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The former footballer says he was bullied for having ‘darkish’ skin. But racism is so insidious that it doesn’t need to hit the ‘right’ targetMost people who look at Match of the Day host Gary Lineker would have no difficulty recognising that the man is white – and so it’s little surprise that he was mocked after revealing in a podcast interview that he suffered “racist abuse” due to his “darkish skin” throughout childhood and at moments in his professional footballing career.While he immediately qualified his comments with the assertion that he was “as English as they come” (by which he presumably meant white), many social media users, and some pundits, ridiculed him for supposedly “identifying as black”.Jason Okundaye is a London-based writer and researcher Continue reading...