Shrewsbury Town football club under fire over diversity handbook containing racist slurs

A League One football club has come under fire after its charitable body published a diversity handbook for staff containing multiple racist slurs, The Independent can reveal.

Shrewsbury Town FC Foundation circulated the document geared towards enhancing staff members’ knowledge of equality, which referred to Black, Asian and indigenous Aboriginal people using offensive terms.

Under a section entitled ‘The Four Major Races of the World Population’, the guide refers to “white/caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/black and Australoid” groups, but the guide was pulled after The Independent raised concerns.

Though lacking an explanation within the guide, the last slur, Australoid, is an outdated word that’s used to describe Aboriginal people in Australia. It is widely accepted that the other terms are racially offensive.

“We are deeply sorry for any offence caused by the document,” a Shrewsbury Town FC Foundation spokesperson said.

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