[Devongone]

Yes it sounds as though Yorkshire got just about everything wrong at every turn, probably out of plain stupidity, or unconscious racism. Unfortunately we have turned the origin of people who are not what we identify as "us" into derogatory terms we then use as slurs, when having a heritage which traces family members back to Pakistan should be something of which those people can always feel really proud, even when they've got a broad Yorkshire accent. We should be celebrating our different identities, cultural backgrounds, artistic achievements, ways of being on this strange little choking planet, but instead we spend our time casting barbs at one another, skimming casual insults at our friends often without even noticing the hurt we cause.

Have you heard the one about the Englishman, The Scotsman, The Irishman and The Indian who went to the pub, well they would have done if they hadn't started fighting on the way.

Yorkshire Tea chose Sean Bean waving a sword to advertise itself, a black man did make the silent front row of the surprised faces. He wasn't wearing a badge saying TOKENISM, but he might as well have been.