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Mikey is a great believer in education, and hopes that if the truth of Black history is taught to everybody then trust and respect will flower where now there is ignorance and hatred.

He can work on a shoe string budget, with limited players and under difficult circumstances - he can even rock a Jesus beard like you wouldn’t believe. It’s a valuable book for exploring Black achievements through history which are startling in their omission from education curricula. Why We Kneel, How We Rise' is a beautiful book, a powerful book, a heartbreaking book, an inspiring book. The truth might just be that Mikey wanted to spend more time playing with his grandkids, tending to his garden, and taking walks with his wife to the beach. It's maddening to see people still making excuses and refusing to face the fact that our history books are biased and our society discriminative.

I agree that this is what it looks like, but it is the other half we have not heard about throughout our lives. In the history taught to British children, black people only enter the picture with slavery, all the civilisations before this are ignored. He adds: 'To say I was surprised at the volume of positive feedback I received from around the world after my comments on Sky Sports is an understatement.

Sportspersons might make individual gestures on particular occasions or even share their experiences, but writing a full-length book like this, they'd avoid. This book was definitely hard to read at times, but I’m glad it was recommended to me and I’m glad I read it. In summary, an emotional read that should be read by everyone, especially those who think 'White Lives Matter Too". Our kids need to know about how badly people of color have been treated over the years, about all the brilliant and strong and brave people whose achievements were erased or stolen by white men, about how we are more alike than we are different. In this book, Mikey interviews leading black and indigenous athletes of contemporary times, all of whom are legends in their fields, and asks them to share their experiences when they were discriminated against because of their race.Mikey dives deeper into the history of white supremacy and describes slavery as a symptom of the problem and not the core problem itself, which is dehumanization.

Michael Holding explains how racism affects different places and people, what terms like white-privilege, white-washing, Black Lives Matter mean and the politics behind the movement. He saved Bristol City from the drop after an amazing 8 game unbeaten run and for reasons beyond his control was sadly unable to replicate that the season after.

I'm not sure the wider population were ever conscious of what was happening in far-flung lands, let alone aware of the atrocities that were taking place. If you teach a young Black kid about Septimius Severus, the first Black emperor of the Roman Empire, or show them how the Moors educated and enlightened Europe, or describe the bravery of the Black Rattlers or the brilliance of Lewis Howard Latimer, what do you think happens to their self-esteem? The other was the fact that countries with British-derived cultures pursued racism by law and policy until so recently.