[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The NHL is protesting the death of another Black man at the hands of the police, another example in the ongoing issue of deep rooted racism both in the police force and in America in general. It is not racist to defend the police. It is not racist to look down on those who have committed crimes. It is not racist to condemn rioting and looting. But, it is racist to reserve the entirely of your outrage and criticism towards a Black man shot in the back seven times, while shrugging off a White killer. The NHL is just one small example of protesting racism, and we can pretend that this racism doesn’t exist if we want, I guess. But eventually, while defending the police who kill Black men again and again, we must recognise we’re defending racism.

I’m a disagreeable person. I’ve disagreed with hundreds of posters on this board I’m sure. I don’t call someone who disagrees with me on a Bennett trade scenario or who best to lead this country, racist. I call racism as it is. As everyone should. And if someone doesn’t want to confront their own racism, they don’t have to. But racism is what it is. My opinion or yours doesn’t change it.

There you go with emotion over fact again. Sorry, couldn’t resist.