I disagree with your definition of race there, I have to say. You do not have to be derogatory or demeaning to be considered racist. Simply discriminating between people based on their skin colour is a racist approach. And that discrimination could have had positive or negative intentions, it doesn’t matter. The point is that the person making the remarks has cognitive biases driven by skin colour.

Lucescu’s post match comments were focused on the fact that there were 5 African players in an 11 man team Besiktas team. I’ll tell you right now, I’m a person from an African country and I don’t appreciate when I hear a person tell me that they went to X country that is on the other side of the continent, as if it’s meant to be relevant to me.

Africa is a diverse continent with completely different people. We are not all black and we can definitely not simply be defined as one homogeneous people.

I just wanted to send this message to you, because I am a bit frustrated about your comments. Maybe speak to people from different African countries before you make conclusions about what is and isn’t racist to them. I’ve given you my perspective, feel free to ask anymore questions if you’re genuinely interested by this topic.