Truth be told, I’m more concerned about the disenfranchised teenage boys stabbing each other to death on our country’s streets.
Also the disproportionate numbers of black children still going missing across the UK with their parents treated as a nuisance by the authorities instead of a priority.
It is against this backdrop - and many other well-documented disgraces - that England is facing up to its shame over taking the knee.
Our international footballers are being booed by their own fans who don’t want them to even highlight racial injustice in this country ahead of matches, let alone protest against it.
It isn’t new. Premier League stars kneeling have been booed for weeks ahead of their final few games of the season.
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Gareth Southgate’s England team were booed for the second time in five days, in their final warm-up run-out before the European Championship tournament begins next weekend.
Supporters will do it again when England’s campaign begins for real next Sunday, at Wembley against Croatia.
With the eyes of the world on us, the booing of a gesture with a long history of quiet, dignified objection to racial injustice will provide an uncomfortable truth for those outraged at the idea that Britain still has a race problem.
It will also vindicate whose who have long since highlighted the issue that this country remains unable to confront.
England fans are a cross section of our society. The kind of people who threw themselves behind Marcus Rashford’s campaign to feed their children.
Yet the reality is that for critics of the knee there is simply no protest they’d find acceptable.
Those who took to the streets last summer were denounced as criminals and thugs.
Kneel and you are somehow seen as a Marxist sympathizer intent on defunding the police.
Players have been blue in the face making it clear that they are seeking racial equality, not to abolish capitalism.
Yet the die-hard critics would rather put their hands over the ears than accept black lives matter as a way of life rather than a political movement.
They actually know the difference - the distinction has been made countless times since last summer - but they are not interested.
They’d be among the first to howl their disgust, however, if fans in Bulgaria, Croatia or any other Eastern European country were to behave the same way.
They’d call for those countries to be thrown out of tournaments. The hypocrisy is real.
Don’t be fooled either by the disingenuous guff about Wilfried Zaha and other black players who don’t kneel.
They refuse to do so because of the lack of action over the issues others have been kneeling about for nearly a year.
Southgate spoke well ahead of Sunday’s game about why his team will continue performing the gesture.
He too broke it down to make clear that for his players it is about equality, not politics.
Still supporters at the game booed. You can draw your own conclusions on those still doing it.
What is not in doubt is that the country will have a mirror held up to it over the next three weeks. The results will be ugly.
