The humanity has been fighting against the racial abuse for a long time; though the situation has improved to some extent, we still get to see incidents of racial abuse taking place on a regular basis. What makes it more worrisome is the fact that even the celebrities who have huge fan following all over the world get targeted many times by haters.
Jofra Archer, the England pacer, has become an integral part of the English cricket team as he performed brilliantly in the 2019 World Cup and Ashes as well. However, he also has to face racial slurs on social media networks as there is no shortage of insensitive individuals on the virtual world. But the good thing is that the England cricketers have always supported their Barbadian born teammate. Even Moeen Ali has slammed trollers for targeting Jofra Archer and he also demanded that all social media accounts should have the real photo and name of the account holder.
Recently in the first test match against Pakistan, Jofra Archer was given the chance to lead the English team out of the dressing room. This was done under the campaign #BlackLivesMatter and it was appreciated all over the world. Nevertheless, there were some who didn’t like it and one of them was a Twitter user Oliver Rounding who took to the micro-blogging site Twitter in order to troll Jofra as he said that it was worse to see him leading out.
The hater tweeted, “So every time somebody gets abused online they should get the team out? That’s what I meant by it getting silly. Honestly think him leading the team out makes it worse.”
Well, the English pacer was also not in mood to take it silently and he responded with, “I’ll let you know right now Oliver, today was a special day and people like you won’t ruin it.”
I’ll let you know right now Oliver, today was a special day and people like you won’t ruin it 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/o5Wv7zudd2
— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) August 5, 2020
His another tweet read, “I’ll let you know right now Oliver, today was a special day and people like you won’t ruin it 🙏🏾”
I’ll let you know right now Oliver, today was a special day and people like you won’t ruin it 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/o5Wv7zudd2
— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) August 5, 2020
While Oliver never expected such type of response, what made it more difficult for him was that Jofra Archer got the support of his teammate Ben Stokes who praised Jofra for exposing the troller.
Ben Stokes tweeted, “This @*@* Kudos to @JofraArcher for exposing him,quickly made everything private..keyboard warriors”.
This 🤬🤬… 👏 👏 @JofraArcher for exposing him,quickly made everything private..keyboard warriors 🤦♂️ https://t.co/Wuj6GtyyPO pic.twitter.com/xC5mlqBglA
— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) August 5, 2020
Targeting someone for skin color is certainly disgusting and people who promote such behavior should be punished. What do you say?
