Tapping the Testicle: My experience with institutional racism
In a previous article, I argued for 'tap the testicle' to replace 'take the knee' as the England men's team principle gesture of anti-racism. As a feminist alternative, I also suggested 'tap the tit' as a gesture for the women's game once the football season re-starts in August.
In a previous article, I argued for 'tap the testicle' to replace 'take the knee' as the England men's team principle gesture of anti-racism. As a feminist alternative, I also suggested 'tap the tit' as a gesture for the women's game once the football season re-starts in August.
The gesture combines ingenuity with modesty, bravery with dignity, and this summer I can see it having the same impact as 'take the knee' did in 2020.
Last week, I attempted a demonstration of a ‘tap the testicle’ protest at a female student soccer match near Dulwich. My intention was to demonstrate this new anti-racist gesture to the world, dismantling white supremacist culture.
Just to prove my point, I was then apprehended by a racist local militia who self-label as the ‘Metropolitan Police’, egged on by angry locals, deploying the centuries-old racist stereotype of black men sexually harassing white girls.
Naturally, the authorities have continued their attempts to silence me. I was informed by officers that exposing myself at a girls football game was "not an appropriate form of political protest". Yet nobody could explain why taking the knee is acceptable but tapping the testicle is not.
In fact, when I demanded the young WPC to get on her knees in front of me to prove she was not racist, she acted offended. I was then arrested for using sexually suggestive language to a police officer, further proof of the institutional racism identified by MacPherson.
Every great civil rights movement has faced resistance. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela were all arrested. I proudly join them in the cells for demonstrating anti-racism to a bewildered women's football team in Dulwich.
The police may have detained me, but they cannot keep an idea locked away. Nelson Mandela proved that.
Rosa Parks had a seat she could sit on.
Martin Luther King had a dream he pursued.
I have a testicle I can tap.
History will decide which proved most influential.
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