71: How Can Football Fight Racism?

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Patrick is joined by Sam Obaseki to talk about football's response to the global political protests following the killing of George Floyd. We discuss the contribution of players, clubs, and football authorities to the process of removing racism both from the game and society, and the steps we, as fans, can take to move towards racial justice.

If you can, please consider signing petitions (for example those seeking justice for Shukri Abdi and Belly Mujinga), and writing to politicians or even your football club to demand specific commitments on tackling these problems. Whatever you've heard, sport has always been political, and governments and businesses can be forced to change their behaviour if we exert enough pressure.

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0:00.0	It's extra time.
0:02.0	Shoot and it's a girl!
0:04.0	Hello and welcome back to the Extra Time podcast.
0:08.0	I'm your host Patrick Van Stratton and today I'm joined by Sam Obasaki.
0:12.0	Is this your first time on the podcast, Sam?
0:13.2	No, this is, I think this is my third time maybe, but my first time during quarantine, so this is a different experience.
0:21.6	Yeah, it is. And today we are going to be talking about what is clearly the most important topic we've ever spoken
0:27.2	about, which is racism in football.
0:32.0	Now obviously we expect that everybody will have seen the global protests and this time it feels different. In the past we've obviously seen large protests before but sometimes they've been principally confined to the USA or they've only centered on that particular act of violence but this time we've seen a worldwide movement really retain its momentum.
0:55.8	So as well as protests against police brutality and negligence, we're also seeing it linked
1:01.9	to the conversation about white privilege and people examining
1:05.5	their own racial biases, their own privilege. And there are loads of important petitions
1:10.4	that we're seeing popping up online, not just about justice for people like Shukri Abdi and George Floyd, but also about proposals to change GCC reading syllabuses, to change the way that history is taught in our schools to reflect this country
1:25.2	and other countries histories with slavery, colonialism and imperialism.
1:31.1	Now obviously we don't expect today that we're going to be able to talk to you
1:34.1	about race in every country overall so what we wanted to do today is take a moment as
1:40.4	members of the community of football fans to examine racism in football and the
1:46.4	role that it can play in combating racism in larger society.
1:51.3	Because I think often there are parts of the country where people's
1:57.0	major exposure to people of other races is through sports.
2:00.8	Yeah, there are people who for instance might not go to a school with other people with people of other races
2:07.1	But if they support football their club will have players of other races on it and as a result I think that it should be a really
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