UEFA Euro 2020 Football Championship

I'm sorry but I still fail to see what their skin colour or ethnicity has got to do with anything.

Hi,

I'm just disappointed all around. First by the comment, and then by the reactions. Both are not quite my idea of how we can solve the issue and help each other better.

I have for over 50 years in film and theater, never used a line for separating actors and actresses and said so in a recent comment about your favorite _____ actor. To me, they are all actors and all of them deserve some serious consideration, that for all intents and purposes are not getting.

I did not take, in the 80' at UCSB a course in "Black Film History" because I did not like the differing idea of not believing that they did not deserve the same cultural respect as anyone else, and even had a talk with the instructor about it. He agreed, but he said, what we gonna do? Let all these films, theater and music die?

I went out and bought the 3 books for the class, I still have them, and I love them. The respect and care for the actors and actresses is immense, and the history has been that they were not exactly given a proper chance given the state of ownership by the big name movie studios in America of all the film showing houses, leaving these "lesser" films to students in schools in California (all of the UC system had those courses then, specially Berkeley and Stanford!) and to film showcases as a Festival. AND, to this day, the work of many of these fine people is still left behind and not reviewed even in places like USA TODAY or any publication, which is sad all around. 

It is said that this is a case for "education" and their leaders, but I can't help thinking that those leaders have failed to remove the demarcation line about people. We all have 2 arms, 2 legs, and so on, and to differentiate in any other way is very sad indeed. In fact, a lot of my tastes in music go way back, to even music from other cultures and people, a true universal and creative effort about these things.

I'm not sure, or convinced that things are too different in Europe, and specially Germany, however, I look forward to things improving in that area for everyone.

FOR ME, PROGRESSIVE MUSIC, IS NOT ABOUT COLOR AND OUR DIFFERENCES. IT HAS TO BE ABOUT THE MUSIC ONLY AND NOTHING BUT THE MUSIC. AND IN SPORT THE SAME THING. THE MENTIONING OR SEPARATION OF THE FOLKS INVOLVED IS NOT RIGHT AND INAPPROPRIATE AND ONLY SHOWS HOW WE THINK ONE GROUP IS SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER AND OTHER UNSAVORY IDEAS AND SITUATIONS.

I'm not sure that "social media" can solve this. The only way we can do this is to look at the mirror and realize that we are all pretty much the same. And while I think the ladies have a right to their opinions, i tend to think that NONE of their postings over the years have shown a lack of sensitivity or appreciation for a lot of different music, however, (with that said), I would have wished that the statement was worded differently in order to prevent the sad result that we got here on PA.

PA is not the place for that discussion. I WOULD PREFER THAT WE LEAD IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. We have been, and are (above all) about music and the people that create it, and we don't look at Jimi, or many others as a person of color and we shouldn't do the same for someone that missed a penalty, something that has happened many times to the 2 Englishmen that scored their penalties, and there would have been no guarantees that any others would have fared any better. The GK for Italy had done his homework, was the main issue, and as such was able to help his team better. 

Please all ... apologize and move on. We must not create barriers and lines about people and specially (in our case) about the music! Or indeed, in sport!

At the end of the day Italy looked a very good team throughout the tournament.

True, but they were both on yellow cards so would have walked if there were any further attempts at strangulation.