Holding: people must ‘call out’ and ‘embarrass’ racists

West Indies great Michael Holding says people must “call out” and “embarrass” racists if equality is to be achieved.

Earlier this year, Holding released a book about racial discrimination and revealed he suffered “barbaric” abuse as a player in England.

The 67-year-old was widely praised last year after speaking eloquently on the topic following George Floyd’s murder.
Now he has called on people to be  “anti-racist”, saying: “You need good people to stop being silent.”

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s All About programme, Holding said: “It is no longer good enough to say ‘I am fine, I am not racist’.

“You have now got to be anti-racist. You have got to call out the racists and you have got to embarrass the racists.

“Don’t just be silent and say to yourself ‘I am not like him or her’. You have got to be anti.” — BBC Sport