Wright supports Bellingham: England are not ready for a black superstar

Ian Wright expressed support for Bellingham on The Overlap and said England were not ready to accept a black superstar.

Wright said: "When I worked for GQ magazine before, I said that as an Englishman, I can't avoid this identity. Even though people always said to me when I was young, 'You are not really English,' but I am English.

"I think they are not ready for a black superstar, a sharp-edged superstar like Bellingham. He goes out there and performs, does amazing things, and then asks the world, ‘Who else? ’, this flamboyant gesture makes some people sit on pins and needles.

"Using an example on the football field: Everyone likes Kanter. He is a humble black man who quietly does his job. It does not mean that he is an 'Uncle Tom' (note: the protagonist of the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a pious, kind, and obedient black slave That kind of image, that's just his nature. But when you meet Pogba or Bellingham and feel that aura, some people just don't like it.

"The reason why characters like Jude scare some people is because of his extraordinary strength and the spiritual charisma he can inspire.

"This is the survival rule that black people have been instilled in since childhood: bury your head to do your best, keep a low profile, or, to put it harshly, be a 'docile slave of XX'. And Jude is tearing apart this shackles. When a black man is both outspoken and at the same time showing the top level and having no scruples, it will scare some people.

"This is what Jude is experiencing. The person who targeted him had already fallen into obsession. He couldn't understand how a black man could make such great achievements as Jude but not want to be labeled as 'forgetful' and not be regarded as an 'arrogant nigger'. Let me be blunt, that’s what it comes down to. "