Zenit St. Petersburg fans want all-white team

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[Gay players] are unworthy of our city
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[Black players] are shoved down Zenit's throat.
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In addition to the monkey chants, and the bananas Chris Samba had thrown at him.

However, Zenit's Italian manager was quick to speak out against the claims, calling them stupidity and nonsense.

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With Euro 2012 still fresh in the mind, and the recent spate of racist incidents in Wales' and England's games against Serbia, it looks like Eastern Europe still has a long way to go.
 
I guess you could say... racism has reached its zenit.

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Because a handful of people, be they soccer fans or players or any small group, engage in some kind of racist behaviour, does not necessarily indicate a societal problem. It would be the same as saying that I'm in a mixed race relatiinship so Canada has no problems with racism.

Its these types of generalizations from selective media coverage that help stand in the way of making progress on many issues.
 
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So just because it's a perceived minority, we should ignore it?
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Assuming that is for me since it's right below my post. No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, avoid the whole "sky is falling" hysteria that comes from isolated news items being generalized into societal behaviour. The OP brought up the incidents in question, which are obviously racist in nature there's not denying that, but concluded,

"With Euro 2012 still fresh in the mind, and the recent spate of racist incidents in Wales' and England's games against Serbia, it looks like Eastern Europe still has a long way to go. "

Why would any rational person conclude that an entire continent has a long way to go because of a handful of incidents of racist behaviour or any other kind of behaviour? I'm not an expert in these particular occurances, but aren't we basically talking about name calling? Is there some kind of widespread pattern here involving a significant percentage of the European population? Seriously, Europe has a long way to go because some people got called names?

And again, I'm not condoning this behaviour, of course no one should be subject to being called racist names, but isn't it a sign of major progress that even something as simple as calling someone a name now makes headlines?
 
I'd argue that writing an open letter to your own football/soccer club demanding the exclusion of non-white, non-straight players should make the news.

It's not name calling. In fact, name calling hasn't come up in this story yet, unless you count monkey chants. No-one has been called 'negro' or 'bent'. In this particular case it's the desire of some to exclude people from participating in a particular sport based on their skin colour and/or sexual orientation. I certainly wouldn't want to take my friends or hypothetical children to a football/soccer game where this sort of behaviour is going on. The racism at British football grounds is embarrassing enough.
 
Maybe I'm insulated living over here in the Great White North. I recall last year during an exhibition hockey game, some clown threw a banana on the ice when Wayne Simmonds was taking his turn in a Shootout. I distinctly remember the American media going spastic over the incident, referring to him as "African Canadian", a term I don't think I'd ever heard until then, and also selectively reporting his post game remarks to deliberately focus on the comments he made on racism. They also brought up that something similar happened to another black player 10 years before and the tone was that the league had issues and we can't be complacent blah blah blah. They obviously wanted to spin it into some big controversy as if 2 incidents in 10 years made a pattern.

What I recall mostly from the incident was how the guy who threw the banana was villified by his fellow hockey players and in the Canadian media and Simmonds comments:

It was unfortunate that this incident happened but I am above this sort of stuff," said Simmons in a statement Friday. "This is something that is out of my control. Moving forward, this incident is something I will no longer comment on so I can just focus on playing hockey for the Philadelphia Flyers."

And that was that. Instead of enflaming the isolated situation, he just fluffed it off and that was the end of it. The guy throwing the banana was an idiot, everyone knows he was an idiot, he got no attention and probably slinked away.
 
Most of the time those "racist" people are drunk as hell before they come to these games. Combine internal thoughts with an overdose of alcohol, and stupid things are abound.
 
Zenit has always been a prominent club in regard to racism. It's astounding how UEFA ignore the multiple protests and rallies whenever the club signs black players or those of other ethnicity.
 

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