In the encounter between Inter Miami and D.C. United on Sunday, it is alleged that DCU striker Taxi Fountas used the N-word to refer to Inter Miami defender Damian Lowe. Major League Soccer has said that it will investigate the allegation.
An Major League Soccer official told ESPN that the league “has zero tolerance for abusive and disrespectful behavior and we take these complaints very seriously.” “We will look into this situation as soon as possible. After the inquiry is finished, more details will be given.”
Additionally, a D.C. United representative released the following statement: “The claims against a player during the match versus Inter Miami CF are known to D.C. United. To examine the event, the club will collaborate closely with Major League Soccer and Inter Miami.”
The alleged assault allegedly took place during a 3-2 Miami win, during the 59th minute. It came after an altercation between Lowe and Fountas. Aime Mabika, a Miami defender, then responded furiously against Fountas. Following the incident, referee Ismail Elfath warned both Fountas and Lowe and then spoke with the managers of the two sides, Inter Miami’s Phil Neville and D.C. United’s Wayne Rooney.
Elfath responded to a post-game query from a pool reporter by claiming that neither he nor any other official heard a racist epithet being spoken. Play resumed after a wait of several minutes, but Fountas was replaced in the 66th.
Rooney remarked, “There was a complaint, and I have no doubt that it will be looked at. I don’t have much else to say.”
Neville was left to explain the nature of the conflict.
DeAndre Yedlin, a defender for Miami, subsequently said during a post-game videoconference that the players told Neville they wouldn’t play any further unless something was done about Fountas. Rooney quickly decided to replace Fountas.
Unfortunately, there was some racism in response to the first teaser for Halle Bailey’s portrayal of Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
And right now, Trevor Noah is warning those who are incensed. The presenter of The Daily Show, who was visibly distraught, addressed the audience members who were upset by a Black Little Mermaid, asking, “Really, people—we’re doing this again?”
Noah responded to those who said Bailey didn’t resemble Disney’s original Ariel, saying, “Nothing like? They both have red [hair], and they both have tails. “Once again, some online racists are pissed off that a fictitious character is being performed by a Black person,” he concluded. This is absurd. And to be completely honest, I don’t get the fuss. Do you folks understand that Nemo was also Black? Yeah! The focus of the entire film was a fish looking for his father.
Despite his humor, Noah urged the critics to “stop being stupid” and emphasized that the world of The Little Mermaid is, in fact, “imaginary.”
He added, “I hope this scandal doesn’t overshadow the rest of the movie. The Little Mermaid is a beautiful story about a young woman changing her core identity to please a man. Let’s not forget about that, people.”
Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid was directed by Rob Marshall and stars Daveed Diggs, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Jonah Hauer-King, Javier Bardem, and Melissa McCarthy. It’s slated to open on May 26, 2023.
Rachel Richardson, a Duke volleyball player, provided further information regarding what transpired during the Blue Devils’ match against BYU on Friday, when she was the target of threats and racial epithets from spectators in the student section.
The event was further discussed by Richardson, a sophomore outside hitter from Ellicott City, Maryland, who is 19 years old.
Richardson said that as the match’s second set came to a close, she was about to serve when she heard the slur for the first time. In the fourth set, when the teams exchanged sides, Duke was close to the student section and heard the slur once more.
Richardson reported, “I heard a really powerful, terrible racial insult.” “I therefore served the ball and completed the play. When I returned to serve the following time, I heard it quite clearly once more, but the game was over at that point.”
The Duke volleyball coaches then went to the authorities to inform them of the predicament. Richardson said that at the time, there was no consideration given to ending the match, but nothing was done.
Richardson said that she was contacted by the BYU women’s volleyball team and that she spoke out to raise awareness.
The issue was discussed with Richardson and Duke volleyball coach Jolene Nagel, according to BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe, who also addressed the audience prior to the Cougars’ game on Saturday. Holmoe said that the university’s efforts to prevent supporters from yelling racist epithets at rival players fell short.
In a statement, Richardson also criticised BYU for taking too long to address the fans’ actions.
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), which is hosting the Wisconsin Triennial this year, has been accused of “institutional racial violence” by black female artists who are participating in the exhibition.
The paintings of around half of the 23 artists that are featured in the exhibition have been withheld in protest. The accusations were made public by “the collective artists of the MMoCA 2022 Wisconsin Triennial” in an open letter. The performance began in April and is scheduled to end in late October.
They charged the museum with “shameful maltreatment of the Black artists, contractors, and personnel during the show” in the letter, which was released on August 19.
In a statement released after the letter was published, the museum refuted the accusations, calling them “inappropriate and false.”
The damage to an installation created by Madison-based artist Lilada Gee is the focus of the claims. The artwork was vandalized in June when it was placed in the museum’s incomplete state using paint and glitter that were readily available in the exhibition gallery. The artwork, according to the museum, was misunderstood by a family with young children as an interactive piece.
Prior to the triennial, the museum’s administration had made several requests to address racial violence and equity-related concerns. Twenty artists, curators, and activists wrote to the museum in the months before the occurrences involving Gee and her artwork to support the hiring of Laster. The charges in that letter, which was delivered to Brungardt and the museum’s board of trustees, concerned Laster’s engagement as curator and “internal dissent.”
The head of a local NAACP branch in Florida has resigned, citing “racial marginalization” from others in the civil rights organization as a South Asian woman.
Dr. Vanessa Toolsie, an elected vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Orange County branch, took over as president in March when Tiffany Hughes resigned to compete for a Florida legislature seat.
She submitted a lengthy resignation letter on the NAACP branch’s Facebook page on Sunday, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
She also posted a brief statement on her personal Facebook page, saying, “I shall NO LONGER TOLERATE ANY RACE ABUSE AGAINST ME FOR BEING A #ProudBrownWoman OF #SouthAsian AND #Caribbean ANCESTRY.” “It is abhorrently sad that I have regularly been forced to face this hateful bigotry in anti-racist spaces,” she continued.
According to the Sentinel, Toolsie accused a member of the organization’s executive board of attempting to exclude her from the annual gala, ignoring her emails, and purposefully failing to send out accurate and timely meeting announcements in a malicious attempt to sabotage her and impede her effectiveness.
It would be “hypocritical” for Toolsie to continue serving as president of an organization that is “against racism and oppression, while I continue to be treated with such bold disproportionate inequality, maliciously racistly oppressed,” she wrote. Toolsie had attempted to resolve this internally for months, but her superiors had not taken any action to stop the harassment and racial marginalization before she announced her resignation.
A Connecticut boy was out selling discount cards in the annual fundraiser for Enfield’s football team on Saturday when he was racially abused, intimidated and called a racial slur by one of the households, he approached on Haynes Street.
“As he walked onto their property, a woman yelled at him to get off her property, and then I guess the son opened the window, he is 22, and proceeded to tell my son to get off the property or he will shoot him, and then called him the n-word and proceeded to berate him as he walked away,” Jackson said.
Kelley Jackson said her 14-year-old son Jakobi backed away from the property, hands in the air.
“Because he simply wanted to let them know I’m leaving and I’m fine,” Jackson explained.
Jakobi informed his brother and the football coaches, who contacted the police.
Jackson described her son as “humble.” He began playing football when he was six years old.
According to Enfield police, the incident was thoroughly investigated, and one of the residents acknowledged to using a racial slur. Authorities claim Jakobi and the resident had conflicting reports of whether or not a threatening statement was made.
“According to the police, it’s a case of he said, she said.” “According to the homeowner, he did not make these threats,” Jackson explained.
Officials argue that even though the racial epithet is profoundly hurtful, using it alone does not break any criminal statute.
The town manager responded to Saturday’s incident, saying what happened was unacceptable.
“I believe I speak for the majority of the community when I say we were both appalled and upset that incidences like this continue to occur across the country, state, and even in our own town,” Town Manager Ellen Zoppo-Sassu said.
On Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., the town green will hold a community conversation about race, diversity, and equity.
CHELSEA is looking into allegations of racist abuse directed at Tottenham player Son Heung-min during Sunday’s London derby at Stamford Bridge.
The incident occurred in the second half when the South Korean Tottenham player walked over to take a corner.
As he took the set-piece, the Spurs star was booed by the Shed End.
According to The Athletic, a video has emerged of a racist gesture directed toward the Tottenham player.
Three Manchester United season-ticket holders were suspended in April 2021 after abusing Son online following the Red Devils’ 3-1 triumph at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Two years earlier, a West Ham fan was punished for racially insulting Son during a Carabao Cup match.
Following a tense contest between Chelsea and Tottenham on Sunday, the game concluded in a 2-2 draw.
With a stunning volley from a corner, Kalidou Koulibaly gave the hosts the lead in the first half.
Midway through the second half, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg equalized.
With 13 minutes remaining, Reece James put Thomas Tuchel’s side ahead again.
Chelsea appeared to be on course for a well-deserved three points.
But in stoppage time, Harry Kane rose to head home a dramatic late equalizer to earn the visitors a point.
Following the final whistle, Tuchel and Antonio Conte almost collided for the second time in the afternoon, trading words after an explosive handshake.
Both managers received red cards because of their actions.
Chelsea will play Leeds in the Premier League this weekend, while Tottenham will host Wolves.
Jonathan Butler, a South African-born singer, and composer, claims he was racially profiled at the American restaurant Goose & Gander after the manager followed him to his car to see if they had left a tip for the waiter who served him and his friends.
Butler claims that the manager followed him and his pals back to their car, thinking they hadn’t tipped their server.
“I must say, we had a fantastic supper. The bill arrived, and I paid it, and we handled the payment as well as the server.
Butler went on to claim that they took care of their server and nicely tipped the waiter.
He claimed that he returned to the restaurant to confront the manager, who then attempted to talk him out of it by claiming that he didn’t mean to insult him. Butler, on the other hand, claimed that returning to the restaurant to confront the manager meant he had already been offended and mistreated for who he was as a person.
Butler stated that the manager did not treat him with humanity when he addressed him and that the treatment at the company reminded him of his childhood in South Africa.
“We have to get rid of this idea that he has the right to follow me out to my car just because of the color of my skin and the way I dress…” Butler stated this in his TikTok video.
Butler was the first non-white performer to be heard on South African radio and to appear on national television in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, hailed Butler’s music for inspiring him during his captivity.
Employees at an Amazon warehouse in Joliet, Illinois, have complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about corporate mistreatment, racial discrimination, and retribution.
According to the complaint submitted on Tuesday, a group of Black employees at the MDW2 Fulfilment Centre claimed that since late 2021, a racially hostile work environment has been exacerbated by racist death threats written in bathroom stalls, Confederate symbols on co-workers’ clothing, and a lack of security and accountability.
Institutional abuse and women’s rights lawyer Tamara Holder said her clients are increasingly asking for financial compensation for mental distress brought on by demanding working circumstances in addition to changes in the workplace to properly address and resolve these concerns.
“Right now, we don’t know how much that sum equals. But I can tell you that after working in a racially unfriendly environment, individuals are going through a lot of emotional pain “She spoke with ABC News. “Our message to Amazon is that their actions following our cases being public simply increase our damages since consumers are getting more fearful instead of less,”
Holder expressed concern for the case’s future and the lives of her clients as more attention was given to the situation and that employees were reluctant to voice their concerns further for fear of additional reprisal from the MDW2 Fulfilment Centre management.
According to claims made by Holder, who spoke to ABC News, “They are supposedly warning their staff that if they speak up, they would be fired because they signed an agreement to be silent.”
Davis said that “they were attempting to sweep things under the rug.” “It was weird how this scenario was handled.”
Holder promised to do every effort to see the complaint through and make sure the opinions of her clients are taken into consideration.
A U.S. foreign service officer is still working for the State Department about a year and a half after it was discovered that he was the creator of a racist and antisemitic blog, and he still publishes on the website almost daily.
The owner of the website BloodAndFaith.com, Fritz Berggren, who has worked with Afghan immigrants in Bahrain, routinely criticizes the Jewish religion, members of the LGBTQ community, and Black Americans while promoting the idea that the United States should be a Christian nation-state. Politico broke the news of Berggren’s affiliation with the website, where his name is prominently featured, for the first time in February 2021.
This month, a State-Federal representative informed Jewish Insider that “Mr. Berggren is still a department employee.” The spokeswoman noted that while “we cannot comment on specific personnel situations,” “allegations that an employee has broken a law, rule, or department policy are treated seriously.”
70 Jewish State Department workers demanded Berggren’s dismissal in a letter to Secretary of State Tony Blinken a year ago. Blinken replied by noting that workers who are under investigation for discriminatory behavior may face disciplinary action “up to and including separation where justified,” according to Foreign Policy. Blinken has aimed to advocate diversity within the agency.
Berggren frequently writes about religion. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Miami in 2001.
“There may be no way to cross this gap. Who will support Christ in this? Who will support the Jews in this? You can’t hold both at once, he penned in January. The next day, he wrote: “We continue that war against the Jews, who fight against the Prince of God, Jesus Christ,” in a larger post criticizing Jews’ supposed ability to dominate “the narrative.”
His website, which he founded in 2017, exhorts white Americans to forge tighter racial relationships on the About page. “Just as Blacks are proud and Hispanics have extremely strong blood identity groups, Europeans must regain their blood and faith,” asserted Berggren.