Cheesy said:GStar said:Sounds like theres more chance the guy in question was stupidly reffering to how Caicedo is built as opposed to his skin colour?
Should have gone dressed up as a brick shithouse then.
PabZab said:Football and racism go hand in hand and should be treated with extra sensitivity because of this.[/quote
How do figure that???
Mindless racism has always been and will always be down to a very small twatty minority in every environment.
Football is no different than anywhere or anything else.
PabZab said:Football and racism go hand in hand and should be treated with extra sensitivity because of this.
berger1985 said:Daniel Sturridge said:It sounds to me like it was a bit of fun to me and wasn't a racist gesture although I can see why a few people might think it was.
And what if it was a black guy in the gorilla costume would it still be racist?
I agree, but its all relative to what individual people think.
Ticket For Schalke said:so when people wear an arrab headdress thats not a racist,lets delete ths post,as the lad is far from being one!!!
Bigga said:I can't believe how stupid you two sound! Clearly, you are both caucasian or you wouldn't be coming out with such twaddle! A Black man knows the connatations of a suit like that, it's most likely he'd have suffered abuse or heard of the abuse dealt to people of his Race.
What Black person would see that as 'fun'? It's incredibly short sighted not to begin to understand the anger felt.
If the fool wanted to show how big Big Phil is, 'Hulk' suits are readily available. This was entirely a racial dig about Felipe's looks and build.
billsbigbanana said:Thaksins Love Child said:Was anyone else in that tent outside the Fernhurst pub yesterday when it kicked off a bit?
A City fan thought it would be funny to come in a Gorilla suit, with a T-Shirt on with Caicedo on the back the idiot.
Few black City fans noticed it and tried knocking the shit out of him.
Police came in horses etc, not sure what happened after that though.
paranoid bastards
GStar said:Intresting view, what if the guy in the costume was completely unaware of how some people would connect the two? Perhaps he'd been brought up shielded from "big bad world".
A stupid comparison perhaps, but its quite a popular connotation in some parts of America to refer to white people as "crackers" does that mean by black friends should refrain from eating such food in my presence as i may have been subject to abuse?
Bigga said:GStar said:Intresting view, what if the guy in the costume was completely unaware of how some people would connect the two? Perhaps he'd been brought up shielded from "big bad world".
A stupid comparison perhaps, but its quite a popular connotation in some parts of America to refer to white people as "crackers" does that mean by black friends should refrain from eating such food in my presence as i may have been subject to abuse?
Since a 'cracker' is a food item that I can find to have no humanoid relation to Caucasians, I find it difficult to make immitations of a 'cracker' based on skin colour and noises.
Now, if Black people had been comparing Polar bears to Caucasians for centuries, I'd have something to say...
de niro said:how sad that this thread even exsists.
GStar said:Bigga said:I can't believe how stupid you two sound! Clearly, you are both caucasian or you wouldn't be coming out with such twaddle! A Black man knows the connatations of a suit like that, it's most likely he'd have suffered abuse or heard of the abuse dealt to people of his Race.
What Black person would see that as 'fun'? It's incredibly short sighted not to begin to understand the anger felt.
If the fool wanted to show how big Big Phil is, 'Hulk' suits are readily available. This was entirely a racial dig about Felipe's looks and build.
Intresting view, what if the guy in the costume was completely unaware of how some people would connect the two? Perhaps he'd been brought up shielded from "big bad world".
A stupid comparison perhaps, but its quite a popular connotation in some parts of America to refer to white people as "crackers" does that mean by black friends should refrain from eating such food in my presence as i may have been subject to abuse?
Think I was stood right by you then. The police were far too aggressive and we were just stood between the tent and the food wagon eating and nearly got crushed.Thaksins Love Child said:Yeah what I was referring to was at the same time as kicking the ball about. Coppers got hold of it and threw it over the wall hence "we want our ball back". Few mins after that was when the gorilla man got a few slaps and the police intervened. I was told to f*ck off, it appears standing out of the way and looking for your mate is not allowed not either.rick1894citizen said:the police were marching in on horses and it was too do with the rowdiness, the gorilla thing was sorted out half hour previous. the police are the making of alot of the trouble as there was no need for horses when it was just a few lads booting a ball and singing. the gorilla suit was an idiotic thing to do and reckon alot of people will have thought it was racist.
Yeah you probably were. Way too agressive, I was actually trying to get out of the way. A backheel off a horse wasn't what I was after!Prestwich_Blue said:Think I was stood right by you then. The police were far too aggressive and we were just stood between the tent and the food wagon eating and nearly got crushed.Thaksins Love Child said:Yeah what I was referring to was at the same time as kicking the ball about. Coppers got hold of it and threw it over the wall hence "we want our ball back". Few mins after that was when the gorilla man got a few slaps and the police intervened. I was told to f*ck off, it appears standing out of the way and looking for your mate is not allowed not either.
Thaksins Love Child said:Yeah surpisingly he ended up on his own, who would want to backup a tosser like that!
Also, was that Micky Francis in the Viking hat? Saw a few people posing for pics with him. Didn't think he did City games anymore?? Only from reading his book I mean.
Biggsy1 said:I saw and spoke to the guy, he was implying that Caciedo is a big fucker, but i did point out it would be looked at as racist and that it wasn't the best idea he'd ever had!