The people of Argentina are shutting down racism allegations
\nArgentinian locals are defending themselves after being hit with allegations of racism following the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s football team and its fans have been criticised for their behaviour throughout the tournament, including Sunday\u2019s (19 July) final which saw them lose 1-0 to Spain before a brawl kicked off.<\/p>\n
Advertisements
\nAmong the country\u2019s critics has been A-list actor Samuel L Jackson, 77, who took to social media on Sunday night to urge Black people not to support Argentina.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Advertisements
\nThe post he shared, created by the SEC Black Alumni Network, suggested that Argentina has \u2018historically been one of, if not the most, racist countries in the world\u2019.<\/p>\n
Jackson\u2019s post sparked massive debate online, with Argentinians flooding the Django Unchained actor\u2019s Instagram with disappointed comments.<\/p>\n
Now, Argentinian locals are speaking out in defence of their country, claiming that they\u2019ve been grossly misunderstood.<\/p>\n
Advertisements
\nThe post he shared, created by the SEC Black Alumni Network, suggested that Argentina has \u2018historically been one of, if not the most, racist countries in the world\u2019.<\/p>\n
Jackson\u2019s post sparked massive debate online, with Argentinians flooding the Django Unchained actor\u2019s Instagram with disappointed comments.<\/p>\n
Now, Argentinian locals are speaking out in defence of their country, claiming that they\u2019ve been grossly misunderstood.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The people of Argentina are shutting down racism allegations Argentinian locals are defending themselves after being hit with allegations of racism following the 2026 FIFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14888,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions\/14888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}