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Recently John Barnes, who seems to be the bete noire  of the 'You can't say anything these days brigade' recently wrote on the subject and was , sadly unsurprisingly, subjected to the diatribes all over social media, particularly football forums including the normally 'right on' Celtic ones, a club of course, where he had a terrible time as manager.
Those criticising him fell into that  modern day trap of reading a headline , or a forum thread title , without actually bothering to read up on what the bloke wrote.
On Celtic forums the twist tending to veer towards comments along the lines of 'He didn't get sacked because he was black, it was because he was s**te'. Yet in the article, Barnes acknowledged that his position at Celtic was untenable and he deserved the sack. I found it staggering and pretty heart-breaking, that despite several people pointing out what Barnes actually wrote, people still chose to stick with their original narrative. None of this is helped of course by much of the media who like to put their own little bit of spin on a story, knowing full well, they even if they tell bare faced lies. the worst that will happen is probably a minuscule apology tucked away in the small print.
Barnes main point was that failed black managers don't get many other chances to prove themselves, whereas as white managers do and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that may be true. 
There is an unconscious bias at play, I am sure many of us have heard the -ridiculous- old one about black players not being able to perform in the cold, winter months and I even sat next to a Rovers plane on a plane once who told me who black players 'don't like being kicked'  and when he played, he would always make sure he laid into any black players on the opposition! Even when I tried to remain civil and said 'I don't think anyone likes being kicked mate' he went into some bizarre theory about why having brown skin made you more susceptible to it!
Luckily in the professional game there seem to be no such visible prejudices now . It also wasn't that long ago that the lack of Asians playing football was put down to the fact that 'they prefer cricket' , we know  now this is also clearly a load of old bollocks

Anyway, after all that, I don't think taking a knee will make a blind bit of difference, and I don't know what will. Let's just hope that one day people will be judged fairly and not on their skin tone or what school they went to ( I think the latter one may be the main stumbling block!)