Soccer player does black face...

[Premeditated]

Greiz

 

[mbewane]

Different culture? Ignorance?

That's no longer an excuse, an various french social media people are on him about all of this. Like others said, the fact he's not aware this is offensive in 2017 just shows how disconnected he is, and it's even worse for him because everyone knows he's a fan of HH and the NBA he should have SOME knowledge of this. Also, blackface is not only a US thing, it's an issue in the Netherlands too (and in certain parts of Belgium) with Zwart Piet/Père Fouettard.

You guys would be surprised about how ignorant Europeans are about blackface. My wife and I went to Europe a few years back and we saw some santa clause like character wearing blackface at a mall. I was heated as fukk. I don't give a shyt if its culture, its ignorant. Griezman a p*ssy boy for this.

That must be Zwart Piet in the Netherlands or Flanders. Every single year it's a big controversy about the whole thing, getting bigger every year as Black groups are organizing themselves.

Translation: "I admit that it's awkward on my part. If I hurt some people I apologize."

I'm not on his twitter but I think this way his second tweet. First one was on some "Easy people, I'm a Harlem Globetrotters fan and of that ear, I'm just paying hommage, what's the big deal"

"Calmos les amis, je suis fan des Harlem Globetrotters et de cette belle époque... c’est un hommage",

Don't have the direct tweet but it's from this article Griezmann ose la "blackface" et fait polémique

 

[King Static X]

I'm not on his twitter but I think this way his second tweet. First one was on some "Easy people, I'm a Harlem Globetrotters fan and of that ear, I'm just paying hommage, what's the big deal"



Don't have the direct tweet but it's from this article Griezmann ose la "blackface" et fait polémique

If that's the case then...that's not good.

 

[Harry B]

This dude doesn't know, for uneducated (even educated that aren't socially interested) people from other places it's the same as dressing up like an arab Sheik, James Bond or anything else, now he knows. The black players in France are most likely just as ignorant to that history.

They even call him gringo in the french national team cause he's the cac in the black crew.

 

[ALonelyDad]

You cant excuse this, you can say he is uneducated about the history behind it but there have been too many incidents like this in the media where he should know not to do it at all. And that apology was horrible.

 

[Paradise50]

y'all questioning if Europe is racist and not acknowledging all the colonization that they've done in Africa



you're either a dumb ass stupid nikka or a fukking cracker

 

[JadeB]

 

[spencerforhire]

Didn’t they pull some shyt like this infront of Kanye and Kim years ago? I swear that’s all keep thinking about when I heared about this.

Euros

 

[gho3st]

Here the picture that Antoine Greizmann tweeted:

 

[TTT]

Thuram and Patrick Viera wouldn't let that go. In the 90s there was a French player called Karambeu who did not sing the national anthem because his ancestors were brought to Paris and displayed in a human zoo.

 

[NSSVO]

Evra would

With ZERO fukks. BEFORE a game.

 

[Hoodoo Child]

There's alot of caping in here Not surprised tho

 

[#1 pick]

There's alot of caping in here Not surprised tho

I am not either. I know what the soccer stans are thinking, he likes the NBA. But so does dudes on RealGM and Reddit and they tend to be racist af.

 

[KnowledgeDropper]

In this situation, someone black should sit him down and explain to him how he fukked up. He’ll own up to it and learn. To me it’s an ignorant mistake more than something malicious.

 

[Jean toomer]

It's 2017, that's a bullshyt ass excuse

Rinse and repeat...it amazes me that black people continue to be shocked when one of the chosen “white people” given the honorary nikka card display appalling lack of judgement.
We are naive beyond belief.
No amount of hotline blinging will save this fool.