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The Cricket Thread

Grays_1890 said:
Personally for me it would be about doing real things in society and sport that makes actual changes, like Finch for Australia said lets move onto the education and make change. For me there is alot more sport can do than symbolism. It was not long ago the league turned a blind eye to the Suarez Liverpool issue which people have all of a sudden woken up to being wrong so these symbols are all great and clean the sports conscious but lets do more to actually fight racism.
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Fully agree with everything you say and that’s exactly what should happen.
I think the risk is people think ok, BLM’s been done to death, you made your point, now life goes on. Which it will, but unfortunately in the same vein.

Just remembered this is the cricket thread not BLM, so don’t want to derail.
 
parklane1 said:
Doing something that would help change the situation for the better, not just token symbols.
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Fair enough, but that’s not the same as ‘moving on’ that you mentioned. Moving on implies leaving something behind.
The symbol of taking the knee isn’t a token. It’s heartfelt and intended to mean something that’s a precursor to change.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
Fair enough, but that’s not the same as ‘moving on’ that you mentioned. Moving on implies leaving something behind.
The symbol of taking the knee isn’t a token. It’s heartfelt and intended to mean something that’s a precursor to change.
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Moving on could also mean doing something that will change the status quo.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
Fair enough, but that’s not the same as ‘moving on’ that you mentioned. Moving on implies leaving something behind.
The symbol of taking the knee isn’t a token. It’s heartfelt and intended to mean something that’s a precursor to change.
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It can't be both though, heartfelt is organic notenforced, from my point if you wanna take the knee do so anyway, if you support the cause and don't want to take knee do same.

As a sport though real action is real action not a banner that doesn't reflect its lack of actions in past or present. That's why in my opinion the banners and symbols are token
 
If we've learnt anything fom this summer it's that commentators should never try and second-guess the outcome. Yet still we had Nasser Hussein banging on about how the Aussies' tail-enders were sure to crumble under pressure in the final overs. What an idiot!

Congratulations Aussies, you deserved your series victory.
 
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