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I’ve just had the acknowledgement, no reply as such.
When I am seeing a group of Cardiff City fans attacking groups of Asian youths in succession for no apparent reason and chanting racist insults in the progress, I don't stop and try to analyse whether they planned to do it before they left Cardiff or did it on the spur of the moment whilst they were marauding around the streets of the away town. It makes no difference anyway, either way it is still racially motivated assault. I never said there was incidence of attacks on black people. I was aware that a number of our hooligans were black (as far as I know none were of Asian descent) and what I witnessed in my travels were mainly attacks on Asian people. The things that I witnessed against black people from our fans were mainly verbal or provocation in grounds, not fights outside. There was a lot of antagonism and rivalry between Black and Asian people in those days and I guess that fuelled the situations I saw. The black members of our hooligan gangs would have been more than keen to ‘take on’ any Asians they came across as a result. Perhaps they were leading it - who knows. I agree over the mural being nothing but a good thing by the way but see it from the clubs point of view as well. They have done a lot of good things in the community in recent years.
Unsurprisingly, Blakey didn’t hold back in the podcast where the person behind the My City, My Shirt project repeated the reverse racism comment - that allegation has been in the public domain for some time now and the lack of a denial from the club in that time rather proves a point surely.
WOL have given it serious coverage!
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...g-new-20308377
I followed Cardiff home and away during the late 70s through to the late 80s and can honestly say I have never seen any racially targeted violence - basically just a bunch of dick heads looking for trouble and being indiscriminate ironically at who the target was including trying to fight their own fans if they came across them in an away game and wasn't sure where they were from (personal experience twice)
The saddest thing for me is that a really good opportunity to increase the reach of the club and extend its fan base is being lost and this thread has highlighted the impact that hooligans have had and are still having on this club as it is still being discussed not only by us but by others about our club.
How long will it take for our club to lose this shameful tag??
What I didn't realise is that this project is even bigger than I thought. I posted photos of the street-art in Butetown but there are posters all over the city! I'm not kidding, this kind of publicity would cost a fortune if organised through a PR company.
I'm even more annoyed now. I haven't received any reply from the club yet. My other half is mailing everyone she can find a contact for as I'm doubtful many of the senior management team (or players) know/knew about this (which is ironic).
I can't believe we've scored such an own goal. It's enbarassing.
Here's a link to how big this is https://bricksmagazine.co.uk/2020/11...m-in-football/
For information re earlier discussion and poster's comments - here's a link to Cardiff City's Diversity & Equality page and on this page is a link to our Diversity & Equality policy https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/club/diversity-equality
Just to clarify, the steet-art in Butetown is the latest installment and has only just gone up - the street-posters, as far as I know, aren't up anymore.
On this page Sludge are three relevant emails (I don't want to post them on here) - they're under:
Contact Us (which is a catch-all club email I've used previously and marked FAO insert name and title
Fan Engagement i.e. the Fan Engagement Officer (her name and email is there)
Community Foundation (their email is there too),
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/club/visit-contact-us
Hi, just to clarify, there's no doubt as to origin of the quote 'reverse racism' which is what this discussion should be all about. The article in https://bricksmagazine.co.uk/2020/11...m-in-football/ written by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin is comprehensive and cites the job title of the person Yusuf had a meeting with and as I've said, I spoke to him personally the other day - so, as I've stated earlier, I'm satisfied as to the source.
I made a point in my first post of not wanting to name anyone - my fear being that this is not a place for doing so and neither should we be personalising the issue. This is a Cardiff City FC issue and it is for them to address it.
Let's not lose ourselves in side-issues when we should be focussing on the missed opportunities and the fact that the club clearly needs to engage and discuss with creatives like Yusuf and the local community in a more informed and contemporary fashion.
I've removed the posts where names were mentioned and some crappy comments made.
Apologies. Still shameful from the club though.
let's hope the reasonable and constructive e mails are listened to
If they are not and nothing is done we will know that the club is not paying lip service to the issue of inclusion , its actively acting against it
If thats the case then its time to question ones loyalty to CCFC
I think in life you have morals and principles and if CCFC just brush this vital issue away then I will support the team but not the club