The basketball player and former Unicaja player Jayson Granger reported having been the victim of racist insults with expressions such as “monkey” and “black shit” uttered on the court by rival players and by spectators. Granger, who has been a point guard at Club Atlético Peñarol since 2023, shared a message through his Instagram account in which he revealed that he had suffered racism in the match between his team and Club Atlético Aguada in the past. Friday.
Jayson Granger
As he explained in his message, the player decided to expose the situation after the repercussions of an incident that occurred in the previous match between both teams due to the Uruguayan Basketball Leaguein which Granger played the Aguada player Santiago “Pepo” Vidal death-threatening gestures. Although the Peñarol point guard apologized after the incident, also with a written message posted on his social networks, alleging that it had been a “out of character” reaction for “losing his nerve” in the face of “racism,” the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (FUBB) He was suspended for three games for the threats. His club was able to avoid the sanction by paying a financial fine. Granger played again against Vidal’s team on Friday, a match that ended with another defeat for the Penarol by 88-74 and after which the point guard made his statements on Instagram.
«For the good of the competition and as I was advised, I have remained silent until now about what happened on the day of my incident with teammate Vidal. But after what happened yesterday in the game, once again I suffer the racism and gratuitous hatred of a full field at a sporting event and I am forced to speak, “he wrote. According to Granger, during the game, the insult “black shit at the top of the voice of an entire stadium” was one of several racist insults he received as part of what he identifies as a repeated practice in Uruguay “when trying to go out and play basketball.” ».
«This apparently is tolerated here and has become naturalized to such an extent that it is not given the slightest importance, when in almost any other part of the world measures would be taken immediately. Nobody does anything here. “You look the other way,” he said. To which he reiterated that his gestures in the previous quote, which the local newspaper reported The Observer, They emulated “pointing and shooting him with a gun” and “cutting Vidal’s throat”, “they were not appropriate” and for that reason he apologized, he stressed that they arose “due to the accumulation of racism and hatred” experienced. Granger said he regretted that these insults came “also from the mouth of the rival player himself,” who said phrases like “you’re my monkey” and “you black bastard” that he transmitted to the referee team to receive in response “ironic smiles and comments like: ‘ I didn’t hear it’ or ‘it’s okay, I kept playing’.
«I also transmitted it to the Judge and the Federation, but apparently they did not consider it important, compared to my actions and my gestures. And in the end, I, and only I, ironically, turned out to be the culprit of this entire situation of which I am ultimately a victim,” he remarked. EFE
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