Britain's media is ‘fuelling racism’

Men's Football / 9 December 2018

Manchester City's Raheem Sterling blames the media for continuously painting black players in a negative light

England and Man City's Raheem Sterling (left) walks onto the pitch at Wembley in November

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RACIST abuse of black footballers is the fault of pervasive media racism, Raheem Sterling warned today as he called out disgusting insults aimed at himself.

Chelsea’s victory over Manchester City on yesterday was overshadowed by footage emerging of a middle-aged white man calling Sterling a “f****** black c***.”

The club reacted quickly to open up an investigation into the abuse directed at the City player.

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Good morning I just want to say , I am not normally the person to talk a lot but when I think I need my point to heard I will speak up. Regarding what was said at the Chelsea game as you can see by my reaction I just had to laugh because I don’t expect no better. For example you have two young players starting out there careers both play for the same team, both have done the right thing. Which is buy a new house for there mothers who have put in a lot of time and love into helping them get where they are, but look how the news papers get there message across for the young black player and then for the young white payer. I think this in unacceptable both innocent have not done a thing wrong but just by the way it has been worded. This young black kid is looked at in a bad light. Which helps fuel racism an aggressive behaviour, so for all the news papers that don’t understand why people are racist in this day and age all i have to say is have a second thought about fair publicity an give all players an equal chance.

A post shared by Raheem Sterling x (@sterling7) on Dec 9, 2018 at 1:54am PST

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