“We have to get away from this negative image of black skin and big lips. Kyle Walker’s black, but he looks nothing like that sweet – that would be the old that all look alike. What would have been racist is if you showed Kyle Walker and that sweet. But that’s not a negative representation because you cannot compare. If you make a negative representation, that’s when it can be punished. So that’s not comparing any racial stereotype,”īarnes continued: “There is absolutely nothing wrong with making representations of race, colour or ethnicity. Why is that unconsciously racist? He’s not showing a representation of anyone’s race, because Benjamin Mendy is a black human being and a sweet is not a race. Regardless of whether we think it looks like Benjamin Mendy, he does.
He’s seen an image that he thinks looks like Benjamin Mendy. Then when I want to continue this conversation two days later, ‘oh, no, that’s old news now…’ So I phone up Sky and say ‘can we talk about this?’”Ĭity star Silva was given a fine, a one match ban and ordered to go on an education course after a tweet he sent about Benjamin Mendy was ruled to have constituted an “aggravated breach” of the Football Association’s rules on social media behaviour because it appeared to reference the French left-back’s race.īut Barnes did not agree with the FA ruling.
“What gets to me is when people want to dip their toe in and talk about terrible. I say I’m making everybody accountable,” Barnes told The Offside Rule Exclusives.
Jonathan Liew did a piece saying that John Barnes is making nobody accountable. The 56-year-old, who was racially abused during his time as a player, was recently criticised for defending Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva and in the past has been lambasted for supporting ex-Liverpool forward Luis Suarez. John Barnes has hit back at journalists and pundits who have claimed he is a racism apologist.
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