FC Barcelona and Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has explained why he is unhappy with the debate around Wilfried Zaha's decision to stop taking a knee before the start of Premier League matches.
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The 43-year-old recently deleted his social media profiles in protest of such platforms' lacklustre approach to anonymous racism.
Henry has now also insisted that the debate over players taking a knee has shifted the focus away from its actual cause, which was to address racial discrimination.
"There was the debate recently about taking the knee or standing, but that's not the debate. That's not the cause," he told CNN Sport.
"The cause is: what are you going to do for it to be better for everybody? Equality. Everybody, and obviously I'm going to talk about my community.
"I thought kneeling was a strong message and we all know where it comes from, but then the discussion moved to: are we standing or are we kneeling?
"What about the cause? What about the main point of why we are doing it in the first place? Or why we still have to do it? That's something for me that is very important and we keep on forgetting about it."
Zaha stopped taking a knee before games because he felt it was becoming a repetitive symbol that was not leading to any real action being taken.
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