Diaby target of racist abuse

Shits well and truly going to hit the fan about this next week, when we beat them mardy basturds on Saturday, they’ll launch a social media campaign against the club, highlighting the song to every media outlet, police force, football association the lot. We’ll have been threatened with docked points by tea time next Monday absolutely guaranteed.

 

I don’t personally sing the song, in fact no one around me sings as it’s like a library where I sit but I wouldn’t sing it anyway as some people find it offensive.

But.....let’s have it right, kick it out are an absolute disgrace for printing ‘Diaby was a victim of racist abuse’. What’s been sang isn’t racist abuse at all, it’s a stereotype that some find offensive, some don’t but it’s certainly not racist abuse. Abuse is monkey chants, black b*****d etc. Singing about how great someone is isn’t abuse.

And let’s have it right, Diaby knows exactly what’s been sang. It was been sang the week before in a friendly, he’s had people tweeting him about it. Even if his English isn’t good enough to understand he’ll have asked his team mates. He clearly likes the chant or he wouldn’t be dancing on the pitch to it.

I’d prefer us not to sing it but it’s really wound me up that making our fans out to be racially abusing our own player when they clearly aren’t.

 

Swearing offends me, from now on could we remove all swear words from football songs at oakwell in the future?

 

Imagine if he nods in a winner on Saturday the song will get sung. As already said its racial stereotyping wether diaby likes the song or not he is 21 year old he is spanish/Senegalese so not sure how good his English is. I wouldn't sing it and it seemed to be coming from a section of the ground where there's as many seats as brain cells.

 

My black wife thinks it's amusing. I do wonder who is actually getting offended to be honest.

 

From a bloke who takes his screen name from a Black slave...
FFS The case for the prosecution rests.

The point boils down to a simple fact - are we happy that the next newspaper headline about Diaby won't be that he's the best defender in the league - but will be about Barnsley fans being racist?

I'm not happy, whether the song is racist or not is irrelevant I do not want to be associated with racism and I'm sure 90% of Barnsley fans feel the same.

 

This thread is absolutely fcukking crazy.

 

That's alright then. Close Thread. Gravy Chip's wife likes it.

 

Does it? Or is that just you defending racism?

 

Lol

 

some white people are fuck7ng mental .

 

I just think there's racism, and then there's being a bit daft in defending people who for the most part I really don't think care. If my wife who's a proud black woman thinks it's funny, is she racist against her own race?

 

My take on this, is that, if someone was singing about the size of my **** & it was exaggerated, I personally would be happy.

It appears that our player took it in good humour.

The Mambo No5 thing needs to continue, but with some lyrics that relate to his footballing prowess & not to racial stereotypes.

 

Underpass nest the bus station the Idiot Army of 15 year old hard men were singing it loud and clear b

 

But if my black brother in law finds it offensive, and on top of previous experience with some of our knuckle draggers, is he in the wrong?

 

When I signed up I couldn’t think of a username & the film was one I liked at the time. I was hardly making a political statement.

I’ve got no problem with Kick it out asking our fans to stop singing it or to try & educate people about racial stereotypes & what some people find offensive but to say Diaby was the victim of racist abuse is nothing short of a disgrace.

What it boils down to is newspapers & organisations like Kick it out shouldn’t be click-baiting & comparing a racist stereotype to genuine racist abuse. I’ve heard several black players criticise the organisation & I can see why if this is the sort of way they behave.

I remember Man Utd fans weren’t been labelled racists when the Lukaku song was been sang yet my clubs fans are? For the same song? That’s wrong. I don’t want my clubs fans to be unfairly dubbed as racists when other clubs fans sing the same songs & aren’t.

 

It's plain wrong, and I can't for the life of me see why you are making excuses for this type of behaviour.

 

Ridiculous song that is only sang at black people, has no wit or humour to it at all. It is also just a sh@t song anyway. Too many brain dead sheep just going with it

 

Not at all. I'd go as far to say a lot the people singing it or finding it funny aren't racists either but I don't think that's point. I'm not offended by it, I don't think everyone singing it is a disgrace. I personally didn't sing it and I wouldn't, but if I did and the club asked me to stop...I'd you know....just stop.

It's great that your wife can laugh about it. I have a black friend, we often make jokes with each other about race. He knows I'm not offended, I know he's not offended but we'd never make those to each other at work or on social media or if we were for some reason sat with almost 15,000 other people who could hear us. The key is context and mutual understanding. In a public football stadium, that doesn't exist. The people singing the song don't 100% know Bambo's thoughts despite how he reacted at full time, or the thoughts of the other 15,000 people in the stadium.

We have a 21 year old lad, who's making his debut, playing brilliantly, a fantastic moment for him. For some reason, some fans want to sing a song about his penis based on a racial stereotype. This song was started during the Sheff U game. So it's not some spontaneous song of praise....I think it's crass and unintelligent, but my opinion doesn't matter. The club has told the fans they don't want it. Football's equality and inclusion organisation, who probably understand more about racial issues than most, have deemed it racist.

As someone else already suggested, they should just change 'his cocks ******* massive' to 'he's ******* massive' and problem solved. If anyone would object to that solution, I would THEN question their true intentions with the song.

 

Articulate post, I can get on board with that.