As you wake up, in a country awash with racist abuse flung at our heroic players by white supremacist idiots, and ask "why?" just read Du Bois ... 
When I went undercover on the Churchill statue demo last summer, it was the same manbaby masculinity on show outside Wembley now: open, ingrained racism, xenophobic nationalism, pointless violence. Total losers...
The behaviour is produced by two things: structures and ideologies - but HMG says structural racism doesn't exist - and nobody in politics wants to talk about working class racism...
Anyone who wonders why our players took the knee, and was it necessary, just got a swift and brutal education: football *has* to rid itself of its fatal attraction for white supremacists
... a few of them will poison the atmosphere, because their online abuse and offline chanting ALWAYS carries the threat of violence ... yet they are a minority... F.A. response a clear signal to them - not wanted in game
... here's what I wrote after the DFLA demo - seems very relevant today...
newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
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