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Original Title: Evra on Racism: “I’m involved in a lot of education and meeting kids, because I want to understand where it comes from. You don’t wake up as a racist person. It also goes both ways. You can be Asian and racist. You can be Black and racist. You can be white and racist. It’s not about one side.”
“It’s sad,” Evra says. “Vinicius has to still go on and on and on about it. He’s the man targeted, that’s what he will feel.”
“When those things happen, you feel injustice because, even if you are the one who says what happened, people (who are accused) will play the victim. That’s (what) happened with Luis Suarez and that’s now what happened with Vinicius. People complain more about his attitude. They say: ‘Why is he dancing, why is he provoking?’. They give an excuse to a person to call him names just because he’s dancing when he’s scored a goal.”
Evra says he rejected outreach from FIFA to be part of anti-racism campaigns, saying it ought to be a matter for the law. “But is the punishment a solution?” he wonders. “I don’t know… I’m involved in a lot of education and meeting kids, because I want to understand where it comes from. You don’t wake up as a racist person. It also goes both ways. You can be Asian and racist. You can be Black and racist. You can be white and racist. It’s not about one side. It just exists.”