Lukaku Tasks Social Media Companies To Do More In Racism Fight
Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku has tasked social media companies to do more in the fight against racism.
Lukaku’s Chelsea teammate Marcos Alonso earlier this week announced that he will stop taking the knee and will instead point to the ‘No To Racism’ badge on his shirt sleeve before matches.
Like Alonso, Lukaku has opined that taking the knee gesture is gradually losing its relevance.
Premier League players have been taking the knee before games in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement since June 2020.
Earlier this year Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha became the first Premier League player to quit taking the knee before games as he questioned its impact in the fight against racism.
Lukaku suffered racial abuse on more than one occasion while playing for Inter Milan in Italy.
"I think we can take stronger positions, basically. Yes, we are taking the knee, but in the end, everybody’s clapping but, sometimes after the game, you see another insult,” Lukaku told CNN.
"The captains of every team, and four or five players, like the big personalities of every team, should have a meeting with the CEOs of Instagram and governments and the FA and the PFA, and we should just sit around the table and have a big meeting about it," Lukaku added.
"I have to fight, because I'm not fighting only for myself. I'm fighting for my son, for my future kids, for my brother, for all of the other players and their kids, you know, for everybody.
"At the end of the day, football should be an enjoyable game. You cannot kill the game by discrimination. That should never happen."
