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Ghana’s captain Andre Ayew is hopeful that the fight against racism will yield the desired results of achieving equality between all races, but believes it will take time.
The Swansea City vice captain revealed his experience of racism during his time in Marseille, when the team traveled to Russia for a Europa League match.
In recent times, calls for equality have sparked a massive outcry with the Black Lives Matter movement that is spearheading the quest for racial equality and justice.
“I think the movement can achieve what we all want: equality, that’s it,” Ayew told Skysports.com.
“We’ve been through this for so long that we feel like enough is enough. May everything be okay for everyone, let’s let it be the same for everyone.
“It’s going to be difficult, but if we all continue to believe and feel that everything we are doing is right and for the right cause, I think we will succeed.”
“Everything goes with a process. Start every day, go higher and higher, and I feel like people are getting what we mean.
“When I feel like it’s not just blacks standing up and talking about it, even whites, then you know you’re starting to get somewhere.
“It’s going to be very difficult, but we have to keep believing in what we are doing and achieve the equality we want to achieve, that’s the main thing.”
“At the end of the day, this generation may not have that equality, but the next generation will get it if we keep doing what we’re doing.”
The 30-year-old striker, whose father – Abedi Pele – one of the pioneers of African footballers to reach Europe and excel in the 80s and 90s, revealed that the lifelong problem would need strong authority to end.
“If you look back to the years before my father’s time, it was even worse than now. These players like my father paved the way for everyone to come and show that blacks can do the job in Europe,” Ayew said.
“I remember playing in Russia in the Europa League against (Zenit) St. Petersburg, and they threw bananas all over me.
“People have been through worse, I’m talking from personal experience, but I’ve seen friends going through things and I feel like it shouldn’t be.
“We need to make sure we hit the ground and make sure it changes. Nothing is easy, but we have to keep going and not give up on what we believe in. I think that can take the world to another level.”
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