‘Is it ever going to cease?’ – Luton City ship a unprecedented message to racist abusers: ‘Say it to his face’ in assist of Elijah Adebayo.

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— Luton City FC (@LutonTown) October 23, 2024

STATEMENT:

We’re indignant, upset and pissed off to report that racist abuse has been directed in direction of Elijah Adebayo.

Is it ever going to cease?

Twelve months in the past Elijah Adebayo was subjected to racist abuse on social media. A wave of vile and disgusting messages pouring into his account from faceless racists.

We revealed this story.

Quick ahead a 12 months later and it has occurred once more.

At 8.28pm BST on Wednesday night, an account within the UK on Instagram messaged Elijah with a racist remark.

After Elijah notified us following final evening’s recreation with Sunderland, through which he scored his first aim of the season, we reported the incident to the Police and to Meta. It’s now being investigated.

Identical to we mentioned a 12 months in the past, and identical to we are going to do WHENEVER a participant or workers member is subjected to abuse, we are going to stand by and assist Elijah unequivocally.

To the person who cowardly dropped into Elijah’s DMs: We all know who you might be and you recognize who you might be. You’re not a faceless account, one which we have now sadly grow to be accustomed to reporting lately.

However as in case you have the balls to come back to Kenilworth Highway and say it to his face. We dare you. In the event you do, you’ll be confronted with everybody at Luton City Soccer Membership, standing side-by-side with Elijah.

Abuse of any form is unacceptable. However does everybody know that? It’s why we’re doing our bit to coach everybody that racism and all types of abuse is abhorrent and unacceptable.

Final season, as a part of the Premier League’s No Room For Racism marketing campaign, we confirmed members of our workers the racist and abusive messages our gamers have been subjected to. That is actual life with actual life impacts.

Solely final week Jacob Brown and Mads Andersen visited Ferrars Junior Faculty in Luton to participate in an anti-discrimination workshop, placed on by the Luton City Group Belief as a part of the EFL’s Collectively Towards Racism marketing campaign. We revealed the video beneath on Wednesday.

We’re all Luton and we are going to proceed to assist and champion these initiatives till such time that the message will get by means of to the ignorant minority.

However the query stays: how for much longer will our gamers, our heroes – fellow human beings for crying out loud – be focused due to the color of their pores and skin?

There may be NO room for racism.

On the tenth of October, Luton wrote: “The previous week has seen the Membership take part within the Premier League’s No Room for Racism marketing campaign.

The gamers took the knee earlier than kick-off in opposition to Tottenham on Saturday.

On the Thursday earlier than the sport, Chiedozie Ogbene and Marvelous Nakamba visited Stopsley Group Major Faculty to talk to pupils who had been participating in a workshop placed on by the Luton City Group Belief as regards to racism. In the event you’ve not seen the video but, we extremely suggest it.

It is usually Black Historical past Month. Our Group Belief will ship a number of neighborhood actions and celebrations to mark it.

In direction of the top of October, the Group Belief will then convey collectively over 60 members from their Premier League Kicks classes to the North of Luton in Marsh Farm, to participate in a No Room for Racism neighborhood soccer match – an occasion which shall be hosted in collaboration with Luton Youth Partnership Service and the TREE challenge as we foster consciousness and solidarity.

These are all sensible initiatives that we’re proud to assist and can proceed to take action within the struggle in opposition to discrimination.

But.

Regardless of all this magnificent work to spotlight the range we have now in our city and in our altering room… it’s nonetheless taking place.

Racist abuse remains to be taking place.

It’s nonetheless taking place in 2023.

Sarcastically it’s taking place on a weekend designated to spotlight the marketing campaign.

On Monday, we reported and assisted with one more vile, cowardly act of on-line abuse from an account beneath an Instagram submit after Saturday’s recreation directed in direction of our striker Elijah Adebayo.

Simply because it was handled the quite a few occasions it has already occurred to a number of of our gamers prior to now 12 months, the submit has been reported by us to Instagram’s mum or dad firm, Meta, and the Premier League. Bedfordshire Police have additionally been made conscious of the feedback.

We’ve spoken to Elijah to supply him our assist.

However have you learnt what the unhappy factor is? He mentioned it’s occurred so many occasions now that he can’t be bothered to report or reply to discrimination anymore. He’s bored with it.

We at the moment are treating this as abuse in opposition to the Membership.

We’ve had sufficient of claiming sufficient is sufficient.

So we are going to proceed to struggle in opposition to this heinous, obnoxious, narrow-minded and bigoted behaviour.

We are going to, after all, at all times rise up for anybody at Luton City who suffers by the hands of such backward and completely deplorable attitudes.

We are going to proceed to do our bit. For everybody.

In the event you see any type of racist abuse, report it to us. Our electronic mail is [email protected]

You may also report something you see and likewise through the Kick It Out app, which may be downloaded from the App Retailer or Google Play.

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