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In my opinion racism will never go away. Unfortunately there'll always be a minority at it whatever television presenters or politicians do or how much publicity they give it. However, massive steps have been taken since bananas were being chucked at black players 30 years ago and monkey chants were commonplace on the terraces.
It's easy to lose sight of the fact that people have gradually become more educated and less ignorant. That surely has to be a good thing in my eyes, it's much needed progress. Bloody hell, apartheid ended in the 90s and how bad was that?
The problem for me is that some folk are daft enough to think that it will be totally eradicated by using football as an example of zero tolerance. Have a word with yourselves. In all aspects of life you'll find that there's always a minority of idiots whether its sport, politics, religious extremists or whatever. That will never change. You simply cant right every wrong in the world. Accept that bad things will always happen but to try and put some perspective on it, it's worth pointing out that the racism we witnessed in Bulgaria wasn't the 'worst it's ever been' as some have implied, that's utter garbage.
It was obviously bad and unacceptable but nowhere near what we've witnessed in the past. I'm sure that the majority of Bulgarians were embarrassed by the actions of a certain group of young individuals.
Why should we start abandoning games on the strength of a few uneducated morons? To me that isn't progress, its punishment. Punishment is not the answer, educating people is the way forward surely otherwise the majority suffer. Racism is inherited in most cases and is a simple case of ignorance and as I say we've come a long way in regard of changing that in the last 30 years.
Originally Posted by Romared
