A. Silva (left) poses with a child at the Team Nogueira gym. Photo: Reproduction/Twitter
The wave of demonstrations against racism around the world, motivated by the episodes involving the right-back of the Brazilian team and Barcelona Daniel Alves and also by the prejudiced statements of the owner of the NBA team Los Angeles Clippers, also reached MMA. Through your official profile on Twitter, the former middleweight champion Anderson Silva protested against discrimination.
“Racism, prejudice and discrimination in general: It’s collective stupidity without explanation”, published the Spider, along with an image of him next to a child. Coincidentally, this month, Anderson was on the cover of “Trip” magazine, with the headline “It’s f*ck to be black in Brazil”, dealing with racial prejudice in the country.
Last weekend, during a match against Villarreal in the Spanish Championship, right-back Daniel Alves ate a banana thrown onto the pitch by a fan who wanted to racially insult him. Furthermore, in the USA, players and coaching staff of the Los Angeles Clippers, artists and even President Barack Obama repudiated the words of the NBA club president Donald Sterling, in an audio released by the website “TMZ”. In the recording, Sterling appears censoring his girlfriend for appearing publicly alongside black people and taking them to the team's games, after photos of her alongside former basketball star Magic Johnson were broadcast.
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