"For the second week in a row, Spain is facing up to allegations of racist abusive chanting from supporters inside its football stadiums.
Last week it was Dani Alves who took a bite out of a banana hurled towards him by a fan during
Barcelona's match at Villarreal, while Sunday Levante's Papakouli Diop opted to dance in front of his abusers during a match against Atletico Madrid, who will compete in this season's UEFA Champions League final against Real Madrid later in May.
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"I was going to take a corner and some of the Atletico fans started making monkey chants," the Senegalese told reporters.
"This monkey chants towards black players have to stop. And that's all."
A leading anti-racism campaigner is hoping Spain will respond to the publicity generated by the Alves incident, which struck a chord on social media, with a number of high-profile footballers, including his Brazilian teammate Neymar, posting pictures of themselves eating bananas along with the hashtag #weareallmonkeys." CNN
Where doe this RACIST notion of blacks being monkeys come from?
HINT: E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N....
This rhetoric was used clear back in German SW Africa (Namibia today) by Germans who tried to exterminate certain tribes during the 1st decade of the 1900's. They would use the "monkey" comparison to claim the Africans were lower of the chain of evolution.
But Scripture tells us we are all made of one blood - And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, Acts 17:26
