Sport, sponsors, activism and politics

[PaulP]

I think it's a fair question to ask Gina if she believes in the same things her father said.
I'd also be more than willing to apolgise for my children's behaviour up to a point where they are of an age that they can understand right from wrong and become reponsible for their own actions.
We can feel a responsibity for those close to us if our actions facilitated their wrong doings or we failed to intervene when we could have.

But I just don't belive we are responsible in any way for the actions of our ancestors.
We have no control over those deeds or actions...and in many cases our own beliefs may conflict sharply with theirs.

We can be sorry that things they were responsible for occurred...but we shouldn't bear the guilt.
It's too complex a situation because in our own ancestry there would have been many 'victims' of racism and abuse.

Personally I would try and avoid the word "guilt." It seems to me a word used in turbo mode by the right to wedge and cause trouble. I think a better word is "awareness." Simply having some awareness that social, racial, political and other structures privilege certain groups over others, and when you combine that with even a modicum of decency and empathy (and you're one of the privileged), you try and do your bit to equalise the imbalance. Even if "your bit" is something trivial like speaking up on a football forum.