Blackface is bad.
It really should be that simple. If you ar thinking about doing it, don’t do it.
Alas, it seems more and more of these type of stories are coming. Here are the details via TMZ Sports.
Pro hockey player Akim Aliu tells TMZ Sports the racism he was forced to endure over the years held him back from reaching his full potential … and the proof is in the racist pictures.
You’re looking at pics of Aliu at the 2011 Halloween party for the Colorado Eagles — which, at the time, was the minor league affiliate for the Winnipeg Jets.
Aliu says people at the party laughed at him — and his instinct was to raise hell and cause a scene — but he was new to the club and there were families at the party “so I tried to play it off as cool as possible.”
A short time later, Aliu says he demanded to be traded to another club.
It’s just one of the MANY examples of racism black players at all levels of hockey have been forced to deal with. Aliu recently made headlines after revealing NHL coach Bill Peters hurled the n-word during a locker room rant back in the day.
“It’s been a tough road and obviously I’ve bumped into a lot of barriers with racism and discrimination,” Aliu says.
Flip the pages for the racist pics and video of Aliu telling his story.
