Ex Manchester United, Patrice Evra has said racism must be kicked out like a “bad habit” but he has experienced a lot in his life to be affected by racist abuse.
The former Manchester United, Juventus and Monaco left-back disclosed his retirement from football last week and has been looking back on his 20-year professional career.
Speaking on racism recently, he said to Dailymail, “I have played in Italy, too, and they have thrown bananas and made monkey noises,”
“When you are strong inside, these things don’t touch you. They make you stronger.
“What I hate is when I know someone is weaker than me and it will affect them. In my life, I go through many things and you can’t hurt me with monkey noises or bananas.
“It’s when you talk about my family.”
“I’m here because it is not fair to do that to someone,”
“We are living in 2019.
“It will start to be like a habit and that is really bad. We can talk about terrorism and when a bomb is somewhere, we just say, “Oh, another one”.
“We won’t be in shock because of the society we live in. Everything is a habit.
“But I worry that something really big will happen and that is why we have to stop it.”
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