Re: Clubb suspended
Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 4:06 am
Well said, morley.
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Agreed.morley pie eater wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:38 pm I remember watching the civil rights movement in the USA on TV in the 60s, and thinking "we're not like that here". Growing up in Hindley, I encountered very few black or other ethnic minority people. But on the odd occasion I did they were treated as curiosities maybe, but with friendliness and respect.
The biggest factor to influence my own views was the fact that my absolute number 1 hero was a bloke called Billy Boston. When I did come across prejudice or racist "jokes", I couldn't join in, or even comprehend why anyone could be racist, when King Bill was black.
Someone said that Wigan need to be seen to be doing "the right thing". I agree - but the right thing is not what modern convention or some RFL regulation says. It's the right thing for Billy, for Green Vigo, for Hendy, for Ellery, and for Bevan, Willie, Lammy.
Name-calling by/of Aussies, or between Lancashire and Yorkshire doesn't compare to what some of these blokes have had to put up with. We owe it to them to stamp out racism in our club and in our game.
(None of this assumes anything about what Clubby said.)
I agree. Education is needed from very early on. Once ppl get to a certain age its hard for them to want to change.morley pie eater wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:38 pm I remember watching the civil rights movement in the USA on TV in the 60s, and thinking "we're not like that here". Growing up in Hindley, I encountered very few black or other ethnic minority people. But on the odd occasion I did they were treated as curiosities maybe, but with friendliness and respect.
The biggest factor to influence my own views was the fact that my absolute number 1 hero was a bloke called Billy Boston. When I did come across prejudice or racist "jokes", I couldn't join in, or even comprehend why anyone could be racist, when King Bill was black.
Someone said that Wigan need to be seen to be doing "the right thing". I agree - but the right thing is not what modern convention or some RFL regulation says. It's the right thing for Billy, for Green Vigo, for Hendy, for Ellery, and for Bevan, Willie, Lammy.
Name-calling by/of Aussies, or between Lancashire and Yorkshire doesn't compare to what some of these blokes have had to put up with. We owe it to them to stamp out racism in our club and in our game.
(None of this assumes anything about what Clubby said.)
Agreednathan_rugby wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 10:48 am This thread needs locking.
Posts like the above are a disgrace.
I’d get banned if I wrote an honest reply back.
Exactly ppl no longer wants to discuss only their view is what they want to hear.
And this what I meant by my “new world order” comment a couple of pages back,people can’t or won’t discuss things without reducing huge wave of our population to an acronym,social media has so much to answer for in this respect for “I’m right your wrong lock it down brigade”it’s little wonder debate is drying out