Mo Farah claims in instagram live video he was racially harassed at airport

You need to talk to your bro, he's got some stuff you need to understand about race relations.

Bigotry is dead? Not sure if I should laugh or cry...

El Keniano wrote:

Barakus Obama wrote:

Surprise surprise, el keniano calls a european nation "awful people". The guy coming from a nation where they riot and kill each other during elections.

Better to riot amongst ourselves over elections (never once bothering refugees or other foreigners) than to devolve into a nation of regressive, hateful xenophobes. Your allegedly civilised continent is turning back the clock to the good, old 1930s.

Germany has taken in large numbers of immigrants. In 2016 there were 8.6 million people with an immigrant background in Germany. A nation that does far more good than Kenya has ever been close to. If you think Europe is like what you describe, you need to get out of your bubble and read something other than whatever the European version of Breitbart is.

A country with lots of crime, corruption in government, riots during elections, militants killing many many people. Kenya is a shithole compared to Germany.

Balding Eagle wrote:

You need to talk to your bro, he's got some stuff you need to understand about race relations.

Bigotry is dead? Not sure if I should laugh or cry...

No. That was typed incorrectly. I changed it. I was agreeing with weldon but in a weird way.

It's hard to know what is and isn't racially motivated. As a white man, I'm privileged in that I can assume it's not based on race (although I'm sure some discrimination of whites occurs ).

Discrimination happens to everyone is all i was trying to say.

Check out this article I just came across.

wejo wrote:

One of the concepts of "white privilege" is you get to go through life not questioning whether someone is doing something to you because of your race. Forget actual racism, but not having to wonder whether something is racist is a luxury Farah doesn't have.

I flew this weekend and I couldn't believe how nonchalantly they really pat your junk with the back of their hand if you get screened for patdown in TSA precheck. If I was a famous guy of colo like Mo Farah, I might wonder why they did it to me even though I think it's random.

That's disgusting, and is exactly why I don't fly anymore.

Why do security people need to know where you going? They aren't in charge of who gets to travel to what destination. Just make sure that people aren't bringing weapons into the airport, and let customs and immigrations worry about who is going where.

This is kind of like being asked where you're going by a cop when you get pulled over for speeding. Yeah, I'll just answer the question because I don't feel like making an issue of it, but it's still an overstep, and frankly I don't really fault anyone who does push back.

A Somali Snowfkake wrote:

To be clear:

1) Mo refused to answer where he was going

2) Mo refused search

3) Mo escalated the situation by becoming agitated

4) Mo refused to leave the security area, blocking up the line

5) Mo began filming in the security area- which is forbidden- and refused to stop when asked

I would say that he's lucky that all he received was a tug on the arm.

What you're regurgitating is the office police report of the incident, designed to try and cover their misdeeds, and which therefore has zero credibility.

I don't believe in the least their report of what happened.

Looked to me like the entitled little black guy was asking for it. Setting it all up for his little selfie short film. Looked to rehearsed for me to feel sorry for him.

I'm crazy impressed with you brojos today! What's next, country over party???

not their business wrote:

Why do security people need to know where you going? They aren't in charge of who gets to travel to what destination. Just make sure that people aren't bringing weapons into the airport, and let customs and immigrations worry about who is going where.

This is kind of like being asked where you're going by a cop when you get pulled over for speeding. Yeah, I'll just answer the question because I don't feel like making an issue of it, but it's still an overstep, and frankly I don't really fault anyone who does push back.

Sometimes they’ll do it to check against the ticket. Are you traveling to get somewhere or are you traveling for something else? Those traveling for another reason other that to get to a specific destination usually don’t care where they’re going and what it says on the ticket.

Mo is the worst ambassador for our sport ever, and I'm including lying hypocrites like Carl Lewis, Regina Jacobs, Marion Jones, Coe and Radcliffe. It's a tall order but he manages to fill it.

Schiklgruber wrote:

http://www.espn.co.uk/athletics/story/_/id/22674940/german-police-deny-sir-mo-farah-claims-racial-harassment

So why is he going to Ethiopia? Hmmm suspicious ?

Thank You Sir Mo Farah for speaking up 4 the voiceless

I don't blv one word of the official German police statement

#ONEMOMILE

hopkirk wrote:

Tommy2Nuttz wrote:

Not understanding what MO just faced is the perfect definition of white privilege...

+1

if they could just run a mile in his shoes ...

+1

everyone deserves human dignity

This is correct. Any international traveler would know this.

set it up wrote:

Looked to me like the entitled little black guy was asking for it. Setting it all up for his little selfie short film. Looked to rehearsed for me to feel sorry for him.

Farah was leaving the area, walking way from the rude official, when the guy came up and kept shoving him.

You must be a moron to think he was asking for it.

No one deserves to be treated that way.

Uhuh... right... wrote:

set it up wrote:

Looked to me like the entitled little black guy was asking for it. Setting it all up for his little selfie short film. Looked to rehearsed for me to feel sorry for him.

Farah was leaving the area, walking way from the rude official, when the guy came up and kept shoving him.

You must be a moron to think he was asking for it.

No one deserves to be treated that way.

He was filming in a security area, snowflake. Follow the rules, and everything goes just fine.

Continually pushing and shoving someone like that, especially when they repeatedly say not to is intimidation and harassment. The real issue though is why Mo Farah was singled out for a security check when nobody else was. We all know why and its blatant discrimination. Not sure what they were suspicious of or whether they thought he may be carrying a weapon, explosives or drugs or whether they were just generally suspicious but to profile somebody and single them out like that because of the colour of their skin is racism.

I wouldn't compliment me too much. I had to go google what wokeness meant.

I did a class at my church on racial justice. Read some Tehnissi Coates and part of the original academic article on "white privilege". Not a hard concept to understand.

Having said that I disagree with a lot of what Coates says. He's totally 100% focused on race and I think that's what we're trying to get away from. But it was nice to read his whole book to try and understand some of his rage.

How do we know he was singled out because of the color of his skin?

He was singled out and if there is another reason other than his race I would like to know it. Maybe the way he dressed, maybe his demeanour, I cannot imagine that would lead to him being singled out and to the harassment he was subjected to though.