Michael Holding: Impossible to completely get rid of racism
Updated On: 27 May, 2021 07:10 AM IST | London | PTI
Holding was speaking on Sky Sports` `The Cricket Show` on the first death anniversary of African-American George Floyd, who died at the hands of a white police office in the Minnesota last year
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It is impossible to completely wipe off racism from the world, feels fast bowling great Michael Holding, who would "bruise his knee" to the grave if he was still an active player but doesn`t want anyone to take the gesture as "a tick-in-the-box exercise". Holding was speaking on Sky Sports` `The Cricket Show` on the first death anniversary of African-American George Floyd, who died at the hands of a white police officer in Minnesota last year. "You will always have racism, always have racists. Getting rid of racism totally is like saying you are going to get rid of crime totally. It is impossible," Holding said during a panel discussion that also had former England captain Nasser Hussain and woman international Ebony Rainford-Brent.
"The less crime you have in your society, the less racism you have in your society, the better off the world is as we go ahead," he added. Holding feels that the gesture of "taking a knee" should be organic rather than a "tick the box" exercise but he doesn`t believe in telling people what their choices should be. "I am not going to tell people they must take a knee - I am not here to tell people what they need to do. I don`t want people to take it as a tick-in-the-box exercise. "You must want to support the cause, you must be willing to understand and see that something is wrong and this is the worldwide accepted way of showing support for the cause," he said.
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