SteveC 150 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 (edited) The gaffer spoke on thistopic in his recent interview:https://www.itv.com/news/2021-03-09/exclusive-steven-gerrard-on-rangers-title-win-liverpool-links-and-racism-in-football To wit: "Gerrard also highlighted the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and taking a knee, which has become a key feature in Scottish and English football this season. He said a "small minority" of fans were letting down the message when it comes to anti-racism. "It's important to everyone, especially with what's going on in the world. We will continue to give all the support we can and we will support those messages." He added: "The hope is one day it'll be eradicated." Edited March 17, 2021 by SteveC 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedell 6,089 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 On 17/03/2021 at 11:27, SteveC said: The gaffer spoke on thistopic in his recent interview:https://www.itv.com/news/2021-03-09/exclusive-steven-gerrard-on-rangers-title-win-liverpool-links-and-racism-in-football To wit: "Gerrard also highlighted the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and taking a knee, which has become a key feature in Scottish and English football this season. Expand Is Gerrard saying that he supports this? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 4,815 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 On 17/03/2021 at 07:26, Ieatbats said: Taking the knee was meant as a show of solidarity for everyone to support equality and take a stand, or knee in this case, against racism. BLM however are a politically motivated movement and as such have no place in football or sport in general. Footballers and Athletes in general are paid very well for their services and Black and Ethnic minorities have done very well in both of these sports as well as the majority of sports in the UK, surely a better way for these players to help would be to donate some of their huge salaries to helping disadvantaged youngsters instead of a meaningless gesture that is nothing more than virtue signalling nonsense which pamders to a Marxist political agenda. Expand What's the point in having money if any Tom, Dick or Harry can tell you how to spend it. Surely it would be better for you to just accept that footballers have their own opinions about how to act. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC 150 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 (edited) On 17/03/2021 at 11:59, Bluedell said: Is Gerrard saying that he supports this? Expand The interview is not difficult to locate, and so you can listen for yourself. There was no ambiguity to be heard from our manager's lips, with regard to the subject gisabeer put as his title for this thread. Edited March 17, 2021 by SteveC Adding final clause & leaving again - here's to many future triumphs for Rangers. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedell 6,089 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 On 17/03/2021 at 12:54, SteveC said: The interview is not difficult to locate, and so you can listen for yourself. There was no ambiguity to be heard from our manager's lips, with regard to the subject gisabeer put as his title for this thread. Expand Your post said that he "highlighted the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement" which "taking the knee" (the title of this thread) shows support for, so that suggests that he supports the #defundpolice part of it as well as other parts. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 FFS now we're hijacking Gerrard. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMAA 3,742 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Pointless and it always has been. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CammyF 9,429 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 On 17/03/2021 at 13:58, Bluedell said: Your post said that he "highlighted the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement" which "taking the knee" (the title of this thread) shows support for, so that suggests that he supports the #defundpolice part of it as well as other parts. Expand If SG does support BLM and their policies then it's his choice, no? I would imagine he supports the anti-racism message and the aim to eradicate racism from sport and society in general (which I think we all would support). As I said earlier I'll support our club in whatever stance they take regarding "taking the knee". As to the wider arguement regarding the BLM movement, in my experience the far left and far right are just two cheeks of the same arse. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoohBear 1,154 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) On 16/03/2021 at 12:15, Gonzo79 said: That's outdated terminology. It's People Of Colour (POC) or Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME). Expand Actually I dont think it is, BAME is definitely outdated though. Things change quickly, it's trying your best that counts. Edited March 18, 2021 by PoohBear 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ieatbats 49 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 On 17/03/2021 at 12:17, ranger_syntax said: What's the point in having money if any Tom, Dick or Harry can tell you how to spend it. Surely it would be better for you to just accept that footballers have their own opinions about how to act. Expand So all the rich black players are just virtue signalling then, they are privelaged and rich and therefore took the opportunity that everyone has no matter their colour or ethnicity to become the best that they can be so what more equality do they want or need? It's not a colour issue with the UK its a societal issue. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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