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Alex Milne

Ian Wright shares more vile racist abuse as Arsenal legend calls for social media action

Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright has shared pictures of a series of disgusting racist messages he received on Instagram and has demanded social media sites take action.

The BBC and ITV pundit has been the victim of similar attacks in the past, and a teenage boy handed himself in to police after Wright shared racist messages he had been sent last month.

On Friday morning the 56-year-old took to Twitter to attach a series of vile racist slurs he had been sent via direct message on Instagram.

Along with the screen grabs, he posted: "These aren't isolated incidents!!! It's daily!! This is what I received for posting and talking about #BlackLivesMatter yesterday. The abuse started a week earlier, the taunting is terrifying. Coming back and back again."

He then retweeted a comment from another user who said: "I'm sick and tired of Twitter and other social media platforms not taking enough responsibility for the hatred and racism that people have to deal with on a daily basis!"

Wright has spoken out for some time about the need for the likes of Twitter and Instagram to step up and do more to deal with the issue of racism on their sites.

Speaking to No Signal radio station last month, he said: "There has to be some form of consequence.

"I've got a platform where I can reach people. This is happening to people on a daily basis where they can't do what I did - that's why I had to call this guy out.

"We're dealing with people that need to hide. Platforms like Instagram and Twitter are where they can hide but, what they haven't understood and what that guy will have realised today is, it's not my platform - it's everybody who has come in on him. Something has to be done."

The abuse comes during a week in which Premier League clubs have supported the Black Lives Matters movement by taking a knee before games and displaying the slogan on matchday shirts.

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