This is finally being spoken about due to the incident with Raheem Sterling on the weekend at Chelsea and additionally with Raheem's comments on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrKYvF3gH9e/
Black players are treated with utter contempt in the Newspapers. Every little thing they do is scrutinised but the past few years Sterling has to bare the brunt of this racism. Yes it is racism.
https://twitter.com/adamkeyworth/status/1001218545588502530
This thread sums it up for me, 30+ stories on Raheem in the rags. One for getting a budget airline. One for buying his mum a house. Another for driving a dirty car. The worst one is where his gun tattoo was mentioned in an article on the weekend where two young males were stabbed. Where is the link or correlation?!
Racism still exists in football, let's not be beat around the bush. The past two weekends has highlighted this more than ever. Last week Aubameyang had a banana thrown at him mid game, it was swept under the carpet within 2 days.
Not much has changed since the days of the 1980's and the monkey chants. The media are not helping at all.
The Treatment of Black Players in the Media
posted on 10/12/18
comment by Stranglers (U21996)
posted 3 minutes ago
Busby surely you don’t think that those guys from the 80’s have grown up and started reading the Guardian?
As if the guy yesterday was waiting for Sterling but lets Lukaku off the hook?
He is racist for life.
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I think it's fair to say the vast majority of people born post 1980 aren't racist.
That one guy caught shouting racist remarks is, in my experience, the exception to the rule.
I see a multitude of races, regions and cultures at OT every week and I'm yet to see an issue at the ground.
posted on 10/12/18
Don't forget Aubameyang had a Banana thrown at him the other week.
posted on 10/12/18
I see a multitude of races, regions and cultures at OT every week and I'm yet to see an issue at the ground.
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You might not see it but the loss of identity for the closed minded fan is never far away.
The sight of the Sikhs next to the United bench must be a bitter pill for them to swallow.
Its a really sad state of affairs that it is part of society and it will never go away.
posted on 10/12/18
"The sight of the Sikhs next to the United bench must be a bitter pill for them to swallow."
Why must it? What are you basing this on?
posted on 10/12/18
The reason at the heart of this illness. That one race feels it is superior over another.
posted on 10/12/18
Racism is a two way street. It's a concept that's apparently difficult to understand when it shouldn't be. That's why I hate identity politics and people have gone too far down the rabbit hole with that silly nonsense.
Everyone's either a racist or a liar. Can be both but can't be neither. If you think racist is too strong of a word, you can SMD.
posted on 10/12/18
comment by Lucas Torreira (U8691)
posted 9 hours, 1 minute ago
The media in this country are a cancer, that will never change.
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I really do believe if the media left the subject alone, we could sort ourselves out.
posted on 11/12/18
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 day ago
comment by Stranglers (U21996)
posted 2 minutes ago
As if a football fan who is not racist becomes racist by reading the Daily Mail, come on!
Do some fans hate Lukaku because he is black - yes.
Do some fans hate Lukaku because he is clumsy - yes.
Do some fans who hate Lukaku because he is clumsy decide to hate him because he is black after reading the papers - no.
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This strikes me as a bit simplistic. There are a few foaming at the mouth racists out there but is there any evidence of a sizeable number of people who actively hate Lukaku because he's black?
The racism of stereotypical associations is a far more prevalent phenomenon today than "I hate black people" racism. To take the Lukaku example, the misguided chant that made racially-driven claims about the size of his genitalia involved a large number of fans (and was defended by a larger still number outside the stadium). You'd never a mass chant in a stadium today telling him to go home to Africa, and you'd struggle to find anyone outside the right-wing fringe movements of our politics defending that. Sterling's comment about racism is also targeting this insidious way of projecting things onto people of colour, not about blanket hate. And today's tabloid media is very definitely complicit in perpetuating stereotypes and racial associations.
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Red Russian; this is the best comment i've seen on this topic in any forum, football or otherwise. Cant put it any better. Anyone who doesnt understand what Sterling is talking about, just read this comment a few times.
posted on 11/12/18
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posted on 11/12/18
The guys that Sterling refers to doesn't seem like racism to me. My take is that the story is about a young player that has a huge amount of money and has never played a premiership game.
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again what has the fact he hasn't played a game got anything to do with what he buys? would buying a house be suddenly ok if he had 1 sub appearance? both players brought a house for their mum but only 1 of the stories mentioned it in their headline, again its not direct(it generally never will be) but subtle context in how a story is put out
did the paper attack city for giving him those wages?
would anybody turn down that sort of money and just say oh no ive not played a game yet I don't deserve that?
its not really new news that youngsters have millions of pounds at a young age in football these days so the story wasn't really breaking any new ground was it