Antonio Rudiger, 24, plays soccer for Italy’s A.S. Roma. The Roma defender had to play as fans chanted racist obscenities at him during their game against Lazio. It got so bad the announcer had to threaten to stop the game if the racist chants continued.

Rudiger is African. He was born in Berlin to a German father and a mother from Sierra Leone.

During a completely different game Roma soccer players stood on the field to take pictures with children.

Each player had a child dressed in a soccer uniform standing in front of them for the picture.

Every player except Rudiger because the child assigned to him refused to stand near him because the child said Rudiger looked like a monkey.

The ignorance that plagues the world (because I can’t say this country, racism is everywhere) is truly sad.

It’s important for us to start teaching our children to love and appreciate their blackness.