A top Russian official — who adjudicates in racism cases in the country — has sensationally claimed that black players are
not victims of racism, if they respond to the abuse with an offensive gesture, according to the Guardian.
Not exact matches
To smear Daum in this way is totally diminish the meaning
of the word
racism into nonbeing, and to do a disservice to those
victims of real —
not imagined —
racism.
While tribal loyalty towards your club and players is all too common and understandable in the world
of football, this episode really doesn't paint Reds fans in a great light as they essentially hurled abuse at a player who'd been the
victim of racism — an evil that all fans in the game should be united in wanting to stamp out.
I'm
not the only black person who has been the
victim of racism and if I'm here it's
not only to denounce what I've been through but it's for all the black people across the world facing it, everywhere, be it in France, London, the US... It has to stop.
«The problem
of police killings
of unarmed black
victims should
not be viewed merely as a problem
of flawed action on the part
of individual police officers, but more as a consequence
of the broader problem
of structural
racism,» said senior author Michael Siegel, professor
of community health sciences at BUSPH.
Frequently, race - issue films act as if black
victims of racism don't matter at all; Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987), about South African leader Stephen Biko, is focused almost entirely on Kevin Kline's fleeing journalist.
It has scenes
of powerful emotion, but because
of its large cast, it is more about ideas than lives, especially the idea that in a multicultural society,
racism is more complex than we like to think, and doesn't sort its
victims into the good and the evil but finds everyone can be a little
of both.
It would
not, so we are really just exacerbating the deeper tragedies
of our society and distracting everyone with test scores and beating up on the
victims of poverty,
racism, and injustice.
Black people don't have money to waste traveling only to be
victims of racism overseas when at least we can be
victims that take advantage
of the 2nd Amendment to defend ourselves in AmeriKKKa.
Does this ruling give any hope to people who are
victim of racism but whose reputation is, in the eyes
of the law,
not «worth» the same as a world - renowned academic?
When that's applied to us, there is danger that it might «blame the
victims» and might
not account for significant contributing factors such as the history
of colonisation, ongoing poverty and
racism, and the need for local community ownership and partnerships.