Él empezó a discutir conmigo en español y recuerdo que más allá de que me llamósudamericano no pude entender más de lo que decía… Evra vino en un córner a preguntarme por qué le había golpeado, algo totalmente hipócrita cuando un defensa se pasa todo el partido golpeando", según recoge The Guardian.
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““He started shouting at me in spanish and I remember that apart from him calling me ‘sudamericano’ I couldn’t really understand anything else he said…Evra came up to me during a corner to ask me why I’d hit him, a totally hypocritical question when a defender like him spends the whole match leaving knocks on his opponent”, according to the Guardian.”"
“No usé negro en el sentido que tiene en inglés… Es evidente que no pretendía ser gentil y amable con Evra al decirle eso, pero no fue un ataque racista”, dijo Suárez. “Mi mujer a veces me llama negro y mi abuela llamaba siempre negrito a mi abuelo”.
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“I didn’t use ‘negro’ in the sense it has in english…It’s obvious I wasn’t trying to be sweet and nice with Evra when I said that to him, but it wasn’t a racist attack,” Suárez said. “My wife sometimes calls me negro and my granny always called my grandpa negrito.”
JakeyBoy:
Also according to you it’s ridiculous for people to think Suarez is a racist because he used a term that specifically refers to someone’s race in an argument
Negro simply isn’t used the same in spanish as it is in English. It’s used with complete naturality, especially in south America. It’s totally normal, as Suárez tells, to call someone who is tan skinned negro or negrito. Like I said, Evra, a foreigner, randomly saying ‘sudamericano’, which just means ‘south american’, which he’s clearly saying with a negative connotation, because, why the fuck else would you say sudamericano (surely if Evra had more control of the spanish language he would’ve used another word, but I digress), is frankly worse sounding than saying negrito. Negrito just sounds like you’re trying to be obnoxious and provocative, it doesn’t sound remotely racist. A foreigner randomly saying sudamericano, on the other hand, strikes me as more likely to be revealing of racist/xenophobic attitudes, and tbh, if on a random street corner in spain you went up to a black person and said ey, negrito, it’s highly unlikely any offence would be taken, whereas if you went up to a random south american and said ey, sudamericano, it sounds a lot worse, frankly.
Hope that’s enough context for you. You could’ve just taken my word for the fact that the whole Suárez racism thing is a massive joke that a whole lot of you in England have allowed yourselves to be taken in on, and while it probably doesn’t apply to you, subvert racism/xenophobia/classism towards people like Suárez certainly played a part in such a stupid misconception going over so easily