Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla makes racist remark against Kylian Mbappe

[True Believer]

After France's 1–0 victory over Paraguay in the Round of 16 at the World Cup, Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla launched a racist tirade against French captain Kylian Mbappe on social media. Mbappe was described as a "colonised Cameroonian desperately trying to pass himself off as French." Described him as a "brute" who "had not learned to write," as well as "arrogant and ugly. She went on to state that the Paraguayan players: "should have slapped him" after the game.

 

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[laksaboy]

A naturalised nigger who knows how to kick ball makes a lot of money. Not just from wages as a footballer, but from commercial deals too.

 

[True Believer]

A naturalised nigger who knows how to kick ball makes a lot of money. Not just from wages as a footballer, but from commercial deals too.

A naturalised player is someone who represents a country on the national team despite not having been born there or having ancestral roots like parents or grandparents that would automatically qualify them for citizenship. Kylian Mbappe was born in Paris, France which makes him French.

 

[True Believer]

Kylian Mbappe was born in Paris and raised in Bondy, a working-class commune in the suburbs of Paris, where he also began his football career at the local club AS Bondy. Since he was born and raised entirely in France, he is a French citizen by birth, making the Paraguayan senator's claim that he is "naturalised" untrue. His parents are immigrants to France; his father, Wilfried Mbappe, is originally from Cameroon, and his mother Fayza Lamari, is of Algerian descent.