As far as I'm aware Akinfenwa gives as good as he gets and seemed a decent bloke until today. I think he's jumping on the race bandwagon myself. That's what p1sses me off a bloke famed for his banter suddenly goes all sensitive.
The old racist bandwagon eh?? Just like them womens libbers on their equality bandwagon. These days you get chucked in jail for saying you're English!!
If he has previously likened himself to a water buffalo and someone has potentially seen this and called him a fat one, im not sure that shows any racist intent. It is hard to know without the full facts. Seems a bizarre coincidence though.
Maybe he shouldn't have to explain himself. There's a difference between racism and banter and maybe part of addressing racism is listening when a black person says it's offensive rather than straight away saying oh no it isnt.
Would you call a male a fat cow? If you said it to me, depending on circumstances I might well find it misogynistic.
It's what you call a big boned woman you're familiar with. It isn't what you call a big boned woman you're not familiar with
If someone called you a fat cow you wouldn't be amoosed would you. In fact you'd have some serious beef with them. I'm sorry. One pun was bad enough but two was really milking it
I’m not a big fan of this idea of unconscious racism, micro-aggressions, white privilege et al, but if you can’t see the racism in calling a black player a “water buffalo” I think you need to have a word.
Nothing in the article that says it’s a white person who called him it. Genuine question for people if it was a Black person who called him it is it still rascist?
One thing that strikes me about akinfenwa is that h is absolutely huge obviously and it's all/mainly muscle. How the hell is he only 16 stone according to all websites I can find?