EDITORIAL
There was still a lot of reactions this weekend on the "Thuram affair". The most capped player of the French football team said in an interview with Corriere dello Sport : "It is necessary to have the courage to say that whites think they are superior and that they believe they are." Virginie Phulpin, in her editorial on Europe 1, alert. For her, do not be mistaken target.
"The impression it gives me is that we took advantage of the statement, at best unfortunate, Lilian Thuram to avert the eyes of the real problem. Basically, the problem is racism in the stadiums. Since the starting point of this story, it is still these fans of the Italian club Cagliari who shrieked monkeys targeting Lukaku, the player of Inter Milan. So for a few hours everyone was indignant. Until the interview of Thuram in the Italian press where he speaks of whites who think they are superior. So there, we completely forgot the subject of departure to engage in a good sterile controversy about his remarks, anti-white racism, everyone going from his more or less interesting anecdote. Obviously it's not the skin color that decides whether you're racist or not, I do not intend to defend this sentence from Lilian Thuram. But why are we focusing on his reaction rather than racism in the stadiums? Do you know the Chinese proverb 'when the wise man shows the moon, the idiot looks at his finger'? I will not make Lilian Thuram a wise man. But we, stop making fools ".
"It's been decades since the Italian football authorities, and even world football, do not act to eradicate racism"
To "stop making fools", we should take real action against racism in the stadiums. Not so simple, continues Virginie Phulpin.
"Nothing is happening, or almost nothing, it's been decades since the Italian football authorities, and even world football, do not act to eradicate racism in the stadiums." We can not fight racism with a slogan. It's cute, ' Football Against Racism ', but obviously it's useless, so we have to find other solutions, but here again we had the opportunity to really think about it, and we preferred look away and attack the former defender of the Blues.What will happen next? There will be other cases of racism in the stadiums.We can again say that racism is not Well, maybe Lilian Thuram will not talk about it anymore, but there will be a player or a former player who will issue a polemical sentence, and we'll start over again. if you have to ban from the stage for life anyone who grows monkey or if we have to stop the matches. can at least try, compare the points of view, rather than look elsewhere. "