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Atletico Madrid star Griezmann causes controversy over black-face costume
The France national team star has since apologized, but is facing significant backlash
- by Roger Gonzalez
- @rgonzalezcbs
- 2h ago • 1 min read
France and Atletico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann had an '80s-themed party to attend this weekend, and he is now under a lot of fire for his choice of a costume. The huge basketball fan dressed up kind of like a Harlem Globetrotter and decided to paint his skin in the process. Take a look:
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https://twitter.com/English_AS/status/942512459738382338
AS English✔@English_AS
Antoine Griezmann 'blackface' costume leads to allegations of racism.https://en.as.com/en/2017/12/17/football/1513546372_594856.html …
4:50 PM - Dec 17, 2017
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As you could imagine, there was plenty of backlash for the costume.
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https://twitter.com/UNILADFooty/status/942534768025104386
UNILAD Football✔@UNILADFooty
Surely someone could have advised Antoine Griezmann that this may have been a silly idea...
6:19 PM - Dec 17, 2017
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https://twitter.com/LukeAFoley/status/942502621704679424
Luke Foley
@LukeAFoleyIf you're asking how is that racist re: Antoine Griezmann then you're part of the problem. Casual racism is still prevalent in society and that pic of Griezmann is evidence of that. Whether it's intentional or not is irrelevant.
4:11 PM - Dec 17, 2017
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https://twitter.com/HJBosch21/status/942494566396989440
H. José Bosch
@HJBosch21If you’re white, and you wear a Harlem Globetrotters uniform without blackface, I promise you everyone is going to understand you are supposed to be a Harlem Globetrotter.
3:39 PM - Dec 17, 2017
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And the player quickly took to Twitter to apologize, after telling people to calm down.
https://twitter.com/AntoGriezmann/status/942509267436888070
Antoine Griezmann✔@AntoGriezmann
Je reconnais que c’est maladroit de ma part. Si j’ai blessé certaines personnes je m’en excuse.
4:38 PM - Dec 17, 2017
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"I agree that it [was wrong of] me. If I hurt anybody, forgive me," he wrote.
s are now becoming daily.....
I honestly don't give a fukk...and we laughed when Shawn n Marlon dressed up in "white face" for the movie white chicks but now we crying wolf
we doing a disservice to whatever cause we fighting for...we wanna have "white , Asian, gay, whatever jokes" but scream racist the moment one of these groups make a "black" joke ...you nikkas is clowns worrying bout this bullshyt while black unemployed is still over 10%...
in the long run, what would we get out of that? It's a distraction that we shouldn't spend one second of our time discussing...
worst yet, we give other races "passes" to use that word...don't try to lecture me...

