Originally posted by FrankieBruno
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Your points made me recall the Klitschko documentary when they talk about coming to America and loving it and how their father still insisted - even after hearing from his children - that all Americans were scum and that everything presented to his children was an elaborate hoax. He had been brainwashed by a life in the Soviet system to hate and distrust anyone who was different than him.
My Grandparents grew up in Hungary when it was under Russian control and to this day my grandmother refers to blacks as "colored people". She isn't racist, she just doesn't know any better. She came from a place where racism and classism were the status quo and the government pitted social groups against each other in class warfare.
I've tried to break her of the habit but she doesn't even realize she does it. The way you speak becomes ingrained in you after so many years. I expect Kovalev will stop using the word as he is young enough to understand and has the financial incentive to be extra sensitive - however I don't think anything he says is specifically racist when taken into context.
He very well may be a bitter racist - these comments just don't happen to be proof of that imo.
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