ali .... grew up in a segregated society in 1950s Kentucky, went to Rome and won a gold medal for his country, he was a hero. however when he got home he couldn’t go to the same nice restaurants as white people, had to go sit at the back of the bus, couldn’t even use the same toilets as white people. Basically the system treating him as a second class citizen.

Then when USA decides to enter a Cold War conflict in Vietnam and need soldiers, what better cannon fodder than going to the ghettos and recruiting young black men. They might not be good enough to sit at the front of the bus or eat in the nice restaurant, but they can go die in Vietnam

Ali said no, he wasn’t going to fight. They banned him from boxing and he lost his prime 3 years.

The 60s civil rights movements saw the end of segregation in restaurants etc but the inequality continues to this day.

So the protest isn’t about George Floyd it’s about the system....

[Stuarty]

Omg I can only imagine the tiresome comparisons if he was banned

That's true!

[BigDoofus]

The 60s civil rights movements saw the end of segregation in restaurants etc but the inequality continues to this day.

So the protest isn’t about George Floyd it’s about the system....

Does this system or the inequality prevent a black President?

[Coco]

These days black people can sit wherever they like on the bus!

Was segregation the American term for apartheid?

The Americans have some great terms for fascist behaviour, enhanced interrogation, liberation, collateral damage!

[knockout]

The 60s civil rights movements saw the end of segregation in restaurants etc but the inequality continues to this day.

So the protest isn’t about George Floyd it’s about the system....

Does this system or the inequality prevent a black President?

No it doesn’t, but it makes it considerably more difficult.

1 black president out of 44

220 years until it finally happened.

Black population of between 12-18% across this time period.

[BigDoofus]

Does this system or the inequality prevent a black President?

No it doesn’t, but it makes it considerably more difficult.

1 black president out of 44

220 years until it finally happened.

Black population of between 12-18% across this time period.

So the system or inequality doesn't prevent anyone from leading the country.
Did it stop Orah earning a living? Mayweather? Michael Jordan?

[knockout]

You are picking outliers, both with the President comment and the three examples you are giving.

I said the system was prejudiced and lacked equality. I didn’t say a black person couldn’t succeed in a particular endeavour

In fact the 3 examples you have given are

1) some of the most single minded and driven individuals ever known in their particular field

2) are in the field of sport and entertainment where barriers to entry are much lower than other sectors.

[Delta Jay]

I went to a BLM protest a few days ago. I had a mask on and stayed the fornicate away from everyone but some of the behaviour there was crazy, like some people want to get sick.

I understand why someone wouldn’t like the idea of a large gathering at the minute, but you can’t take away peoples rights to protest can you? That’s a slippery slope if ever there was one.

A bit of debate is fine, but holding people in utter contempt for having the audacity to be upset at the murder of their own by the state (US and UK) is mean-spirited to say the least

Your absolutely right but this isn't just any normal time, we're in a pandemic and we've just got to a stage where new Covid-19 cases and deaths are on the way down and now risk a spike in new cases and back to square one.

I was conflicted, certainly.

[Delta Jay]

No it doesn’t, but it makes it considerably more difficult.

1 black president out of 44

220 years until it finally happened.

Black population of between 12-18% across this time period.

So the system or inequality doesn't prevent anyone from leading the country.
Did it stop Orah earning a living? Mayweather? Michael Jordan?

Naming four rich black people doesn’t mean there’s no more racism in the USA. There and around the world, life is harder for people with darker skin. Some people are trying to do something about it.

Looters are obviously dickheads.

[BigDoofus]

Does this system or the inequality prevent a black President?

No it doesn’t, but it makes it considerably more difficult.

1 black president out of 44

220 years until it finally happened.

Black population of between 12-18% across this time period.

The majority of the US population is female. 0 female presidents out of 44.

[tonyevs]

As you are a boxing fan this is best illustrated by the story of Muhammed Ali

But far from a person striving for racial equality - Ali for a large part of his career chose to fuel the fire of racial hatred by preaching about the white devil .. and using racial slurs against his proud black opponents. Ali`s initial stance against the Vietnam war was more about his concern about loss of earnings than his `quarrel with the Viet Cong`.

Joshua is clearly not the person the media try to portray him as. His previous Instagram comment to Eddie Chambers demonstrates that.

[Boxerbeetle]

No it doesn’t, but it makes it considerably more difficult.

1 black president out of 44

220 years until it finally happened.

Black population of between 12-18% across this time period.

The majority of the US population is female. 0 female presidents out of 44.

I don’t think many people would genuinely claim that females are treated equally under the ‘system’ either

[BigDoofus]

Naming four rich black people doesn’t mean there’s no more racism in the USA. There and around the world, life is harder for people with darker skin. Some people are trying to do something about it.

Looters are obviously dickheads.

Universities in UK and USA have lower qualification requirements for entrants with darker skin. Which country could I travel to to take advantage of my white privilege?

[BigDoofus]

The majority of the US population is female. 0 female presidents out of 44.

I don’t think many people would genuinely claim that females are treated equally under the ‘system’ either

How about a protest where protesters can throw objects at police horses?

[Delta Jay]

Naming four rich black people doesn’t mean there’s no more racism in the USA. There and around the world, life is harder for people with darker skin. Some people are trying to do something about it.

Looters are obviously dickheads.

Universities in UK and USA have lower qualification requirements for entrants with darker skin. Which country could I travel to to take advantage of my white privilege?

You could travel to the UK or the USA, you will greatly benefit from white privilege there.

I understand what you’re getting at, when actions are made to create equality, the privileged group can feel this as an attack.

It’s a hard one, cos loads of people hate the idea of positive discrimination (which doesn’t happen as much as everyone seems to think) but we’ve got to do something and making higher education more accessible to certain groups is a start.

I know it’s hard fella, but your “someone please think of us white people!” angle is unbecoming.

And that’s me done for this thread. Too serious around here lately, where’s Kevin Mitchell with his dick out when you you need him?

[knockout]

No it doesn’t, but it makes it considerably more difficult.

1 black president out of 44

220 years until it finally happened.

Black population of between 12-18% across this time period.

The majority of the US population is female. 0 female presidents out of 44.

Yes ... didn’t you realise sexism is quite prevalent as well as Racism ?!

[Grilling Machine]

Ali's behaviour was often terrible, becoming anti-white, misogynistic and disrespecting many, but that doesn't change his early life experiences, nor his less frequent moments of grace. Similarly I don't like AJ much, but since I'm no racist I support his right to protest against inequality that spans hundreds of years without redress. Some people look at MLK as the end of this inequality rather than green shoots of real change.

In the uncut version he’s encouraging black people to shop in black owned shops and for whites to do the same.

Nothing wrong with that. If white people refuse to buy from an Asian-owned shop, encouraging them to rethink and maybe support that person is fine. Likewise, Mickey, if people refuse to hire GRT workers then there's nothing wrong with encouraging them to rethink their position on that.

It's only a problem if it's encouragement to use one group exclusively, i.e. stop buying anything from white people. But good luck trying that anyway, when 99% of the things we buy are from rich white men.

The rich? The Chinese Communist Party?

C19 creation aside, I'd much rather have China's daily infection rate right now than ours. China does have some serious political problems, but that's taking an outside-in view that doesn't question the US and UK. We've been taught to hate China and Russia for decades, when the reality is that we're all shared victims of propaganda. I know someone in China and it's a harsh government, but they're not the evil monsters the West paint them as. I'd say their worst practice is worker exploitation, with many recruited from countryside poverty to work in factories with anti-suicide nets around them. But then we recruit Romanians on the cheap to work our fields...

The current Tories would bring back workhouses if they could. It's crazy that Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and Rees-Mogg (whose Somerset Capital is currently earning him millions for nowt) are regarded as 'men of the people'. We live in a culture where working-class men are made to feel like failures if they can't provide for themselves/their families, it's still Boys from the Blackstuff to this day, and the likes of Johnson prey on this macho bullshit to keep us grafting for them.

Corbyn wanted to raise corp tax to a level that would've been lower than it was in Thatcher's day, and he was demonised by all of our media, TV and paper. He listened to the IRA because he wanted peace in Ireland and was branded a terrorist sympathiser, despite always condemning violence, and so on. To vote for Corbyn was seen as unmanly — as something for the snowflakes. Hating these 'woke snowflakes' is what you're supposed to do — what you've been instructed to do, because it divides us. And sure, there are lots of prime tossers on the left as well. But the point is that we shouldn't be living in a culture where some men consider killing themselves (and some do) for losing a job.

We're always saying how losing a fight shouldn't be such a big deal in boxing, but then voting with the idea that all unemployed are scroungers, hence how hard it is to come to terms with unemployment if you've grown accustomed to bashing others for it. We actually argue in favour of a more positive view to boxing losses because we can relate to how likely they'd be for us! We can imagine being in that position so we're much less hard on those fighters, respecting what they *have* done.

I've just seen that police have rushed in to shut down a motocross event at Baden Hall due to "social distancing measures" yet the pricks allow mass protests in city centres.

They're trying to disallow it with horses and kettling, Peterloo-style, and causing way more tension as a result. I personally agree with social distancing taking precedence over demonstrations, but as a demonstrator you have to get out there when the opportunity arises. If protestors could somehow collectively agree to gather later in the year that'd be grand, but their motivation might've fizzled out by then, and since the US are going hard it's currently the best time to get the attention of those in power.

It won't bring about any change in the short term, it just feels good to throw a few back at the racists in charge, not just in politics but big business. Especially in big business.

So the system or inequality doesn't prevent anyone from leading the country.
Did it stop Orah earning a living? Mayweather? Michael Jordan?

Obama was a huge disappointment to many black people, and his popularity dropped throughout his terms. I think in some ways his era was even worse, because you expect a white man to support the status quo.

Mayweather and Jordan were outstanding athletes, who've always been fine as entertainment for white people. Black singers were employed by rich whites in Edwardian times, but never treated as equals for it. Recall how Jesse Owens was hated by Hitler at the same time as the White House refused an invite after he'd won Gold for them.

Oprah's chatshow was the product of corporate white America, who saw the burgeoning profit in appealing to an untapped socially conscious viewership in the '80s. Oprah landed the job because she was articulate and likely the best candidate, but hers is a chatshow that would've been created to capitalise on that emerging market anyway. She's now massively rich, and the whites who gave her that platform even more so, but for all she's talked about over the years, very little's changed. Oprah's presented as a catalyst for change — a decades-long voice for equality, but it's been cemented beyond doubt in recent weeks that the US police are still incredibly racist.

As someone else said (I don't have their name): “If you've 10 bad cops to 1000 good and the latter do nothing, you've 1010 bad cops.”

Apologies for the essay, but let's please try and sympathise with people who've suffered things that most of us haven't, and not just point out that so-and-so was a wrong 'un anyway. Overlooking injustice because we don't care about those it's affected leaves those that we'd care about vulnerable. Unless of course you don't care about any black people, in which case you know what you are and you should confront that for your own and everyone else's good.

There's no we're-better-than-you sentiment in any of this — there's no judgement on my part for any history of racist thinking because if you go back far enough I'd be guilty too. But surely, seeing all this shit going on, we can try and be better people when asked to review our collective history.

Eddie Colston had nothing to do with me, but when I see his statue getting dunked I ain't in nobody's way!

Tell you what, though, I really miss our days of Wilder's armour bants (or indeed Mitchell's cockfeeding). At least we're all united in hating Covid, eh.