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Since the outbreak of the "blm" black human rights movement in the United States, the topic of anti-racial discrimination has always been on the cusp of public opinion.
This wave has even spread to all regions of the world, and many people are cautious in their words and deeds, for fear of saying the wrong thing and being labeled "racially discriminatory";
However, at this sensitive juncture, there is a black man who wants to "hit the muzzle of the gun"...
That's it
Sam okyere is a Ghanaian male artist living in South Korea, who has starred in many Korean hot variety shows such as "Non-Summit", "Real Man" and "Korean Foreigner".
Funny talking, he has always been loved by the audience, and his influence in society is naturally extraordinary.
As a public figure, he should always pay attention to his words and deeds, not to mention that he is in a sensitive period now.
As a result, his recent remarks about racism have brought himself the disaster of "banning"...
On August 6, Sam posted a photo on Instagram of a Korean student wearing a black face imitating "black carrying a coffin" as a graduation performance.
In his post, he accused these students of demeaning black people, which caused a lot of public opinion at that time!
As a black man, it is understandable to be offended by the "black man carrying the coffin" stem,
Even the South Korean media pointed out the mistakes of this group of students, especially when this anti-racism movement is so popular.
But the problem is that netizens found that the content expressed in the Instagram post published by Sam when accusing this behavior is very inconsistent in the use of Korean and English .
Among them, he expressed only the unpleasant position of being a black person in Korean, while the english expression focused on criticizing Koreans!
At the same time, he also carried hashtags such as #notoignorance (against ignorance) and #teakpop (behind-the-scenes gossip in the Korean kpop pop industry) at the end of the post, which was also bombarded by Korean netizens!
Sam, who then realized that he had caused public outrage, immediately issued this apology and explanation on Instagram on August 7:
"I apologize to everyone for the controversial photos and text posted yesterday!
In fact, I am not trying to belittle students in any way, I just want to express my opinion, but it seems to be a little out of bounds in the process.
In addition, I apologize to the students who posted the photos without their permission, because I did not respect their privacy enough.
However, the part I expressed in English did not mean to criticize the Korean education system, but I could understand why people misunderstood me.
I didn't know that the word 'teakpop' meant badly to 'kpop', and blamed me for being too stupid!
I have been in Korea for many years and have been loved by many fans.
But because I didn't think it through enough, I apologize to you again here.
In the future, I will definitely try to make myself better and enrich my knowledge in case I make mistakes again..."
Sam's apology statement seems to make people feel that he wants to excuse himself.
Netizens also seem to see through this, so they have no intention of letting him go easily, and turned out a "black history" of his racial discrimination many years ago.
As early as 2015, Sam participated in a "non-summit" program on JTBC (Korea's Central Toyo Broadcasting Corporation) as a "representative" of Ghana.
In one of the sessions, representatives of each country needed to introduce an interesting but unique program in their home country.
Then the representative from Belgium, the TV celebrity Julian, talked about the "ugly face contest" held in Spain for many years.
The rules of this competition are to require each contestant to use only the facial muscles to make what they think is the most interesting expression, and finally the judges will judge the funniest expression to win!
So after the host heard about this competition, he suggested that this competition be held on the spot, and the participants were naturally the representatives of all the countries present.
Then everyone took turns to pose the facial expressions they thought were the most interesting, and it was a lot of fun
However, when it was sam's turn, he pulled the corners of his eyes to the sides with his hands and showed a strange expression with his upper row of teeth.
Regardless of whether he violated the rules of the game by using his hand, his action alone caused great controversy.
You know, this is an action called "chinky eyes", which is a vicious act that mocks the stereotypes of Asians!
Although some people thought that Sam did this just to set off the atmosphere of the show, such an explanation was completely unsatisfactory to the public.
Among them, some netizens directly pointed out that his malicious and mocking behavior was very problematic whether intentional or unintentional, and even implied that he was a double-standard hypocrite:
"Painting someone's face black is racist, don't you make your eyes like that?"
The point is,
After the controversy of this sexism storm expanded, some of Sam's earlier dirty sexually suggestive behaviors were gradually turned over by netizens.
Some Korean media even opened with the headline "No racial discrimination is allowed, but sexual harassment" when reporting on this matter, questioning his character!
It turned out that in March 2019, Sam had posted a photo with South Korean actress Park Eun-hye on Instagram,
At that time, a netizen left such a sexually suggestive comment at the bottom:
“cute，once you go black you never go back~”
The meaning of this sentence is - "Once you have tasted the taste of black x (sexual organs), then you will never come back!" “
What I didn't expect was that sam not only did not accuse the netizen, but even replied: "Preach (completely agree)!" ”
Therefore, many netizens think that sam's behavior is obviously sexually harassing female celebrities!
Not only that, but someone else turned out his earlier "sexual harassment" behavior in another variety show -
At that time, Sam was recording the "radio star" program with South Korean actress Choi Ru-jin, and when he was seated, he praised the woman as "really very beautiful".
However, due to the boldness of his eyes, The Korean male singer Kyu-hyun, who was also on the sidelines, reminded him, "Don't measure girls like this"!
As a result, Sam did not care to respond: "We Ghanaians usually look at the figure first when we meet, I hope you don't see anything strange!" ”
But even if it is true, this is also in a foreign country, no matter what, you must follow the customs of other countries, otherwise it is really offensive and disrespectful.
What's more, at that time, Cui Ruzhen himself, after feeling unwell, also embarrassed to say, "This is also too much to stare at"...
After these black materials were exposed, many netizens also completely accused sam -
"Originally, I liked Sam this person, but these behaviors really crossed the line!"
The whole person was shocked, go to the special! ”
“？？？ Do you mean to say that this is 'Ghanaian culture'? ”
After continuous shelling, sam directly cancelled his ins account, and did not make any replies and comments on these "black histories"...
How to say it,
If you want others to respect yourself,
Learn to respect others first...