Saturday, October 28, 2017

Soccer Team Mocks Anne Frank; Houston Astro Mocks Asian LA Dodger


This week, racism reached new lows in two professional sports.
In Italy, fans of the Lazio soccer team used large Anne Frank pictures as part of a slur against a rival, Team Roma. 
The idea they were conveying? You are sub-human; you are dead; you are weak; you deserve to be demeaned. 
To demonstrate contrition, the team wore shirts of Anne Franke, with the statement, “No Anti-Semitism.”
That’s a start—but the Lazio fans have an ingrained culture of anti-Semitism. In 2001, the fans displayed a large banner, aimed at Team Roma: “Auschwitz is Your Home Land: The Ovens Are Your Homes.”
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In last night’s World Series game, major league baseball reached a new low as Yuli Gurriel made a slant-eyed gesture and shouted a racial slur at Yu Darvish, son of a Japanese mother.
Racism in America has returned; it has also returned globally. The first step to address it is to call it out.

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