Mark McKenzie, who played Sunday for the U.S. men’s national team in its win over Mexico, said on social media Tuesday that he suffered racial abuse during and after that contest, which took place in Denver.
“We as a people MUST do better,” McKenzie wrote in a note he posted on Twitter, “and the organizations and corporations with the power to hand out repercussions NEED to step up and be held accountable as well.”
McKenzie on Monday shared a racist comment sent to him via Instagram. “The amount of racial abuse and personal attacks on myself and family from ‘supporters’ and ‘non supporters’ just ain’t it,” he wrote then.