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Racist Chanting and Monkey Mimicry
Football Fans True To Their Nature

By Olusola O. Muhammad
Tuesday, 7 December, 2004

Not even the kicking of a football in Spain, escapes racism, as football managers and supporters alike manifest a deeply rooted psyche of hatred towards black people by making racist remarks or behaving in an all too common ‘monkey-aping-fashion’.

In October during a training session of Spain’s football team, the manager Luis Aragones was “recorded on Spanish television using racist language” in reference to Thierry Henry the French Striker whilst trying to motivate his striker, Jose Antonio Reyes, saying, “…tell that black shit that you are better than him. Tell him from me. You’re the best”.

Then in November during England’s Under-21 football match against Spain, Carlton Cole, Darren Bent and Glen Johnson were subjected to racial abuse from fans including monkey chants. Next in line for Spain’s fans apish behaviour and monkey chanting were the senior England footballers, Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright.

Following closely behind and ever-true to the English nature and psyche, Jason Perryman, 22, from Lawson Street in Chorley, during a football match between Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham subjected Dwight Yorke to “monkey chants and …gesturing, imitating a monkey using his arms moving up and down in that fashion to his armpits and making ‘ooh ooh ooh’ monkey noises”.

Jason Perryman has since admitted in court to the offence of ‘racially aggravated public disorder’.

Clearly, there were too many Spanish fans 'acting the fool' to be confronted for the Under-21 and Senior football teams, but Dwight Yorke manifestly upset, confronted Jason Perryman about his behaviour.

What is it about such ‘apish’ behavior that is manifested by Europeans, and trying to associate it with people of African descent? Is it ‘atypical’ behaviour reminiscent of the nature of European people reflecting the age-old-adage – ‘I’ll be a monkey’s uncle’?

Could it be that Europeans in Spain and England were acting according to their ancestral roots given their acceptance that they originated from monkeys?

Black football players and ‘black’ people in general need to wake up and realize that the characteristic behaviour of Europeans mimicking the behaviour of monkeys has nothing to do with black skin, but is a manifestation of a deeply rooted desire, to act out their ‘true nature’ and act like their monkey ancestors from where 'Charles Darwin' says they originate.

On the other hand such behaviour should serve as a wake-up call to black people in general, that Europe and this Island-nation is not as multicultural as one would like to believe or as politicians and ‘politically correct’ persons would have us believe it to be.

 
 

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