Somali referee Omar Artan was about to realise a dream of officiating at the World Cup, until he was denied entry to the United States.
It can take officials around 20 years from first blowing a whistle to being selected for international matches. You can become a brain surgeon in less time.
History suggests he might not get the chance again. and the refereeing community has nothing but sympathy for his situation.
📝 @Refsplaining
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@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork if you think america doesnt represent you, theres no reason you should be offended by me calling out dangerous american cold war normalization lol. which is where this all stemmed from
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork lowkey i have too many exams to keep going back and forth but i dont understand HOW you interjected in a conversation SPECIFICALLY about american rhetoric and messaging and took it as some personal dig at black americans and went on this tangent of proving im the guilty party.
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork which makes sense because the African diaspora in India barely exists? theres no long term settlement of Africans in India, its mostly short term work and study arrangements. not much to study or evaluate from limited interaction
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork https://t.co/3UXwZRpOt2
https://t.co/qLe9fS8VHQ
theres releases like this and some quantitative research trying to determine the effects of attempting to integrate, but nothing actually studying rent payment breakdowns, differences in neighbourhood surveillance, etc.
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork localized conscription that was still a result of collaboration with a foreign power? i thought we were discussing whether they were aides to colonialism or not?
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork "what right do you have" i dont need any right, youre proving me right with every statement you make
>bioweapon etc etc
you are calling me this while defending white america's geopolitical decisions through some weird lens of inapplicable ethnonarcissism
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork The “AASI” stands for “Ancient Ancestral South Indian”. It’s a genetic component found in all South Asian admixture, alongside Zagrosian Neolithic Farmer and Steppe pastoralist admixture. I’m 45% AASI, 40% Zagros, and 5% steppe, on the higher range of AASI.
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork By this metric, half of Africa are colonialists themselves for collaborating with the English and French against rival dominions. See how dumb that sounds?
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork If you look carefully, it says “British Raj”. Not “Republic of India”. This means they were Indian servicemen in the British military arm, not an independent volunteer army. Britain used local colonial branches as army fodder, this isn’t exactly a gotcha
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork https://t.co/tLXksTSQKC
It stemmed from you replying to this and calling it whataboutism, then getting your feelings hurt and trying to find some avenue to say “ur bad too 😿” because you identify with America and think the country cares about you lol. I’ll reply to it in a sec
@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@d_duin124@NBA_NewYork Lmfao like fucking AMERICA, AMERICA cares about minority and human rights. There is a paramilitary killing and incarcerating Latin Americans across the country, and you have spent the better part of almost 2 centuries bombing half the fucking planet, using bioweapons
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork None of it is comparable to the ethnic cleansing of Indians in Africa, but you won’t see me using it as proof that Africans all hate Indians and want to kill us all. Because I’m not a blithering troglodyte and live in real life 👍🏾
@d_duin124@aiidancash@9i9a_chad@NBA_NewYork https://t.co/OhU2K428nx
Go ahead and read the article about foreign relations. You’ll find about 7-8 cases of notable violence including the 2 already shown, along with government initiatives to curb it.