Cast your mind back to April 2017. Pepsi pull their “tone deaf” advert featuring Kendall Jenner. Seemingly alluding to the Black Lives Matter movement, the ad shows Jenner resolving a police stand-off with a group of protestors by presenting a stone-faced officer a 330ml can of the sweet stuff. The screen reads: “Live bolder. Live […]
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Should politics and sport mix?
With the 2017 NFL season fully underway, it would appear the league has become something far more than just a sporting stage, but a way to give voice and national awareness to social issues. NFL players began protesting in 2016 by kneeling during the National Anthem. The quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Colin Kaepernick, […]
Kneeling to take a stand: Colin Kaepernick and the Anthem Protests
Just over a month has passed since the San Francisco 49ers player, Colin Kaepernick, refused to stand for the national anthem at a pre-season game against the Green Bay Packers. Kaepernick’s refusal sparked extensive backlash across America, including criticisms for his lack of patriotism and for disrespecting his country, the military, police officers and the […]
Making sense of the Black Lives Matter movement
The least disputable measure of a bad week is any seven-day period that requires a body count at the end of it. More common than the deaths of Dallas police officers are the unwarranted killings by police of two black men, Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana. I’d like to think that […]
Exe’s racial equality examined
F igures released to Exeposé have offered an insight into diversity at the University, revealing that the number of Black, Minority or Ethnic (BME) students has fallen year on year since 2012. Last year, just 18.6 per cent of the entire student population identified as BME, an overall decrease of nearly 10 per cent since […]