Sammy seeks clarity from SRH teammates over racist kalu nickname
Updated On: 10 June, 2020 12:00 AM IST | | PTI
The two-time T20 World Cup-winning captain, while commenting on the protests over African-American George Floyd-s death in the US, had spoken about being called -Kalu- while he was in India
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An old social media post by India pacer Ishant Sharma lent credence to former West Indies captain Darren Sammy-s allegation that a racist nickname was used to address him during his IPL stint with Sunrisers Hyderabad for which he is now demanding an apology. The two-time T20 World Cup-winning captain, while commenting on the protests over African-American George Floyd-s death in the US, had spoken about being called -Kalu- while he was in India. -Kalu- is a derogatory word to describe black people. Sammy said having understood the meaning only now, he feels disappointed with his teammates, who addressed him by that nickname during his 2013-2014 stint with SRH.
One of them could be Ishant, who had shared a group picture also featuring Sammy, on May 14, 2014, using -Kalu- to identify the West Indian in it. The same year, even Sammy called himself -Kalu- in a social media post to offer birthday wishes to VVS Laxman -- the SRH mentor at that time. "I was listening to Hasan Minhaj Indian-American comedian and actor talking about how some of the people in his culture view or describe black people," Sammy said in his latest Instagram post. "...I was angry after listening to him describing a word that they use to describe black people, which he was saying is not in a good way and it was degrading.
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