My thought was that he appears to have received a lot of hateful abuse that I would feel a 10 year old would not be well-equipped to deal with.
Ah, I see what you mean. Well, I imagine his parents - assuming they knew and approved of him having it and monitored his usage - reasonably thought that as long as he doesn't 'start' anything on Twitter, he won't receive any abuse from total strangers (which is naive anyway, but understandable). As most people here seem to agree, only the most militant Trolls would see anything racist in what he did and I daresay it never occured to his parents it would get that reaction.
No idea who the player is but for the kid to go to the effort to look like the player must maen he looks up to the player and would like to be like him... i.e. has no problem in looking 'black'.
There seems to be this knee-jerk reaction that any mention of colour by a white person or 'blacking up' is racist rather than actually thinking and putting the action into context.
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No. Its just a few trolls on twitter acting like arseholes.
Nothing to do with peecee goooorn mad.
Yes for the film True Identity, a steaming pile of mutts excrement.
That is worrying, the rest of the story is rubbish.
There seems to be this knee-jerk reaction that any mention of colour by a white person or 'blacking up' is racist rather than actually thinking and putting the action into context.