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So I know that soccer isn't really popular on this forum but...this is making the rounds and a story is a story.
Recent topic on this issue : how we feel about racist soccer fans making balotelli cry?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ncentrate-playing-instead-reacting-abuse.html
His twitter (He's coppin' pleas) : https://twitter.com/carltonpalmer3
Dude was apparently shyt when he played :
How does The Coli feel? American sports culture is full of racism but there isn't a movement of fans racially taunting players like there is in Europe.
I dislike this idea that the sports world is somehow off-limits to the standards of society at large. The whole Incognito debacle also speaks to this.
I think that this lame needs to spend less time victim-blaming and more time critiquing racist competitors/fans.
Recent topic on this issue : how we feel about racist soccer fans making balotelli cry?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ncentrate-playing-instead-reacting-abuse.html
'Grow up and accept it!' Palmer believes racism victims should concentrate on playing instead of reacting to the abuse
Carlton Palmer believes that footballers who suffer racial abuse whilst playing should just "grow up and accept" the barbs.
The former England international said he was the subject of discriminatory taunts in his professional career, but that he just "laughed it off."
The ex-Sheffield Wednesday defender believes opponents use it merely as a technique to distract an opposing player from playing their normal game.
Palmer told talkSPORT: 'If you want to intimidate me about my colour, which has happened loads of times, then I’ll just laugh it off. If I’m stupid enough to get involved with you because you’re calling me a black something or other, I’ll just laugh it off.
'I played at West Ham and they were chucking bananas on the pitch, I ate the bananas. I love them! It doesn’t worry me. I’m not interested in that. I’m just interested in winning the football game.
'If someone is on a football pitch or in a boxing ring or whatever, you’re in there to win. It is part and parcel of it [to try to put someone off]. And you have to grow up and accept that. And anybody who thinks different is lying. It’s been going on for years.
'When you say it’s not right, if I can intimidate you by saying something that puts you off your game, why isn’t that right?
'That’s not racism. Not for me, it’s not. It depends on the context. Whenever it’s happened to me, and I’m not mentioning any names, I never thought that person was a racist. If they can get me sent off because I react, that’s different. On the pitch, the laws are different.
'Some people for me, and some players, some black players, have used this as an excuse. And then the ones that have actually been racially abused, those incidents are not being dealt with.'
On FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s claim that on-pitch racism can be settled with a handshake at the end of the game, Palmer added:
'I agree with Blatter 100%. At the end of the day it’s an easy excuse for colour. Just be the best you can be. And that’s what I’ve done – 750 league games, 18 England caps. You can call me black – it doesn’t matter to me.'
His twitter (He's coppin' pleas) : https://twitter.com/carltonpalmer3
Dude was apparently shyt when he played :
How does The Coli feel? American sports culture is full of racism but there isn't a movement of fans racially taunting players like there is in Europe.
I dislike this idea that the sports world is somehow off-limits to the standards of society at large. The whole Incognito debacle also speaks to this.
I think that this lame needs to spend less time victim-blaming and more time critiquing racist competitors/fans.
but I can't respect this 
Sad shyt.
I'm surprised no one throw a banana, which is an opposite of a tinga.
