Twitterati reacts to Ishant Sharma’s alleged racial abuse towards Darren Sammy
Sammy also released a video, talking about being differentiated on the basis of colour.
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The demise of George Floyd in the United States of America (USA) has created a lot of ruckus, surrounding racial abuses. The hashtag ‘BlackLivesMatter’ has been doing the rounds all over. A brutal picture of a policeman strangling Floyd with his knees didn’t help the cause either. Now it’s Darren Sammy’s turn to speak up on an incident that took place nearly six years ago.
Back in 2014, he played for the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL). Recalling a few of the moments, Sammy said he was once being racially abused by Ishant Sharma. The veteran uploaded a picture where he was posing with Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant and Dale Steyn.
The caption read, “Me, Bhuvi, Kaluu and gun sunrisers”. A few days ago, he also said that he, along with Sri Lanka’s Thisara Perera, was subjected to racism. He stated that at that time whey were unable to identify what they were being called.
Sammy also released a video, talking about being differentiated on the basis of colour. Moreover, he threatened to expose the ones, who were involved in the alleged wrongdoing. Even Andre Russell and Chris Gayle expressed their anger over Floyd’s death.
Darren Sammy lashes out
“Knowledge is power. So recently I discovered a word that I was being called was not what it actually meant I need some answers. So, before I start calling out names I need these individuals to reach out and please tell me there’s another meaning to that word and when I was being called it, it was all in love,” Sammy said in the video.
“I will be messaging those people, you guys know who you are, I must admit at that time when I was being called as that word I thought the word meant strong stallion or whatever it is, I did not know what it meant, every time I was called with that word, there was laughter at that moment, I thought teammates are laughing so it must be something funny,” he added.
In the meantime, the fans also had something to say about Sammy’s comments. To some extent, he became a butt of jokes on the social media.
Here’s how fans reacted to Sammy’s words: –
Ishant Sharma To Darren Sammy : pic.twitter.com/oXBtChqf5K
— Adarsh 2.0 (@Adarshdvn45) June 9, 2020
This is a cunning act from Darren Sammy just to bring racism issue into cricket just to stay in limelight.
"Just look at ishant's 2nd post". You will understand the cheap tactics of Darren Sammy. pic.twitter.com/FrDgKATnVx
— You (@Dev_Tweetz) June 9, 2020
Dear Sammy in india lot more words are used by friends in india like kaalu, angrez(for white) and many more. But this not intentionally to hurt anyone. These word are used for fun. So don't try to hyper it . If you start taking name also you will get same reply nothing more
— Ravi Mishra (@qwerty4321ravi) June 9, 2020
Wrt the Sammy situation, isn't it strange how saying 'black people' in English is totally fine while same words in literally all other languages is racist.
Ofc they themselves decide what to deem as racist & all should respect, but what's this weird Privilege to English language.— Abijit Ganguly (@AbijitG) June 9, 2020
Calling a black person black, white person white, brown person brown is not wrong, doing it with ill intentions and malice is wrong, why didnt he said gora for dale Steyn? Steyn is named "Gun" but kaalu for sammy ? pic.twitter.com/VaG6un1tuG
— Long May We Reign (@WeBleedBlue007) June 9, 2020
Daren Sammy himself posted photos with caption "Black Bros" & "Black Power". Then why he is raising the issue over "Kalu" ?? @darensammy88 pic.twitter.com/zXxZK1wh4F
— Mahirat (@MahiratDream11) June 9, 2020
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