Brazilian MMA Fighter Pulls Racist Slant Eyes, Does ‘Asian’ Accent on Instagram

Brazilian MMA Fighter Pulls Racist Slant Eyes, Does ‘Asian’ Accent on InstagramBrazilian MMA Fighter Pulls Racist Slant Eyes, Does ‘Asian’ Accent on Instagram
A video showing Brazilian mixed martial artist and jiu-jitsu practitioner Renzo Gracie slanting his eyes surfaced on social media. Gracie, 52, posted a 24-second Instagram Story featuring himself and a young member of his family making slant-eye poses while imitating an Asian accent.
The Story has since been taken down, but you can watch it below:
 
Gracie is the grandson of Brazilian jiu-jitsu founder Carlos Gracie, whose father Gastão Gracie became friends with Japanese champion Mitsuyo Maeda, who came to Brazil as a diplomat but ended up teaching Carlos and Gracie’s granduncle, Helio Gracie, according to Notes on the Road.
Gracie is still active in the Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA community. After eight years away from the MMA scene, he returned to defeat Japanese mixed martial artist Yuki Kondo during the “one Championship — Reign of Kings” in July 2018.
 
Gracie also has Brazilian jiu-jitsu affiliate academies in the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, Peru, Canada, Mexico and Israel. The first rule in academy etiquette: “Students must always show respect to their peers and instructors. Please treat everyone with courtesy.” Gracie has yet release a statement to the Instagram Story.
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