C’mon Rfu Get A Grip

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/53096584

It’s going beyond silly now and will surely burn itself out

[youngmafbog]

"If we have to ban everything related to the slave trade we have to ban an awful lot of stuff."

Well bye bye Mercedes then, didnt they use slave labour in the war? And built Hitlers car.

This is all utter nonsense and all it will do is drive deeper division as the majority will start to see it as a dismantling of their culture.

Still that is what BLM, as a far left movement, want I guess.

[iluvmargie]

I'm beginning to feel like an interloper in my own country!

[youngmafbog]

And no singing 'Vindaloo' either. Fat Les should apologize.

[vulcan42]

I've never understood why we have to apologise for the things our ancestors did. It's almost as silly as saying "my great, great grandfather invented xxxx, would you like to praise him?" Has a black person ever apologised for their ancestors who were involved in slavery?

[naomi24]

And some politician in Australia wants to rename Victoria and Queensland. Potty!

[Gromit]

// And no singing 'Vindaloo' either. //

That can only be a good thing.

[retrocop]

PP
You want to cite South Africa. Seems a pretty diverse squad to me. You count them.

https://www.heraldlive.co.za/sport/2019-08-27-meet-your-rugby-world-cup-2019-springbok-team/

Oh I love
Probably one of the least racist sports in the UK imho.

how many black union players do they have ? no not in sarf efrica ?

[ChillDoubt]

This sort of snowflake idiocy just heightens resentment and hardens attitudes of those who were previously ambivalent.

[dannyk13]

//In the starting XV that beat Wales in Sunday's semi-final there were six black players: wingers S'busiso Nkosi and Makazole Mapimpi, centre Lukhanyo Am, prop Tendai Mtawarira, hooker Bongi Mbonambi, and Kolisi//

[retrocop]

10 BAME Players in a squad of 31 playing for England in Japan 2019.

[ToraToraTora]

it's a song about deliverance and freedom for gawds sake, written by a slave, I'd have thought its the sort of think BLMT would adopt as their anthem too!

[retrocop]

Jimmy Peters. First Black man to play Rugby for England 1906-1908.

[Ellipsis]

Martin Offiah sums it up perfectly in the article linked to in the OP:

"It's definitely an emotional piece of music, very emotive, it stirs up feelings and that's probably something to do with its history," Offiah said.

"That history is probably not that well known by a lot of people in the UK. I champion the RFU reviewing it, I wouldn't support the banning of such a song. When you do try to ban things like that it just makes the song more divisive.

"If this review leads to the RFU putting a positive spin on this song, engaging with ethnic communities, looking at the rooms where decisions are made in the RFU and addressing those issues, that's what we actually want."

[Peter Pedant]

// Oh I love
Probably rugby is of the least racist sports in the UK imho.

o come on - this is like saying - "when I was in the met, there was not racism there then !" - I mean jolly stuff but hardly true

[Togo]

//And some politician in Australia wants to rename Victoria and Queensland. Potty!//

Haha. Why Queensland? Is it considered homophobic?

[retrocop]

//Oh I love
Probably one of the least racist sports in the UK imho.

//how many black union players do they have ? no not in sarf efrica ?//

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//o come on - this is like saying - "when I was in the met, there was not racism there then !" - I mean jolly stuff but hardly true //

You asked a question. Danny and I provided some figures. Care to comment on the answers rather than bluster your way out of it with a diversion ?

[retrocop]

//Haha. Why Queensland? Is it considered homophobic? //

Sydney is now Cindy !!

[zebo]

//And the All Blacks will be changing their kit, apologising, and sending a few millions to 'black folk only' charities.//
At the same time they can stop culturally appropriating the Haka as the majority are not Maori.

[zebo]

//Well bye bye Mercedes then, didnt they use slave labour in the war? And built Hitlers car.//

Your nice Hugo Boss suit is designed by the people who designed the Gastapo uniforms and what was that company that produced the gas for the gas chambers?

[Mamyalynne]

//During the Holocaust, a German company called IG Farben manufactured the Zyklon B gas used in the Nazi gas chambers. They also funded and helped with Josef Mengele’s torture “experiments” on concentration camp prisoners.

IG Farben is the company that turned the single largest profit from work with the Nazis. After the War, the company was broken up. Bayer was one of its divisions, and went on to become its own company.

Oh… and aspirin was founded by a Bayer employee, Arthur Eichengrun. But Eichengrun was Jewish, and Bayer didn’t want to admit that a Jewish guy created the one product that keeps their company in business. So, to this day, Bayer officially gives credit to Felix Hoffman, a nice Aryan man, for inventing aspirin. (Source: Alliance for Human Research Protection, Pharmaceutical Achievers)//