Mushfiqur raised voice against racism
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh wicket-keeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim joins the chorus and raised voice against racism on Sunday.
In a tweet Mushfiqur came up with his mind and expressed solidarity with all the men who are raising voice against it.
‘’I hate racism. Say no to racism,’’ Mushfiqur Rahim stated in the tweet.
Former West Indies captain Daren Sammy and senior batsman Chris Gayle have become the first active cricketers to join a growing number of sports personalities worldwide in publicly raising their voice against the scourge of racism following the custodial killing of George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis.
Sammy, in a series of tweets on Monday, urged both the ICC and cricket boards to stand up against the "injustice" of racism against "people of color", an issue that his former team-mate Gayle said was prevalent in cricket.
On Tuesday, former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara also put out a thread of eight tweets on the issue, saying that the events in the USA were a "powerful lesson to us all".
Floyd, 46, a black man, died in Minneapolis on May 25 - a death now officially classified as a homicide after a white police officer had held him down with his knee on his neck for over eight minutes while he was handcuffed. The incident, captured on video, has sparked widespread, angry protests across the USA.
Several sportspersons have spoken out since then, with basketball great LeBron James putting out a social media post referencing Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback who famously kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice. On Monday, English Premier League football side Liverpool also "took a knee" while prominent players in the German Bundesliga wore t-shirts in solidarity with the protests.
