I'll state first of all that I hate racism and haven't got a racist thought in my head, and that I fought off racists who picked on my black mate Steve on the Tube after a match at Fulham, losing a tooth, which Steve and I joked about for years (although he himself lost one as well)!
But I've said on here before that most black people feel patronised by white PC people "sticking up for them" on pathetic namecalling.
[BaggieSteve, are you an Englishman in Scotland? How do you feel when Jocks (can I use that word?) call you a Sassenach, or an English b**tard??] I've been called whatever it was that the Arabs called us when I worked in Saudi, - and I couldn't have yawned as hard if I acted it! It didn't matter one jot to me. Everyone takes the mickey out of Micks - not for their red hair, but because they tell Irish jokes THEMSELVES about how they're not "a full shilling". THAT's worse.]
I was very confused when I read that in today's paper (fake news?):
"A PAIR of female thugs grabbed a Spanish-speaking woman by the hair and subjected her to a torrent of racist abuse on a late-night tube train. The vile pair are being hunted after screaming that the 24-year-old should speak English in England after overhearing her chat to pals." The "female thugs" were black!!!
Can whoever they are who think it's them who decide what is/isn't racist try and understand that throwaway insults are part and parcel of life, and getting called names actually makes you stronger. Like a lot of things that happen on a football pitch the Officials are there to decide what is particularly offensive enough to provoke retaliation. Kicking, and anything physical, is worthy of cards, but calling a grown man names is laughable. Thus, if the Officials don't hear the intent of such words (and are all refs multi-lingual?) they can do nothing. If Bong had said "He just kicked my leg, and there's the blood to prove it" the ref could equally do nothing, although the physical injury is obviously worse.
But I've said on here before that most black people feel patronised by white PC people "sticking up for them" on pathetic namecalling.
[BaggieSteve, are you an Englishman in Scotland? How do you feel when Jocks (can I use that word?) call you a Sassenach, or an English b**tard??] I've been called whatever it was that the Arabs called us when I worked in Saudi, - and I couldn't have yawned as hard if I acted it! It didn't matter one jot to me. Everyone takes the mickey out of Micks - not for their red hair, but because they tell Irish jokes THEMSELVES about how they're not "a full shilling". THAT's worse.]
I was very confused when I read that in today's paper (fake news?):
"A PAIR of female thugs grabbed a Spanish-speaking woman by the hair and subjected her to a torrent of racist abuse on a late-night tube train. The vile pair are being hunted after screaming that the 24-year-old should speak English in England after overhearing her chat to pals." The "female thugs" were black!!!
Can whoever they are who think it's them who decide what is/isn't racist try and understand that throwaway insults are part and parcel of life, and getting called names actually makes you stronger. Like a lot of things that happen on a football pitch the Officials are there to decide what is particularly offensive enough to provoke retaliation. Kicking, and anything physical, is worthy of cards, but calling a grown man names is laughable. Thus, if the Officials don't hear the intent of such words (and are all refs multi-lingual?) they can do nothing. If Bong had said "He just kicked my leg, and there's the blood to prove it" the ref could equally do nothing, although the physical injury is obviously worse.
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with