Liverpool's first black player turns down MBE
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Liverpool's first black player turns down MBE
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Howard Gayle turns down MBE because it would be ‘betrayal of Africans’
• Liverpool’s first black player says ‘ancestors would turn in graves’
• ‘Empire and colonialism had enslaved them’ he adds
Liverpool’s first black player, Howard Gayle, has said he turned down a nomination for an MBE because it would be a betrayal of all the Africans who had suffered under the British empire.
The Toxteth-born footballer, 58, who also played for Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Birmingham City, Halifax Town, Sunderland, Newcastle United and Stoke City, posted the decision on his Facebook page.
He wrote: “Most of you who are on my FB page are aware of the work that I do tackling racism and the work I do for Show Racism A Red Card. And for that work yesterday I was nominated for a MBE. Which unfortunately I had to decline the nomination for the reason that my ancestors would be turning in their graves after how empire and colonialism had enslaved them.
“This is a decision that I have had to make and there will be others who may feel different and would enjoy the attraction of being a Member of the British Empire and those three letters after their name, but I feel that it would be a betrayal to all of the Africans who have lost their lives, or who have suffered as a result of empire.”
Howard Gayle turns down MBE because it would be ‘betrayal of Africans’
• Liverpool’s first black player says ‘ancestors would turn in graves’
• ‘Empire and colonialism had enslaved them’ he adds
Liverpool’s first black player, Howard Gayle, has said he turned down a nomination for an MBE because it would be a betrayal of all the Africans who had suffered under the British empire.
The Toxteth-born footballer, 58, who also played for Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Birmingham City, Halifax Town, Sunderland, Newcastle United and Stoke City, posted the decision on his Facebook page.
He wrote: “Most of you who are on my FB page are aware of the work that I do tackling racism and the work I do for Show Racism A Red Card. And for that work yesterday I was nominated for a MBE. Which unfortunately I had to decline the nomination for the reason that my ancestors would be turning in their graves after how empire and colonialism had enslaved them.
“This is a decision that I have had to make and there will be others who may feel different and would enjoy the attraction of being a Member of the British Empire and those three letters after their name, but I feel that it would be a betrayal to all of the Africans who have lost their lives, or who have suffered as a result of empire.”
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Re: Liverpool's first black player turns down MBE
I red it as- Liverpools first black player, Turndown Mbe 
i was coming in to find out whether he played for the eagles with that first name
i was coming in to find out whether he played for the eagles with that first name"it is better to be excited now and disappointed later, than it is to be disappointed now and later." - Marcus Aurelius, 178AD
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Re: Liverpool's first black player turns down MBE
Respect to Howard Gayle 
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