Argentinian Fans Racial SIur Toward BIack Cop Ended In Handcuffs

[00:00:00]might be happy to hear about this story because let me be honest, Argentinian fans have been acting a fool for a while now. For many, many World Cups, they have been called out. They have been people try to um have a conversation with them, people try to reason with them, people try to get them banned. Nothing seems to to work. And for the most part, FIFA has also in a way um supporting their nonsense because if there's no consequence, how do you expect people to uh think twice about their action, right? Especially when it comes to racism. We have seen that some folks don't learn unless there's, you know, accountability.

[00:00:47]and uh you know some Argentinian fans found out the hard way that you don't mess with black cops.

[00:00:57]So this recent World Cup, the one that is going on, the one that um the finals are going to be on Sunday, I believe, right? It has been held in the US, right? Atlanta to be exact in the stadium and people have been complaining including famous popular um YouTubers or streamers. They have faced the wrath of Argentinian fans. But this time around they messed with a black cop and immediately regretted it. Immediately because guess what? It ended in them going straight to jail. Let me show you the clip of um the recent video from the US specifically between Argentinian fans and a cop.

[00:01:50]Let me just mute it because you know copyright music and all. Uh so apparently according to reports you see that black cop right there. Um, he faced insults from this Argentinian fans, uh, racial slurs. Of course, that's like their favorite thing, their goto, um, comment when it comes to black folks.

[00:02:16]But the cop said, "Yeah, not on my watch. I am not allowing you to disrespect me in my own country." And on top of that, I'm an authority, right?

[00:02:26]Like obviously this cop is um an authority and you have to listen to him at the end of the day, right? Um the the fans did not listen. They u apparently according to reports they insulted the black cops, racial slurs, the usual um we've covered some of the things that they say to um people. Forget about cops just generally. These are the kind of things that they do. These are the kind of things that uh are being reported.

[00:02:56]Like they they go straight to monkey noise, calling black people monkeys, um the n-word, racial slur. That's like their fave. Like that's their go-to um attack. And even the kids, you remember this kid? We talked about him um when his mother posted his video here. You're not listening. Like you can't hear it cuz I muted it. But the the kid, the young boy is calling uh calling a name uh called um uh Vinnie Jr. He's a black uh football player. And when he saw a monkey, he was saying, "Oh, that's Vinnie Jr." And then, you know, making their favorite sound. And so, um they're used to this. This is not their first time, by the way. For a lot of uh people that don't tune in for football, World Cup, not many people know this, but Argentinian fans are known to act like this. And their excuse whenever they're asked why they're doing this is like they say, um, it's banter. It's fun.

[00:03:57]We're just having fun, right? So, even though they target a specific group to say or do this ridiculous things, so they're used to it there. It's nothing new um for them. Um, and we've covered quite a number of them on this channel.

[00:04:14]But the recent one is that they didn't stop at making fun of other folks. They targeted or rather insulted a cop, a black cop, an Atlanta cop. um and they forgot where they were for a second because the cop reminded them um where they are and they should think twice.

[00:04:40]So, they were arrested. I I believe two of the fans ended up uh going to jail.

[00:04:45]And um I believe they've learned their lesson now cuz the cop was not playing around. He did not care if you know these folks are tourists, these folks are new to the country. It doesn't matter. You are being disrespectful. You break the law. You you break um you know you you're doing something illegal.

[00:05:07]There needs to be a consequence. And that's exactly what happened to them.

[00:05:11]But many people because of this World Cup are starting to realize what black people in Argentina um are going through. one example currently um recently this guy went viral. He is Afroargentinian and um he went viral for a good reason because folks were understanding the kind of uh treatment uh they face and you know the eraser is something that we've covered on this channel before. They quite literally tried to erase black people from their country from their census in the I believe in 177 something according to the census one black people consisted of onethird of the population onethird but now they claim now in 2026 they claim that they have no black folks even though they're breathing they're existing they're living they don't want to you know accept that there are black folks there and the way they erase them is in many ways the First one being during during the war, they promised the black people there, you will be free if you fight in this war with us. And when you know during war, of course. What did they do? They used them as um what is it called? Is it conam or like the one that you put in front and they're the first ones to uh you know go and that was the first the first thing that they did. The second thing was they have segregated back in the days they segregated black people and it's it they lived in communities where it's like on top of each other because of um how the system was set up and whenever you know that when the yellow fever uh pandemic came it just wiped a lot of black people and then eventually through the system the government what they did was um instead of now um like having a checklist of like I'm white, I'm black, I'm this. They completely removed the black um section, meaning they you can only be white, right? So, even through the census, they removed um or um systemically um removed black people from being considered like like as if they don't exist, right? Like they've erased them completely. So, there were many ways that they've used and also there's this indoctrination in Argentina. They believe that they're Europeans, right? they're white. And that has been pushed so much that the people started believing it, you know, generation to generation. Now, even if you ask them, are there black people in Argentina? They tell you, no, we don't have them here, which is insane because they are living, they are existing and we see these folks, right?

[00:07:58]Again, thanks to social media, we can even interact with these folks, but they completely refuse to accept them, even accept their existence. And that is uh some of the ways they were able to uh erase uh black people from existing in Argentina, even though there are Afroargentinian population. So, let me just uh play for you this this man's um you know conversation with a journalist uh and you can kind of understand how it is like how life is for black folks in Argentina. You I'm pretty sure you can see the subtitle. Um if you can't see it clearly, I will do the voice over, but you can read it right there.

[00:08:54]political social consequences. Mhm.

[00:09:32]Okay.

[00:09:39]>> Okay.

[00:09:40]>> Yeah. So, um, in case cuz I've realized the subtitle is very very small. Um, I can just read it out loud for you. Um, so this, um, this man is saying, um, for me being a black man in Argentina is a great responsibility.

[00:09:59]Um, yes. To fight for my rights, [snorts] for the rights of our nation, and to leave the path as open as possible to um and racism, to end racism, sorry. Um, is so she asked him, "Is this political issue for you?" And his answer is that yes, it's social, it's political, it's cultural, it's everything. It's a racist system.

[00:10:35]There's no area where there is no um influence and uh or consequences when a racist system exists.

[00:10:55]Um, so she asked him, "Do you think uh things have improved from your generation to now?" This this is the part I find really really interesting because he takes a really long deep breath and you can you can sense the sadness um in his voice and in his answer when he answers this. uh cuz she asked him are things exactly the same or do you see an improvement? Is there any change between like your generation when you were growing up versus now?

[00:11:31]He takes a long pause. You see that pose?

[00:11:38]So he says what is improved is visibility. So, because of, as I said earlier, social media changed things.

[00:11:46]They're more visible. People now can't downright erase them and lie on them and say they don't exist.

[00:11:56]So, before he he continues and he says, "Before they said there weren't any of us, that we didn't exist." Like, imagine how cruel you have to be to completely erase the existence of a whole race.

[00:12:10]It's just so sad.

[00:12:12]So he's saying now they know we're here but there's still a lot a lot ahead. So that was um his response and it's very telling um it's very telling on how he responded. It's very telling how, you know, he's he believes his whole existence um he's in that position for a reason and he wants to fight for the next generation and he wants to clear the path and he wants to fight for his kids and his great grandkids because as far as the rest of the Argentinians are concerned, they don't exist. And if something doesn't exist, you don't have to give them voice. You don't have to care about their experience, their lived experience, what they go through, their votes, they're they don't need representation cuz guess what? They don't exist. Like it's one of the crulest things um a government can do. Like they don't even exist, right?

[00:13:13]They're not even fighting about minority right because they don't even want to acknowledge them or accept that they exist. And this is not the only man. Um I wait, let me This guy's an I believe he's an activist if I'm not wrong.

[00:13:30]>> I am proud of being an Argentinian, but it's really hard for me because I'm I always have to explain why I'm black.

[00:13:38]>> Argentina has built its identity on whiteness. But Afro Argentines are pushing to restore the country's black history that the government has largely suppressed.

[00:13:48]>> There was a discourse of genocide because governments say that [clears throat] we don't exist. schools erase us from history. So Argentina is said to be white, [clears throat] to be culturally, and to look white, phenotypically white. So that's why it was discursive because we we are still here.

[00:14:15]>> In the 18th century, large populations of Afro descendants were present in Argentina. In fact, hundreds of thousands of enslaved African people were forcibly taken there long before the biggest waves of European migration in the country. But many of them say the country has built a national identity rooted in whiteness, making it hard to identify as a person of color.

[00:14:39]>> People think that we don't exist.

[00:14:42]Argentine people ask us where uh we were born. Not only in Argentina, if I go to Brazil, if I go to Uruguay, if I go to the US, people don't believe my nationality. They don't believe I'm an Argentinian. [clears throat] It's horrible because uh I don't feel I or people don't make me feel as I am part of the country.

[00:15:04]>> In 1778, black people made up about 37% of Buenos's Iris. But by 1887, city records showed black people making up less than 2% of the city's population.

[00:15:16]Now, that's not because they left or disappeared, but because the government stopped including race in its collection of census data. Race wasn't even included as a census category again until 2010. Many Afro descendants were reclassified or absorbed into mixed categories. Alli says these racial categories blurred black identity over time.

[00:15:41]>> There was a an a really important racial category that's called frieno. That means from the from the color of the wheat that helped black people to find a window to escape blackness because why would you choose [clears throat] to be black in a country that oppresses you for being black?

[00:16:07]Yeah, very dark. Like, think about it, fam. From 37% Argentina had 37% black population to less than 2% in in just a few years, what did the government do? Right.

[00:16:26]Earlier we touched on how they were used um you know in the war to go in the front lines be the first ones to die um during any kind of um disease or any kind of let's say a pandemic comes black folks are the first to go and systemically they've also erased them by removing them from the census. So that's why I I believe there was a name someone write it in the comment section um for me please the whitening they called it the whitening of the country. So basically they will not accept or uh put on a piece of paper any legal document that there's a black person there. So everyone is either going to be like seen as mixed or white.

[00:17:15]Hence you know the black population started dwindling down and it was encouraged as well. Um, black women were encouraged to co-create or what is it called? To to have a baby, right? To mix with uh, white men so they can whiten their um, their kids, their the next generation because don't forget during the war a lot of black men lost their lives. 37% they went from 37% to 2%. Like you can only imagine what kind of drastic measure they had to take for them to whiten their their country.

[00:17:53]So black women were left their men went out and they never returned the disease.

[00:17:59]The first people like it will target is not not necessarily the disease will target them but because of the condition of uh or or the way of life they had to lead. they were crumbmed up in small small areas um because you know these are black folks and they need to be segregated. So whenever any kind of disease comes they're the first ones to go. On top of that removing them from uh the legal system uh from the census it's just a deliberate deliberate um um um move to remove black people. And now sadly in 2026 they completely refuse. Even the little amount of black folks that were left in Argentina, they don't want to claim them. They act like they are not from their country and they mistreat them.

[00:18:50]And to think about how they're treated.

[00:18:54]Now look at in the world stage on the world stage how they are acting towards um other folks. Now imagine if you're Argentina.

[00:19:03]>> What are you saying? Imagine if you're that's show speed. I'm just playing it for you just to remind you what they were saying and doing to show speed.

[00:19:11]This is a prominent streamer, right?

[00:19:13]Like now imagine if you're just an average Afroargentinian existing uh first of all they are rejecting your existence but second of all they will call you names um like um their favorite thing act like um a monkey or um you know voice change their voice it's just um it's it's unfortunate but I'm so happy that the they are getting exposed in the world stage um in the World Cup cuz guess how many people I I believe over 1 billion people watch the World Cup and um that's a lot that's a lot of people um learning um about Argentina Argentina and how they treat um different races of people uh to the point where I mean we might have been slow to um to catch on to it but uh a lot of countries Latin America Americans have been saying this like they don't see them um as fellow you know they they they don't believe in supporting them in fact if Argentina is playing any country it doesn't matter which country uh countries like Brazil will support that other country because of how they act and how they are towards um their people. So now during this World Cup and the previous World Cup, millions and millions of people have realized how they act uh superior, how they treat others, and more importantly, how they treat their own Afroar Argentinian uh people. And um it's just wrong. It's just wrong. Let's just say folks are happy to see the cop, the American cop dealing with um those fans that decided to call him out his name and now they're in jail. Um also there there should be a ban although FIFA is very lenient towards Argentina. I do not understand. Please, football fans, let us know what's the deal with uh FIFA and wanting Argentina to win, wanting um Argentinian teams to be the ones to um you know be on top. What is it? What is what? It's so confusing how much uh FIFA is being lenient and really um supporting in a way this nonsense because if it was any other team, they're quick to act, right? They're quick even during games whenever they do um what is it called like that foul when they hurt another teammate when they um commit I don't know the terms you let me know in the chats what the terms are whenever they step on a football player or push or they are given um like a like almost like a blind eye no one is going to bother them they're going to go through the next game which is ridiculous so FIFA is really really really showing its true colors. It's always been um there's a conspiracy that they're corrupt. They they don't uh follow through like the rules don't apply for everyone, for every team, for every country. Uh they're very very selective on who they support, who they hold accountable. So to see in this world stage where over 1 billion people watch the games and like the main guy uh of the FIFA is celebrating uh when Argentina is winning. It's uh it's sending the wrong message honestly. It's really sending the wrong message. Even with I when it comes to I show speed and when he was insulted on live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live live everyone we all watched it what was being said they said they will be investigating these fans if they're found guilty uh the fine is about like 6 million if I'm not wrong and then a lifetime ban you can never enter or get a ticket ever again to another world cup we haven't heard anything thus far like we haven't heard a conclusion of what's happening the fans are are still continuing to be disrespectful and racist.

[00:23:38]It's um it's something needs to be done and um we're glad we're we'll we're glad that the world knows and sees their face and we can talk about them and um and call it out. But when they go back to their home countries, nothing will happen because guess what?

[00:23:56]They are desensitized. They they have learned that racism is is nothing is it's some it's it's it's a banter.

[00:24:04]That's what they call it. It's a banter.

[00:24:06]It's it's fun funny to them. Uh but at the very least maybe like the world seeing them for how they are treating their own people can maybe change some laws. Some lawmaker the lawmakers can think twice. Um can include black Afroargentinians.

[00:24:27]um you know um voice to their policies.

[00:24:32]They can actually be be considered as human beings as opposed to being mistreated acting like they don't exist.

[00:24:40]Like I I thought you know discrimination against a race is one of the worst things you can do to um uh to to people or to minorities. But it turns out there's even worse things you can do to them as you know eradicating as erasing their whole entire existent and telling them that they don't exist. I guess that's like the crulest thing you can do, right? So yeah, um it's um it's it's very very very very uh sad to to to watch and to witness uh people begging to be seen and asking their white counterparts like we do exist though.

[00:25:21]You can't tell me that I don't exist. I am here. I'm flesh and blood. My kids are here. We are alive. We're human beings just like you. and they're told, "Nah, no, you're not." Actually, no. In fact, there's no, you know, we don't have Afroargentinian um population in our country. Yeah. Just the number on its own, I think, speaks volumes from 37% in a few years to 2%. What did you do with the black folks? It like outside of the historic, you know, what the documentation shows what they've did, what they have done. um obviously but the the change is too drastic for me to believe it's just that that that's the only thing that was done you know what I mean so yeah it is sad Brian said quote we are here I know right that's what the the man said we are here uh that's what they that's all they want to be act to to to for the country to say yes you do exist and you are here that's what they're fighting for literally fighting for um them to accept that they exist in this world in that country.

[00:26:38]Unfortunately, that's not the case. But shame on the government. Seriously, like you um you just have to you just have to, you know, give them their flowers for even attempting to speak up and to to speak to the world and say we are here and we we need to be seen. We need to be heard. We need to be accepted cuz that's the right thing to do. Um, I just I remembered I wanted to show you a clip here >> game. I just want >> I was telling you earlier the Latin world do not like Argentinians. And I found one video of a girl talking about >> Before I talk about this game, I just want to say if you are in Atlanta right now, please be safe because these Argentinian fans need to get the [ __ ] out of our city with all of this chaos that they are causing. We've already had multiple arrests. They've been jumping all their [ __ ] fans. It's so strange.

[00:27:42]Get them the [ __ ] out of my city. Now, let's talk about this game. Of course.

[00:27:46]>> Yeah. So, that is the whole entire sentiment. If you see um other fans talking about Argentinian fans and Argentina in general, this is the kind of uh energy that they give. And I have witnessed so many fans because of Messi.

[00:28:05]Messi is such a big deal. He's a player um an Argentinian player and he's one of the the biggest you know um football stars next to Cristiano Ronaldo.

[00:28:17]The debate the debate is crazy between those two. So >> people like his or love or admire or look up to his skill set. So by default when Argentina is playing and he's in that team they support Argentina. But now I'm seeing a lot of black folks taking that back and saying we're not supporting these folks. And I mean that's why knowledge is key. The more you know, the more you know, the more you learn, the more you start to realize not, you know, you can't support everything and everyone in this world.

[00:28:50]You really have to educate yourself in uh because at the end of the day, you might be supporting something that's detrimental to you and your your family and your whole existence. So, yep. That's what happened in the US.

[00:29:04]What are your thoughts? What do you think? Did you think or do you think the black cop uh did the right thing? Uh did the right thing? Uh do you think his response was swift enough? Do you think he, you know, threw punchs a bit too much? Uh or do you think as a cop he shouldn't have, you know, shouldn't have gotten physical and he should have just arrested him? I mean, people are debating, but for the most part, I saw a lot of celebration going around because what do you mean you're a tourist from Argentina in my country, specifically in Atlanta, where there's a lot of black folks and you decide to throw a racial slur at a black cop. It's the audacity.

[00:29:48]I mean, you understand what the mentality is. They get away with it in their own country, so they think they can continue to do it everywhere else they go. And it's it's it's clear to see and they keep doing it because nothing happens to them. Well, I guess maybe now maybe now they will think twice because of this cop. Um yeah, let us know down below what your thoughts are about these uh anti-lack folks that even refuse to accept their own Afroargentinian communities. Let us know down below. Um, I will see you.

[00:30:27]Hey, Lauren said messy is the perfect name for these people. Well, that's that's uh [laughter] Messi is very messy. That's funny. Yeah.

[00:30:37]Anyways, fam, let us know down below what your thoughts are about this. I am Zalam. I'll see you on the next one.

[00:30:43]Stay blessed. Bye.