Why are their no black people in Argentina then since they had slaves? You did not pause to ask yourself that question?
Anyway not for this thread
Simply because African slaves weren’t brought to this part of South America as much as other places and slavery Has been abolished early, most of them died in wars. Argentina, chile, Paraguay , peru, Bolivia do not have a particulsr amount of African ancestry. The Europeans that came here in the first place decided it was better to exterminate the natives, although most descendants have native blood, in less amount than those of Bolivia or Peru, or Mexico who doesn’t have black people among their population. That story you read is just political agenda and I won’t get into that.
It wasn’t Argentina the country that colonialized. Divided and exploited Africa and all Africans. Or the one that made human zoos in the 1900s or African expositions in 1 9 9 4. That’s France, among other countries. I’m just saying this because you’re talking a load of no sense about a whole country you probably don’t know.
It’s a very tough things to ask you to understand the some people see the world. There are more than one way being racist in my opinion. You can’t judge the same Way people who is racist through hate and people that doesn’t have hatred but are too ignorant in the matter and don’t understand the weight of words and how they can hurt other people. As many posters have said here, Argentina has never went through racism problems internally, as it has happened in other places, and that added to the culture of football where chants tend to be offensive about anything and with no limits, take us to these situations. Besides they use terms that other people would find offensive between them, just like Cavani used the word negrito as an affective form.
It’s easy to stand in your position and judge people ignoring their culture. All these people need is education because there’s no hatred inside these things. These are just stupid things they do without understanding how bad it can be. That’s how you can build a better society. Of course there will be real racial hatred as it happens all over the world sadly. But as people who live here in Argentina has posted, the vast majority of people just need education and have no hatred at all. I’m sure Enzo Fernandez is not a bad person, he’s basically an ignorant kid who thought it was nice to sing a football chant and doesn’t understand how bad this can be. Of course it’s a racism case and he must be banned for a time, fined, but I’m sure that with education this will be erradicated since it’s not a hated based problem.
Edit (since I can’t post more messages): Argentina is a country that makes football chants all the time and they generally sing about things from the past, or use old chants aswell against England, Brazil, who are considered their rivals. The chants have sports related lyrics most of the time but sometimes they can be stupid as it happened with France. That’s why they keep singing the song. In fact in every single game Argentina fans sing against England and Brazil. It’s the way people are, when it comes to football.
I hope you don’t get me wrong, this is terrible, but some people are acting as if Argentina and all of Argentinians are the devil. I’m glad people who lived here said many concepts i said before.
Edit: wanted to clearify the slavery part, which wasn’t my main objective regarding to my post.
