So far lots of racist activities have been reported but the latest episode of racism is the abuse Senegalese Napoli defender, Kalidou Koulibaly, was subjected to at San Siro last Sunday.
A normally cool and composed player was forced into collecting two yellow cards and then sent off from the field.
In the game between Inter Milan and Napoli, Napoli manager, Carlo Ancelotti, disclosed after the game that they had advised the referee to stop the game, though the referee, Paolo Silvio, Mazzoleni, consider the incident not dire enough.
Ancelotti said, “Maybe we have to take matters into our own hands next time and stop play ourselves.
“They’ll probably make us lose the game if we walk off, but we are prepared to do it. It’s not good for Italian football, seeing this,” he added.
According to report, about two weeks ago, Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling was racially abused at Stamford Bridge and the blame was squarely laidon a ‘racist’ media.
Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo took to his instagram page and wrote “In the world and in football, there always needs to be education and respect. No to racism and to any sort of insult and discrimination!!!”
Also, the Former Liverpool and England forward, John Barnes, recently wrote an intellectual piece in the Guardian, pertaining to racism.
“I compare it to a cold. When we feel symptoms of a cold, we take tablets and suck sweets, and it makes us feel better, for a while. But we haven’t found a way to treat the cause, and sooner or later it will come back. With racism, it is exactly the same.”
He continued: “The same message is still being taught, and the media plays a major part in that. We, as a society view different groups of people based on the way they are reported.
“We read about Muslim grooming gangs, Jamaican Yardie gangs or Nigerian conmen, but when a group of white people are guilty of the same crimes there is no reference to race.
“If a Muslim commits a murder we cry terrorism even before we know their motivation, but if a white person does it he’s a lone wolf. Subtly and subliminally we have been given a negative perception of Nigerians, Jamaicans and Muslims.”
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