'Not ready for a black superstar' - Wright's passionate defence of Bellingham - video Dailymotion

Ian Wright believes England's Jude Bellingham 'frightens' critics who aren't ready for a 'black superstar'.

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00:00I don't think they're ready for a black superstar like that who can move like Jude's moving

00:05you know they can't touch him like I just said he goes out there he performs he does what he does

00:10he says who else it's too uppity for these people everybody they love N'Golo Kante he's a humble

00:17black man gets on with what he's doing I'm not saying that he's an uncle tom or anything just

00:20saying that's how his personality is but if you get a Pogba or a Bellingham and you get that kind

00:26of energy that does not sit well with the with this with the people that kind of person so someone

00:32like Jude for some reason frightens these people because of his capability and the inspiration he

00:38can give it's something that you're taught when you're as a black man when you're going out there

00:43you just want to try and do the best you can and keep your head down and be what for want of a bit

00:47a humble slave this is where this is come this is dragging up from that kind of energy because if

00:53you are outspoken black and doing that kind of playing to that kind of level and not caring

01:00that frightens certain people and that's what's that's what's gonna happen with you this this guy

01:04who I'm telling you about in respects of um the the he's obsessed with him he's moving off of that

01:11energy he can't look and see a black man doing what Jude's doing and and think that that's not uppity

01:15they cannot get to this guy and this is somebody who is very much an achiever he goes out he's a winner

01:21he wants to do it he wins what they said about Jude not celebrating that it was complete

01:25fabrication lie and i'm worried for Jude simply because he's somebody that they can't control

01:30you can't control him obviously coming off of the who else and what he's done in the world cup

01:35he's showing people that you know i'm here i'm black i'm proud i'm ready to go

01:39all that vibe is something that a certain man can't deal with