I can attest from personal experience that Dariela Sosa is spot on that this word does not have negative connotations in Latin America. About 20 years ago, I made the first of many visits to Brazil, spending several weeks with a friend and his family in Assis, a small agricultural city in eastern Sao Paulo state. One of the local people my friend introduced me to was his close friend Sabino, a Black man who to my surprise he referred to as "my little Negro". When I asked him about it, explaining that in the U.S. this would be seen as highly offensive, he told me that it was a common and normal term of endearment between good friends, pointing out that Sabino referred to him (in Portuguese, which I didn't speak) as "my little Mutt" (my friend is one of many Brazilians of mixed race, four different ethnic backgrounds). What I learned is that cultural norms vary greatly, and it's incumbent on all of us not to judge other people-cultures by our norms-values of appropriateness. As Ms. Sosa states " Applied without regard for social, cultural and linguistic context, antiracism efforts risk becoming a caricature of themselves, driving a wedge between people of different cultures rather than bringing them together.... The English Football Association, with its over-the-top sanction of Cavani, managed instead to show only mindless adherence to a brand of maximalist Anglo-American antiracism ideology that does little to combat racism itself". A reasonable response might have been to ask Cavini to explain the context of the world Negrito in his culture, or even to ask him to remove the post so as not to risk misunderstanding. To punish and fine him is beyond obscene and makes a mockery of efforts to combat the very real racism that sadly exists all over the world.