Luis Suarez racism ban exposes a lack of cultural understanding by the FA

According to Evra its one mans word against another it was never proving he say it ten times but I don't know maybe he did.

I don't know how Evra can claims he said it ten time but goes on record and says he doesn't think Suarez is racist.

It was said 10 times...yet not heard by anyone else once.

Its all about context....and in the context Suarez kept using it then how can it not be considered offensive? It was said to annoy Evra, he knows Evra was European. Said casually to a friend then fine if his friend accepts its meaning but said to an opponent...to your direct opponent, someone you are not personal close friends with, in that match against your biggest and most hated rival?

And we are supposed to believe that its all just one big misunderstanding and it was innocent and it didn't have any malicious intentions?

If you really believe that then you are probably naive.

I used to do Spanish lessons and all negro means is black...and stating a fact isnt racist.

Racism - a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others.

I know negro means black but it still doesn't make sense to why he said it, of all the things to call him why comment on his skin colour? Imagine I went around to every black person and just called them 'hey black guy' over and over again. I'm not black but I'm assuming they'll get irritated by it.

Dude latin america is just not like the US or Europe, you don't call black people, African-American (why call them that most black people have never been to africa, they're just Americans.) or call them coloured people. Negro is what we use when talking to black people. Its just that black people LOVE to play the race card. Other races trying to oppress us. BULLSHIT. Latinos down own shit to the african americans, we didn't keep them as slaves, hell we were the slaves to the europeans as well. We all have mix backgrounds.

Yeah North America and Europe are developed nations, but they still hold the racism deep within, thats why white people can't even call black people black or anything. Gotta thread carefully on those words.

Well said, if they considered Suares's culture there would be no ban or fine. Latin people have no issues with skin color, hair color, height, weight or eye color. We call our friends who are fat "gordos", we call our blond friends "canches" or "gueros", we call our short friends "enanos", we call our black friends "negros". its not racist. Only certain regions in the world have a problem calling people for what they physically look like because of bad history of racism in their country. If you listen to a lot of Cuban or Dominican Replubic artists you always hear "negra" o "negro" which is said out of our customs. Don't accuse people from other countries to be racist because people in your country feel racist if they call someone black. Being black isn't bad so why would calling it out be bad? Ya no mas pelear. Queremos a nuestros negritos y blanquitos igual. Azuca