Claudio Palma: An Exclusive Interview and Career Retrospective on Survive Monday with Kike Morandé and Álvaro Salas

2023-11-07 17:43:22

In a new edition of survive mondaya program hosted by Kike Morandé and Álvaro Salas, the announcer Claudio Palma reviewed his career and told different anecdotes behind the microphone.

Along with remembering great storytellers and their many trips around the planet, the face of TNT Sports addressed some of the criticism he receives.

“Why do they call you black?” Salas asked Palma, in a matter-of-fact tone. “The truth is that he didn’t explain it to me,” the interviewee played along.

“But you know what? It has never bothered me. I think that today there is a very sensitive generation, huh…, because I remember being in the United States telling stories and there was a black man who occupied three seats and he wouldn’t stop me from watching the game, so at some point I said in the broadcast ‘ There’s a little brunette,’” he recalled.

“It was in some boxes, a friendly match, and I said ‘hey, dark-haired man’… and Twitter was already on fire, so I said to me they said ‘hey black’ (and nothing happened to me),” he added.

Finally, Claudio Palma clarified that “in our generation, black people were like ‘hey black’. “I remember the Dimayor players, the Americans, ‘the black one’… and it was not derogatory.”