What’s going off at PSG game

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  1. Marc

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    Tweets like that do far more harm than good IMO. All it does is give racists and racist apologists a green light to carry on. It also offers no incentive for people who need better educating. ‘Well John Barnes is black and he said’...

    What he’s saying is ********. I would use any other thing to describe the only black person in a room. Any other thing than ‘the black person in the corner’. I’m just picturing me doing that in a meeting at work. Sacked on the spot.
     
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    Agree.

    Maybe call him by his name? It's Demba Ba for Christ sake, not some bloke down the local who nobody knows.
     
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    Don't footballers all have numbers on their shirts?
     
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    Think youll find its Eric Djemba Djemba Ba, according to people on here. :D
     
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    Yeah but he was on the bench and in training gear with a big coat on, so you couldn’t see any shirt number. Either way, identifying someone as ‘the black man’ is at best stupid, at worst racist. In the current climate, for a Champions League official to do that is indefensible.
     
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    To be honest, if he was the only black player on the bench, and as an official that's presumably seen the team sheet, you probably should know who Demba Ba is!
     
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    He didn't say it to Ba, he said it about Pierre Webo one of the coaches. Ba heard it and challenged the assistant.
     
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    Ah right I see.

    Point taken.
     
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