Black Lives Matter? Eh?

[Gandalf]

Reading this entire thread does nothing more than make me feel sorry for Denilson.

I think sometimes he even makes fairly astute observations. I don't think denigrating and abusing him is going to do anything more than make him dig in with his fairly entrenched positions on race and power.

Your right he does make good points at times but it is also clear to see that his warped view of racism has consumed him, he lumps all white people together and believes each and every person to be racist which is a massive generalisation and racist in itself.

I don't have a problem, with him going at it hammer and tongs in this thread but it's when it spills out into his other posts on the forum, he sometimes struggles to make a single post without bring 'the black man' into it, as I say he is completely consumed with his own racism and can't even let it go when speaking with a bunch of faceless people online about people he will never know, he isn't going to change the world by spouting off at every opportunity on a boxing forum, he isn't going to achieve anything other than mildly annoy the odd person.

Having said that this thread does appear to be helping him out because he hasn't really been having any underhanded digs about race in the boxing section of the forum whilst all of his energy has been going into this one

It is a bit silly to say that we are all racist as we obviously aren't. I think half the forum is married to someone of a different race, so it's funny hearing the xenophobe/racist/sexist jibes that are all too common around here. At the same time though I find it hard to be offended by anything Denilson says. There are good points, but like you say to define everything in the world through a prism of race is a bit self defeating. It's an obvious issue, but most people are not against you. Open your eyes a little wider and even an 'enemy' can become a friend.