For Ashleigh Ainsley, 28-year-old founder of Black TechFest, being a Black football fan is knowing that going to a game could result in racist altercations. However, she got invested in this particular England team, she says, because of who they are and what they represent. By the time penalties came around, Ainsley says he immediately sensed what would follow if the Black players didn’t score. “I anticipated the racist vitriol they’d receive the moment they stepped off the pitch and I knew that Black fans would receive backlash for the loss,” she says. No wonder some of us identify as being Black in Britain, rather than being Black British.

Source: Huffington Post July 17, 2021 03:56 UTC