Replying to Beside the Seaside:
"WHY......would anyone NOT support that"
There are numerous protests against racism and some people might think that this "take the knee" thing which has been pushed forward by the Black Lives Matter organisation - which exists in a number of forms and I would suggest that some of them have what honest, decent folk would be to consider to be highly questionable ideas - is not the way to go about demonstrating against racism and that there are better ways, times and places to demonstrate.
"WHY......would anyone NOT see the reason behind it"
I don't think anybody knows the exact reason behind it, those who support the "taking the knee" gesture have different reasons for supporting it. I'd imagine some are doing it to in support of the various Black Lives Matter movements and believe that they are forwarding various campaigns such as defunding the police and anti-capitalism, others may feel that they are raising awareness of racial issues/problems such as the possible inappropriate behaviour towards ethnic groups by police officers in the USA. Others might be doing it because they have long term highly paid contracts and don't want to put those contracts at risk by refusing to participate in this ridiculous charade.
"WHY......would anyone NOT agree that being a racist is morally wrong"
Personally I'd agree that being a racist is morally wrong, I'm sure the vast majority on this board would agree that is the case and I know that the vast majority of supporters at Bloomfield Road would agree that is the case. Unfortunately we do see some issues of racism - in and out of football - but at football these are much reduced these days. It is only 30-40 years since there were far fewer black players and they used to experience various intolerance, now there are black players in all teams and there are far fewer incidents of racism. One incident is far too many but looking at it from a BFC point of view, I have only experienced one incident of racism in the last 10 years at Bloomfield Road, a chap in the North Stand shouted, "Campbell, you black b@st@rd", when DJ Campbell came on as a sub against us. The whole stand went quiet before others started shouting at the chap who had abused DJ and rightfully let him know that should behaviour was wrong and would not be tolerated.
"WHY.......would anyone NOT allow others to express their support"
I stand corrected but I have yet to see anybody being not allowed to express their support. There are some people who don't agree with the whole "taking the knee" thing and some might think that it gets in the way of the footbalI ? I think there is a bigger problem with players being forced to express their support, I have no doubt that some players will feel that they have been forced to join in the whole thing and I have no doubt that some might choose to dis me for making this suggestion. Before ridiculing my suggestion it may be an idea to consider the backlash faced by the players and clubs of QPR and Coventry City after they decided not to "take the knee" before their game on Friday night. Mark Warburton faced ridiculous accusations of racism later on but luckily he is clearly a very good communicator and he was easily able to show the interviewer chap from Sky up for what he was.
"WHY.......well......Luckily, the majority of Football fans agree and are happy for players to take the knee and support them"
I am not sure what the majority of football fans think on the matter but personally I am not going to change my views based on the views of others and I am not going to stop somebody from protesting whether the majority agree with them or not. I would also never consider anybody who refused to support a specific demonstration against something as being complicit in whatever that protest was against.
"If you don't agree.....I'm sorry, you're just wrong on so many levels......but I don't care and i'm not bothered about you....you're just a nasty throw back that's dying out and will never get any support"
That's a very interesting view, especially when we consider that you have just chosen to lecture us on intolerance.