On Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 8:49:32 PM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
> Holding and other POC don't understand and don't know HOW TO SOLVE the
> RACISM problem.
>
> POC have to FORCE the EVIL genocidal barbaric WASP THIEVES to PAY
> REPARATIONS for enslaving POC and STEALING their countries, continents
> and WEALTH for CENTURIES.
>
> That's the ONLY WAY this problem should be ad must be SOLVED.
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> https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/michael-holding-calls-for-more-sportspersons-to-speak-out-against-racism-1291993
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> Michael Holding calls for more sportspersons to speak out against racism
>
> "If people who have a platform and who are able to reach out and get
> people to listen and understand say nothing, then who will?"
>
> West Indies bowling great Michael Holding wants more sportspeople to
> step forward and speak out against racism because they have an important
> platform.
>
> In an interview at the Reuters Next conference on Wednesday, Holding
> said it was important that public figures used their celebrity status to
> get across important messages, particularly on racism.
>
> "If people who have a platform and who are able to reach out and get
> people to listen and people to understand say nothing, then who will?"
> Holding asked. "There are sportspeople who are well known throughout the
> entire world. If they get up and say something, people around the world
> will want to hear what they have to say and will want to try to
> understand what they had to say.
>
> "And that's the reason why people with a platform, people with a name,
> people that are recognised all over the world, need to speak up about
> things that affect them and affect the world."
>
> Holding has spoken out extensively on racism since an emotive plea for
> society to change its attitudes following the death of George Floyd in
> May 2020 in the United States. Floyd's death led to the Black Lives
> Matter movement going global.
>
> Holding has published a book "Why we Kneel, How We Rise" which covers
> racism in sport and has contributions from several high profile black
> athletes. He said athletes should not have to confine their opinions to
> sporting matters.
>
> "When they leave the arena, or the basketball courts, they have to go
> back into society to live a normal life. If they are affected by
> society, they have to speak up and use their platform."
>
> Holding also said there was a danger that the recent accusations of
> racism in English county cricket would be compartmentalised into "small
> boxes" when they were part of a larger societal problem.
>
> "We know it's a cricket problem, because it's happening now in cricket.
> But don't put it in a little box because it's comfortable to put it in a
> box. It's not only football or cricket has a [racism] problem. It's a
> society that has a problem. And that is what we need to fix, that's we
> need to start. If we can accept that it's society and not try to put it
> in small boxes, then we can get somewhere."
>
> Holding said education ensured unconscious bias and required urgent
> review, with governments needing to take the lead. "The history of
> mankind has not been taught, what has been taught is what suits our
> particular narrative. And that narrative is white superiority.
> Everything taught, even in Africa, in the Caribbean, where I'm from,
> highlights what white folks have done.
>
> "But what about what people of colour have done? They don't teach that.
> And that is why I highlighted in my book, so many discoveries, so many
> innovations, so many things that people of colour have done, that they
> need to teach.
>
> "People must recognise that it's all folks from different denominations
> and from different sectors and different parts of the world have done
> great things."

More whining by Holding,,,, RH