The Manager of Manchester City Football Club, Pep Guardiola has talked the about anti-racism protests being staged globally by Black Lives Matter protesters after a white cop killed George Floyd last month.
During his post match interview after last night’s match against Arsenal, Guardiola said he was “ashamed of what white people have done to black people.”
Guardiola said he wanted change when it comes to racism issues all around the world .
He said: “White people should say sorry for the way we have treated black people for 400 years.
“We should send a thousand million messages for the black people. I’m embarrassed and ashamed of what the white people have done for the black people.
“How people can think they are different? All the gestures are good and positive. Everything we can do to make it conscious, it is not acceptable.
“We have to do a lot of things for the black people which we have not done so far.”
In the same vein, Manchester City striker, Raheem Sterling who launched his anti-racism social media campaign recently feels English football is “going in the right direction” as far as the issue of tackling racism is concerned.
Sterling made this known while talking to Sky Sports. He said: “I see it as a massive step for the Premier League to allow something like that (kneeling before matches and wearing black lives matter jerseys) to happen and it shows we’re going in the right direction.
“Little by little we’re seeing change. It was natural, it was organic. We saw the teams do it in the earlier kick-off and thought it was something we had to do as well.”
