Vinicius Jr. is not Martin Luther King, nor even Tommy Smith or John Carlos.

But a racist will still be a racist. Valencia fans making the monkey gesture or insulting a rival for the color of your skin is racism of the crudest and indisputable nature. The last stone in the credibility of their harassers consists of demanding that the insulted person be a certain exemplary person: that he not take days off, that he dedicate his entire life to the cause. The Brazilian was in charge of facing the stands almost by system.