I support the message but the PL shouldn't be endorsing any political movement imo.
Alot of BLM supporters in the UK dont realise the big differences in society that the UK / USA has therefore the BLM movement in the USA has political aims that are not applicable to the UK - hence why I think alot in this country have jumped on the bandwagon without realising what the actual movement fully encompasses.
The majority supports the message - just not the movement itself.
I think there are probably 3 different elements actually.
1) The broad message (which I agree everyone agrees with).
2) The core organisation, who for he most part do none violent community activism
3) The big protests that are obviously undertaken in their name.
I am not going to even reduce point 3 to some of the wanton violence we saw, but even the mass peaceful protesters. While they do have protests, from my understanding of BLM activists are quite wary of that sort of mass protest. They want to help black people, on the ground with fairly "bread and butter" issues.
As for the PL, I suspect they would say they are agreeing with the first point. They are agreeing with the slogan. As you say the slogan, the organisation and then the manifestation are separate things.
One thing that gets my goat re the PL, as mentioned the other day, is that they will in the abstract support these protests but in a concrete sense will not take actions to support black footballers. I mean have they mandated Liverpool to publicly apologise for what happened to Patrice Evra and considered a points deduction penalty? Have they addressed the legitimate questions raised by Troy Deeney, where the answer to them was they had given the questions no thought whatsoever.
I'm not black, but that would really irritate me if I were. It would seem like an organisation that was looking to jump on the bandwagon somewhat about broad questions but doing precious little about things they have within their control. I mean we can point out other people and organisations that do things wrong, but it rings hollow when you don't take meaningful action in your own organisation.
He can be a bit hit and miss, but I actually thought John Barnes spoke very well about this the other day on the news. He was quite dismissive of the actions clubs faced, and rightly pointed out 95% of black people don't want to be a footballer or are not bothered about it. Is there enough being done to tackle knife crime, not going to school etc etc. I mean taking the knee is fine but I do think we need meaningful rather than emblematic action.
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