I'm surprised there's no thread already on this and if it's in breach of forum rules then apologies, please delete this.
Firstly racism is completely wrong and shouldn't be tolerated at all but I read in the news this morning about the guy who did the white lives matter banner over Etihad Stadium has been sacked from his job.
Ok. I take issue with this. He was spectating a football game not working or representing the company he worked for. I disagree with the flamboyant way of going about making his point but he does have a point. Black lives matter. Yes they do. But surely so does everyone else? If he shoe was on the other foot and this was kicked off with a black cop killing a white male then it would have been "oh he must have deserved it". As for "taking the knee" not a frickin chance. The only person that gets that is my missus.
Which brings me to my biggest bone of contention. All the media going on about black lives matter then because this guy says white lives matter too he's immediately branded racist and loses his job. Why? Why is it racist to say white lives matter and not racist to say black lives matter? Double standards???? Why not go the whole hog and include other colours too? Brown lives? Yellow? Green? How ridiculous does it have to get?? Yes, its tragic and wrong about the chap who died, but it should have been handled differently within the police guidelines. Slavery is bad. Yes it bloody is! But all this happened a long long time ago yet people are being blamed for something their great grandparents did. How the hell are they responsible for this??? My grandfather fought in ww2 in the artillery and almost certainly killed some German troops but does this make me responsible for his actions? Does it f*ck!!
I don't usually get irritated to this extent by news stories but this black lives matter thing has exploded out of all proportion and its pissed me off big time.