[This Week in Racism]
Nothing Brings Out the Racism in Sports Fans Like… Well, Anything
It’s an embarrassment of riches in our weekly roundup of the world’s most preventable disease!
Death and taxes used to be the only two certainties in life. But no matter how much progress it feels like we’re making sometimes, the sad fact is you can probably slide racism into that list. Are we in a moment of uprising that feels like it has the potential to create real, systemic change? Yes. Do people and organizations still show their ass on a daily basis? Oh, most definitely. And to keep tabs on all that ass-showing, we created a weekly racism surveillance machine.
🗑 For the last time, British fans: You don’t spell ‘soccer’ with three Ks
In Sunday’s European Championship soccer final, Italy rallied to beat host country England in a tie-breaking shootout, helped in part by England missing three of its five penalty kicks. Already a recipe for social-media disaster, right? Absolutely. But it gets worse: All three England players who missed their kicks were Black. Now, we’re not sure if you know this about European footie fans, but they have a bit of a reputation for some truly unparalleled racial taunts. If it’s…
