Pay Up! Pay Up! and play the Game.

I became politicised on the journey towards and in prison. The first book I read from the excellent prison library was the True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey. It came to me all of a sudden this morning that we have two nations playing Le Rugby at Twickers (HQ) who were complicit in the removal of  'so called Undesirables' from one to the other in the late 18th to the late 19th century. 162,000 convicts were transported between 1788 and 1868 some of these 'political prisoners' three of these being  John Frost, Zephaniah Williams, and William Jones, the Chartist leaders transported to Tasmania in the aftermath of the Newport rising of 1839. I write this post in light of David Cameron's recent refusal to pay monetary reparations to Jamaica. He will build a prison instead. I am one of these unscientific, intuitive types who believe that 'Trauma' is carried in the D.N.A. Where 'collective trauma' has occurred in history be it slavery or convict transportation, it has involved the oppression of one class, of one race over the other class of it's own or other races. Anger, and Oppression is carried in the genes and it is called resentment. Capitalists and Sugar Traders call it jealousy. They will claim that everybody benefits in the end. 
In prison, I was one of very few white men.The Dutch as a Colonial nation had prisoners from Curacao and Dutch Guyana. There was a high population of Muslims during my time there. Historically white men of status decide what to do with people of no status who dare to challenge their privileged position of power.
I don't agree with people who say "Keep Politics out of Sport" All of life is political, even the game of 'Bread & Circuses' devised by the ruling Romans to distract their own populace. Whatever anthems are sung today, God Save the Queen and Advance Australia Fair I wonder how many of those singing it will consider that their own ancestors, their own D.N.A was oppressed by the very establishment that they are honoring. Not many I'll wager.