South Africa vs West Indies at Dubai: Matchday thread; Early Game Tue 26/10

[RossTaylorsBox]

It's more like:

"Racists killed a lot of innocent people and created a country which massively oppressed non-white people to the point where other countries refused to play sport with us for decades."
"What should we do?"
"We won't let this guy play a game of cricket."

 

[Dendarii]

And more importantly, why tf were players informed like 4 hours beforehand that they are mandated to do this? If they actually thought this was somehow effective or believed that this symbolism had an actual impact, shouldn't they have done this early? Or did it just suddenly dawn on them like few hours before the match?

If CSA only sent through the directive on Monday afternoon/evening, the next time the players would have all been together would have been four hours before the match. This was a reaction to the criticism received for not all of the players taking the knee before Saturday's match, so if CSA only met to discuss it on Monday then I don't know that they could have got the message to the team any sooner.

 

[Victor Ian]

The most annoying thing about these useless Windies is that they will turn it on against my team. ****s!

 

[Aritro]

Yeah their next two or three opponents are gonna get ****en lamped.

 

[Tiberius]

Maybe de Kock thinks the narrative that police roll through poor neighbourhoods looking for Blacks to execute is bull****. God knows I do.

 

[morbidflorist]

Maybe de Kock thinks the narrative that police roll through poor neighbourhoods looking for Blacks to execute is bull****. God knows I do.

That's probably the ****test possible take

 

[Aritro]

Maybe de Kock thinks the narrative that police roll through poor neighbourhoods looking for Blacks to execute is bull****. God knows I do.

Almost as bad as the unicorns roll through public parks looking for dragons and griffins to fellate narrative.

Complete bull****, and yet, so commonly peddled by the woke media and the woke crowd

 

[Aritro]

QdK's stance is popular with readers of SA Cricket Magazine.

 

[slippy888]

Just take the knee ffs what happen to DE Kock guys

 

[Burgey]

I like that SA Cricket Mag is pumping up the positive response to De Kock's stance agaisnt wokeism while at the same time calling him a "Wicketkeeper-batter".

 

[Victor Ian]

If I was de Kock I wouldn't want to take the knee either.

 

[Burgey]

How come?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Love to read complaints about overreacting wokeness when literally last week there was an article about a judge sending black kids to jail for no reason.

 

[honestbharani]

How come?

Play on his name, dude.

 

[Bahnz]

Reports coming out from Journo's close to de Kock that he's against being required to take a knee because he thinks it's a token gesture that achieves less than the work he does with young black cricketers.

 

[honestbharani]

I guess it is a valid view but IMHO, this is very much meant to be a token gesture. The hope is that there are many who are not well informed about racism around the world at least some percent of whom may take to doing some research and learning and hopefully that way, the knowledge spreads.

 

[Chewie]

whynotboth.jpeg

 

[Dendarii]

He's got a point, but it's still a weird stance to take. Does he really object to the tokenness so much that he's willing to jeopardise his career over it?

 

[StephenZA]

Love to read complaints about overreacting wokeness when literally last week there was an article about a judge sending black kids to jail for no reason.

Be careful of comparing a SA viewpoint to what goes on in America. The anger in SA is because of a failing country, where a majority of politicians like to use race and past history as an easy excuse in having failed to do the basics well.

SA is the only democratic country where written into the constitution it is allowed for the majority to have race based policy against the minority.

 

[Burgey]

Be careful of comparing a SA viewpoint to what goes on in America. The anger in SA is because of a failing country, where a majority of politicians like to use race and past history as an easy excuse in having failed to do the basics well

I mean, that's literally America.