Prejudice Casts A Shadow Over English Sport Once Again
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In about a couple of days, we have the England football crew being booed for making an enemy of bigoted motion (Report, June 3) and the leader, a man renowned for bigoted slurs against Muslim ladies, leaping to the protection of a cricketer suspended for bigot and chauvinist "jokes" posted 10 years prior (Boris Johnson joins Oliver Dowden in ECB analysis over Ollie Robinson, 7 June). Ollie Robinson truly needn't bother with companions like these.
a man wearing a cap and shades: Ollie Robinson. 'A more productive reaction would have been to arrange Robinson to do neglected instructing of children in downtown regions.' © Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian Ollie Robinson. 'A more helpful reaction would have been to arrange Robinson to do neglected instructing of children in downtown regions.'
The ones who run English cricket have skilled this chance to Boris Johnson by their ungainly treatment of the issue. Rather than prohibiting Robinson while they explore what he composed as a teen, there were different choices accessible. What do they have to examine in any case? He thought of some trash, he shouldn't have. Case over, Sherlock.
A more valuable reaction would have been to arrange Robinson to do neglected instructing of children in downtown regions. He was brought into the world in Margate, so might not have had the advantage of a multicultural adolescence, dissimilar to players like Moeen Ali (Birmingham), Joe Root (Sheffield) or Adil Rashid (Bradford).
Go to a Bradford League game on any Saturday and you will in all likelihood see a crease bowler of Asian beginning. None have at any point played for Yorkshire or England. Imagine a scenario where the current yield of youngsters were being instructed by a youthful quick bowler who had recently excused Kane Williamson in a Test match at Lords.
Tim Robinson
Bradford
• What kind of response is this from Boris Johnson about a genuine bigoted occurrence? It simply affirms that our elitist Tory pioneers are innately bigoted, maybe without acknowledging it, on the grounds that their entire culture and schooling has been and is bigoted. They are pandering to what they see as egalitarian assessment.
So the tweets were distributed seven or eight years prior. Be that as it may, they were by a 18-year-old, very mature enough to understand what he was doing. Does the public figure we ought to pardon and never revisit the activities of comparably matured fear based oppressors and attackers so rapidly. I think not.
How is it possible that the would ECB keep up to non-white cricketers that English cricket is non-bigot on the off chance that it had not suspended Robinson. I'm certain he is sorry at this point. Obviously he is, it impacts his entire vocation. Yet, has he changed his perspectives and character so completely? In the event that he is actually a changed man, he would invite his suspension as a demonstration of repentance.
Pat Staples
Southampton
• The judgment and suspension of Ollie Robinson serves to feature something dreadful that the "honest" in our social conflicts frequently double-cross: a craving to rebuff and even annihilate those whom they consider blameworthy of improper idea or deed, regularly of the most paltry nature.
Robinson has apologized and without a doubt is feeling absurd and reprimanded, which should open the entryway for a word not regularly heard: leniency. This indicates both liberality and pardoning, and is probably going to have significantly more advantage to the beneficiary than discipline and social expulsion.
Patrick Brittain
Brighton, East Sussex
• I would be thankful if Lee Anderson MP could clarify how England players taking the knee before football matches "subverts our very lifestyle" (Tory MP to blacklist England games in line over taking the knee, 6 June).
John Wray
London
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