Sometimes you have to laugh to keep yourself from crying. Am I right or am I right? I mean, I could burst into tears over the way that FC Barcelona defender Dani Alves has been treated. Tears! Midway through a game on Sunday as Alves prepared for a corner kick, someone in the stands threw Alves a banana! A banana was hurled at him as a racist insult. You see, apparently Alves is not fair enough for some and he's been called a monkey in the past. Okay, this is the kind of thing that makes me want to burst into tears and call whoever threw that banana a racist piece of caca, but then the way that Alves dealt with the incident makes me laugh and chomp on a banana.
You are going to love his response and the support he got from others.
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What did Alves do when the banana was hurled at him? See for yourself.
He picked it up, ate it and went about the business of winning a soccer match. Later he said, "We have suffered this in Spain for some time. You have to take it with a dose of humor. We aren't going to change things easily." That is a classy response to some horrid behavior. Well played Alves, well played.
And what about his fans and supporters? Well, they responded with solidarity and humor using the hashtags #SomosTodosMacacos and #WeAreAllMonkeys on social media!
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