Iām not. If something genuinely racist was said the players did the right thing walking off the pitch.
Why mention his race at all? He said āthis black guyā and as Demba Ba has pointed out, thereās no way heād have said āthis white guyā if referring to one of the white subs. Stupid comment anyway. Ignorant more than anything probably.
Definitely not the right way of saying it, but I donāt think it merited walking off the pitch.
Now something worse may have been said so itās speculation at this point.
Demba Ba took offense to it. He was referred to by his race for absolutely no reason.
Iād walk off with him for it
I think it does. A referee referring to you by the colour of your skin for no reason at all is completely unacceptable.
If there was 7 black lads in a line and 1 white guy and I didnāt know their names Iād say it the white guy if asked to point him out.
The world is gone completely mad. I hear in some schools teachers canāt say he or she anymore in case the child is gender neutral.
NegrƩ could be a local colloquialism
Thatās fair enough if he did. Iād stand by a teammate too.
For my vantage point Iād say it wasnāt racist but Iāve no idea of the tone. If, in a crowd of white men with one black man present, I referred to one as the āblack guyā if consider it more descriptive than racist.
Your comparison is stupid. Youāre ignoring the race of the referee and ignoring the history of racism against people of colour. And ignoring you fact there werenāt 6 white subs and 1 black guy.
Can you refer to someoneās race at all so? Is race one of those things we should pretend to ignore?
If someone calls out a ginger is that racist? Asking for a friend
No. You donāt ignore race obviously. But a referee using it to refer to a player for no reason at all is simply wrong.
The fourth official clearly forgot his white privilege here
Was his number visible?
Do you support Millwall too?
Ffs
If the roles were reversed and somebody said the white guy and the players walked off the field people would be laughing their heads off. Itās nonsense.
Demba Ba is black. It isnāt racist to call a black person black or a white person white. Itās pure nonsense.
I think we are getting into ridiculous territory if you canāt describe a black man as a black man.
If Demba Ba felt it was racist or said in a racist manner thatās fair enough. Iām just making the general point.