I think that you are going to steer the conversation a long way from rugby, racism and into politics with this post Wombles. Which is fine but the thread will probably degenerate.
It is clear BLM (the organisation) are a hard left anti-capitalist organisation and as such some here will have time for them and some won't. Some may think removal of funds away from the police is sensible, whilst those campaigning for greater funding for the police will think it nonsense, but the club have said they are not supporting the organisation but making a simple anti racism statement which almost all here will applaud, even if some people above clearly have misgivings about potential association with the political movement.
The club have been clear it is an anti prejudice act, not a supportive gesture for BLM the group, and I support that.
Discussing any anti capitalist group and racism normally ends up with someone on the hard left/far left crawling out from under their rock with antisemitic conspiracy theories referring to mainstream media (you know the ones) and the whole thing descends into finger pointing of who is the most prejudiced or brainwashed by MSM; no matter how many sociology professors from Greenwich you start with, it always ends up in the same place- you only have to look at the current infighting in Labour to see where it ends up- or do a search for BLM and Israel- so I won't go there besides to say that, yeah, anti-capitalist groups are still all pretty sinister to me, which is not to say I am blind to the system's faults.
I will leave the thread before it gets too political, and once again say the club are making a simple anti prejudice statement we can all (almost, if not all perhaps?) applaud.