Racism in the USA

[15 Rounds again]

How rampant is it? It creeps into boxing discussions and seems to polarize American fans.
Are Americans aware that racism is not even a fraction of the problem.in UK as it is in the states as it pertains to sport. It is dealt with very seriously. It's not cool.
For example, in January two football supporters were banned from attending games for 5 years for making racist comments.
American police are extremely bad for profiling young black men - I get that, so I understand why Americans may think the rest of the world is like that also.
Your cops are utterly medieval, and then you have a president who is pretty backward in his views, moronic too. (Surely he doesnt get many black.votes?).
All this to say- that when engaging Americans in boxing talk, I am often surprised how accusations of racism come up out of the blue.
I saw two men fighting on Saturday night - I think many Americans saw a black man and a white man.
Let's eliminate that attitude in boxing, on both sides of the pond.

[Madison Boxing]

How rampant is it? It creeps into boxing discussions and seems to polarize American fans.
Are Americans aware that racism is not even a fraction of the problem.in UK as it is in the states as it pertains to sport. It is dealt with very seriously. It's not cool.
For example, in January two football supporters were banned from attending games for 5 years for making racist comments.
American police are extremely bad for profiling young black men - I get that, so I understand why Americans may think the rest of the world is like that also.
Your cops are utterly medieval, and then you have a president who is pretty backward in his views, moronic too. (Surely he doesnt get many black.votes?).
All this to say- that when engaging Americans in boxing talk, I am often surprised how accusations of racism come up out of the blue.
I saw two men fighting on Saturday night - I think many Americans saw a black man and a white man.
Let's eliminate that attitude in boxing, on both sides of the pond.

Me too, I didn't even realise wilder was black until I saw the comments after the fight

[IceTrayDaGang]

i saw a white guy fighting a black guy... but that doesnt mean that i am racist. just keeping it 100.

[Robi13]

How rampant is it? It creeps into boxing discussions and seems to polarize American fans.
Are Americans aware that racism is not even a fraction of the problem.in UK as it is in the states as it pertains to sport. It is dealt with very seriously. It's not cool.
For example, in January two football supporters were banned from attending games for 5 years for making racist comments.
American police are extremely bad for profiling young black men - I get that, so I understand why Americans may think the rest of the world is like that also.
Your cops are utterly medieval, and then you have a president who is pretty backward in his views, moronic too. (Surely he doesnt get many black.votes?).
All this to say- that when engaging Americans in boxing talk, I am often surprised how accusations of racism come up out of the blue.
I saw two men fighting on Saturday night - I think many Americans saw a black man and a white man.
Let's eliminate that attitude in boxing, on both sides of the pond.

What about when Hearn says “Garcia vs Vargas will be an all out Mexican war”???

Why can’t it just be an all out war?

[Robi13]

i saw a white guy fighting a black guy... but that doesnt mean that i am racist. just keeping it 100.

Agree 1hunid

[15 Rounds again]

What about when Hearn says “Garcia vs Vargas will be an all out Mexican war”???

Why can’t it just be an all out war?

That is not racism.
That's you looking for it to be racism.

[HitmanTommy]

Racism in America is EXTREMELY bad. The vast majority of the time, it's a white person initiating racist behavior while black folk are just trying to go about their business.

Try opening up a history book for once..... You will see that the KKK had a huge presence in America and they would lynch and hang black folks for the fun of it.

in the 60's, white policeman would spray waterhoses and unleash dogs on blacks that would only be peacefully protesting.

A lot of racism by whites.....

[GGG Gloveking]

I know right?! Like that time the white American fighter was throwing chicken bones at Wilder.

Oh wait, that happened on your side of the pond

[15 Rounds again]

i saw a white guy fighting a black guy... but that doesnt mean that i am racist. just keeping it 100.

100% agree with this.
Not being racist doesn't mean not acknowledging that two people are ethnically different, that's just seeing a fact.
Racism is discriminating against one or the other because of different ethnicity / skin colour etc.

[15 Rounds again]

Me too, I didn't even realise wilder was black until I saw the comments after the fight

You know what I meant.