ACE (Cricket charidee)
A new charity, helped with an initial donation of over half a million pounds from Sport England (which means it’s paid by taxpayers and the National Lottery), has been set up to get more black people into professional cricket.
Apparently, it’s racist that there are so few professional black cricketers in England nowadays. The Chair of the charity, the insufferable Emily Rainsford Brent, is quick to point out the positive influence of the Black Lives Matter movement if you read the link. This one is after a Damehood by constantly playing the chippy race card. You can see it a mile off. Nothing will ever be enough, of course.
I’m a little torn on this, as I’m glad to see an initiative that may stop some black youths from joining gangs, but on balance, I’m annoyed with it.
Why? Well, i think the lack of black kids taking up cricket is mostly because until very recently, cricket wasn’t shown on terrestrial TV like it was before Sky existed. A lack of exposure comes into this. Black kids like football and black music nowadays. They’re just not into cricket.
A big factor though, is that cricket is an expensive sport to take up. The gear is expensive and you need a car/driver if you’re a kid, to lug the gear with you. Therefore, working class kids (of all colours) can be excluded from the sport.
Why not have the charity aimed at helping all working class kids get a chance of playing/coaching cricket?
Oh of course, allowing poor white kids an opportunity would be racist, wouldn’t it?
Let’s take a scenario:
John and Bob sit next to each other at school. They live next door to each other on a council estate. Both are from poor families. They are best mates. Bob is black, John is white. They watch the cricket World Cup Final on Channel 4 together (a one-off for terrestrial TV) and want to try cricket, but can’t afford the gear and can’t get to the venues anyway (no family car).
Bob can get the gear, professional coaching, the chance to play in a team and a lift to practice/matches, all for free because he is black. John meanwhile, can go fuck himself, because he’s white.
This is equality, is it?
I do not appreciate my tax money going towards a racist charity like this, which is seemingly staffed by blacks only too.
Fuck this bullshit.
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Nominated by: Cuntybollocks