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ô_o Bananas. Thrown at a black player. Are you serious?
Stop. Just fucking stop.
You know me, I'm not one to be all "OMG SOMETHING HAPPENED TO A BLACK PERSON THEREFORE IT'S RACIST" (quite the opposite usually but that's another post) but that's pretty nasty. And as a fan of hockey who's not the same color as the ice it's played on (and very self-conscious, btw, though I try not to show it. But it's one of the reasons I'm nervous to go to Vancouver alone, not gonna lie (oh god and I'm hispanic too? do they even have hispanic people there? speaking spanish and looking at all the confused faces is fun though)), this unsettles me. If it were a thing, for Detroiters to throw bananas (though this happened up in Canada but it was against Detroit), or for the Flyers to get bananas thrown at them they deserve it, I wouldn't think anything of it, but....
And thank you, Wayne Simmonds, for not acting like a Flyer about it.
Stop. Just fucking stop.
You know me, I'm not one to be all "OMG SOMETHING HAPPENED TO A BLACK PERSON THEREFORE IT'S RACIST" (quite the opposite usually but that's another post) but that's pretty nasty. And as a fan of hockey who's not the same color as the ice it's played on (and very self-conscious, btw, though I try not to show it. But it's one of the reasons I'm nervous to go to Vancouver alone, not gonna lie (oh god and I'm hispanic too? do they even have hispanic people there? speaking spanish and looking at all the confused faces is fun though)), this unsettles me. If it were a thing, for Detroiters to throw bananas (though this happened up in Canada but it was against Detroit), or for the Flyers to get bananas thrown at them they deserve it, I wouldn't think anything of it, but....
And thank you, Wayne Simmonds, for not acting like a Flyer about it.