No but some words have racial connotations, so for example if you called an arab a sand nigger it's racist. When you call a black man a dirty monkey it's racist.
Now i don't know if Van Damme is a racist or he just said that word to get to Onyewu. But you cannot argue that it's not a racist thing to say.
Now i don't know if Van Damme is a racist or he just said that word to get to Onyewu. But you cannot argue that it's not a racist thing to say.
And in all fairness I don't think racism is about insults anyway. It's about promoting some people over others merely because of skin colour. Getting fired or not getting a job because you're black, that's racism. If someone calls you a monkey on a football field, you get over it and move on. Players insult each other all the time, so it's a really thin line here.
