It's generally white people in jobs like mine who get to pronounce on the whys and wherefores of players taking a knee and contributing to the fight for racial tolerance and equality.
But how could we possibly know how it felt to be Ian Wright - reported to the FA by Millwall in 1995 and accused of 'an outburst' after complaining about racist abuse he always suffered at The Den? Or Antonio Rudiger - told he must have misheard things when subjected to monkey noises at Tottenham a year ago this week? Or that generation of players who ran a gauntlet of hate in the benighted '70s and '80s?