Suarez has stated that he used a racist word, how do you expect him to clear his name?

It’s not racist. The man is black, fact, as for the second part…meh.

@Ciaro Suarez used a word that you deem racist, not him.
See post from yesterday from Kevin McGarry
Found this in response to the Suarez saga. I think it’s pretty good.
Paul McGrath is shooting his mouth off about the T Shirts. One reader wrote this in:
Hernan Morales
In referrence to the last line of this article, this man certainly DOES NOT understand the cultural differences. Being from Uruguay myself, my loving mixed-race parents refer to me as “negro” or “negrito”… and I’m not even black.
I call my wife “Negra” my daughters “Negrita”… my pals are commonly referred to as “Negro” and “Negrito” and so-on and so-forth. EVEN in a heated discussion I will use the term “Tranquilo negro” (“calm down lad”) or “Todo bien negro” (“sure mate”) and the person could be Chinese for that matter, it is synonymous to “mate”, “dude” and does not reference in any way, shape or form the colour of the person’s skin or racial physical features.
The simple fact that the term was used in SPANISH by a latin american person and “not” in English points straight to that CULTURAL difference that the F.A. overlook and therefore p*ss all over the CULTURE thing. If he used it in English (which he is shocklingly bad at), fair enough, some point of controversy could be understood, but that was not the case and it is an ugly witch hunt.
Had this guy been an Argentine or Mexican I would have been equally as vocal about such a thing. I could not give a hoot about LFC, but i do give a hoot when issues that I know a lot about are interpreted backwards and someone is being judged to this extent through the ignorance of the so-called authorities.
Evra has the right not to know about Latin american spanish particularities, but the F.A. certainly does NOT have that right. On the contrary, they have the obligation to learn about it and understand it to put it into context.
Ok, I’ve blown off some steam, hope this helps at least a few people to understand the issue from a CULTURAL point of view, straight from a fully bilingual Uruguayan.
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I’d be interested to know why I got a thumbs down for that actually. Was I discriminating against racist people or something? Hmm…. #sarcasm

I’m curious aswell!! While it’s all too easy to scroll down thru the comments & hit green thumbs up or red thumb down (I do it myself!) It’d be interesting if one of the ‘red thumb’ posters would comment here to explain!

i cant believe google allowed that, if thats not racist i dont know what is

Nice mask

Who do you support?