Michael Holding calls for more sportspersons to speak out against racism

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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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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."