What’s more disappointing is the nonchalant attitude of some, passing off these behavior as “fan reaction” doing “just what they can to gain advantage.”

I say it’s quite the opposite: taking the arena of sports to let out some deep-rooted racist undercurrents and tendencies.

I’ve been to Spain, and it was a warm and welcoming country. However, it seems very apparent that there is a covert display of racism that is tolerated enough to be manifested in these unacceptable behaviors, and a very disheartening segment of the population here in America willing to still close their eyes and walk the other way.

In 1935, dissatisfied with the reporting of news by the White press concerning the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia, Rogers served as war correspondent in Ethiopia for the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper. After returning to the United States in 1936 he published a highly popular illustrated pamphlet entitled The Real Facts About Ethiopia. In The Real Facts About Ethiopia Rogers wrote that the Ethiopian woman “goes with her husband to war, and often becomes his avenger, should he fall. Usually she is fiercer in battle than the man. Europeans sometimes kill themselves, rather than fall into the hands of the African woman.”

Check out. http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/rogers.html for more info on this brilliant author.

Sex and Race was published in three volumes from 1941 to 1944. The first volume focuses on antiquity and is arguably the most fundamental of the three. As to ancient Asia, for example, Rogers devoted several pages of Sex and Race to the Black presence in early Japan. In the process he cites the studies of a number of accomplished scholars and anthropologists, raising the question “were the first Japanese Negroes?”

Other chapters are devoted to “The Negro in Ancient Greece,” “Negroes in Ancient Rome and Carthage” and “Were the Jews Originally Negroes?” The appendices of Sex and Race are equally fascinating, focusing on “Black Gods and Messiahs” and the “History of the Black Madonnas.” In Volume Two of Sex and Race Rogers examines “racism and race-mixing in the New World,” while Volume Three of Sex and Race seeks to define the concept of race itself. Like most of his works, all three volumes of Sex and Race are lavishly illustrated.

“Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.” –Joel Augustus Rogers

So sick my god.

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However, it is very amusing [in a sad, twisted way of course] to witness people immensely involved in hating themselves!

I’m interested too, to see what the repercussions will be, if any.

I saw this on BBC World news and just shook my head. I was not surprised since it has been previously reported of the racist comments by not only Spanish sports fans, but by coaches and managers also. I can only hope that they get stripped of the Spanish Grand Prix and the European Grand Prix to send a message that such behaviour will not be tolerated by the Formula One officials.

I won’t hold my breath waiting though!