{"id":110213,"date":"2018-12-13T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/?p=110213"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:47:30","slug":"john-barnes-on-racist-abuse-of-raheem-sterling-and-football-against-apartheid-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/2018\/12\/13\/john-barnes-on-racist-abuse-of-raheem-sterling-and-football-against-apartheid-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"John Barnes on racist abuse of Raheem Sterling and Football Against Apartheid analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

When John Barnes said<\/a> \u201c<\/strong>I<\/em> wasn\u2019t surprised to see white people allegedly shouting racist abuse at Raheem Sterling<\/a> and I don\u2019t blame racists for holding those beliefs. We all discriminate, consciously or subconsciously. To be angry at a few people is a distraction. When it happens, the problem is not that people shout racist abuse, it is that they want to shout racist abuse\u201d,<\/em><\/p>\n

We all know it is true, that players like Raheem and managers have difficulty accepting \u201can explanation\u201d for the racism rather than elimination of racism.\u00a0 The reality of racism is exactly what John Barns alluded to, \u00a0but didn\u2019t dare to clarify that racism is a class issue.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Racism was used and continues to be used by the rich and powerful to prevent the vast majority in our society from uniting all people against all inequality.<\/p>\n

The better known examples of division of people on grounds of race are Apartheid in South Africa, Segregation Laws in USA\u00a0 and Apartheid\u00a0 in Palestine.\u00a0\u00a0 In these circumstances the powers that be in Football supported Apartheid mainly with silent approval. \u00a0\u00a0Sir Stanley Rous spent his entire tenure at President of FIFA using lies & deception to prevent Apartheid SA from being expelled from FIFA, and even when South Africa faced expulsion at the FIFA Congress in Montreal on 16 July 1976 by 78 votes to 9 the racist Sir Harold Thompson alone spoke in vain against expulsion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Football players like Eric Cantona, Frederick Kanute, Didier Drogba & others signed petitions against the brutality visited on Palestinian football, including its clubs, its players, its children who have been;\u00a0 delayed when travelling abroad to play international matches, missed their flights so that they could not play. \u00a0Many arrested like Mahmoud Sarsak at age 21 tortured, jailed without trial for 3 years, and only imminent death following 96 days on hunger strike earned his freedom, players returning from training deliberately maimed for life with bullets in the feet, stadiums destroyed, equipment & kit sent from supportive players stolen, players in Gaz prevented from travelling to West Bank to play, so they play in separate leagues, whist their WHITE oppressors are rewarded with access to the most prestigious tournaments in the world (Champions League, Europa League, European Nations League) whilst they remail expelled from the Asian Football Confederation for racism.<\/p>\n

The attack on Raheem Stirling was the final straw that made Lord Ouseley give up on the farcical \u201cKICK IT OUT<\/a>\u201d campaign that not only turned a blind eye to the most extreme manifestation of racism in world football \u2013 Apartheid but FIFA & UEFA with the support of the FA\u00a0 are actively rewarding racism.<\/p>\n

It is this hypocrisy at the highest levels of our otherwise beautiful game, that everyone knows about but cannot mention the word.\u00a0\u00a0 It may well be construed as racist to name the oppressor here.<\/p>\n

Palestinian refugees in desperation to escape the awful prison that is Gaza, and the walled-in villages that is the West Bank, are bringing their stories of the reign of terror that injures, maims, jails kills young and old for the crime of being of \u201cthe wrong race\u201d with them on boats etc as they escape from refugees camps to come to European cities.<\/p>\n

John Barnes is right to identify White Supremacist as the root cause of racism, in all its worst manifestations, and he has got to come out and say it.\u00a0 They we can all line up behind him, shoulder to shoulder alongside him, march in front of him and take the knocks aimed at him.\u00a0 \u00a0He has the stage now, that Lord Ousley has gone.\u00a0 John Barnes is the first footballer to point out \u00a0that its not the odd\u00a0 ignorant ass on the terraces that is the big problem, but the white supremacists, as the villain that needs to share the spoils of imperialist slavery, \u00a0lest we all fall victim to race hate.<\/p>\n

Football Against Apartheid<\/p>\n

12 December 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When John Barnes said \u201cI wasn\u2019t surprised to see white people allegedly shouting racist abuse at Raheem Sterling and I don\u2019t blame racists for holding those beliefs. We all discriminate, consciously or subconsciously. To be angry at a few people is a distraction. When it happens, the problem is not that people shout racist abuse, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-110213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-sport","tag-english"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"pt","enabled_languages":["gb","es","fr","pt","ru","no","ar"],"languages":{"gb":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"no":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ar":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110321,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110213\/revisions\/110321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}