BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
A group called Race for Sport are calling for the FA to take action against Woy for his monkey joke and are insisting that all managers undergo 'cultural intelligence' training.
It seems to me that racism in the UK has reached the hysterical levels of the McCarty Witch Hunt for communists in the USA.
Here we have a man who is doing his job well and is considered to be a decent man by all who know him. What he said in the dressing room wasn't racist and wasn't taken to be racist by the people he said it to. Then a newspaper picks it up and suddenly all of these groups like the Black Lawyers and Race for Sport and looking for him to be punished for implying meaning to his words which wasn't there when he said them.
It seems to me that these professionally offended people are now looking for Roy's head because he used the word monkey.
The paranoia with racists in the UK seems to have reached a frenzy where saying a word like black or monkey regardless of the context makes you a racist.
Blackboard and ba ba black sheep are gone. Are we still allowed to have black hair or wear black shoes. Is the word black racist? If I drive a black car, does that make me racist? How about if I see a monkey in the jungle, should I keep it to myself for fear of being branded a racist?
And we all know that there is nothing worse than a racist. It's the very worst thing that a human being can be. Rapists can serve their time and resume their tv career but racists know that they'll never be allowed back in the studio. You could be a drug dealer and your neighbours would still say an embarrassed hello but a racist wouldn't even deserve eye contact.
The irony of it all is that I've never met anyone from the UK who was actually a racist. I'm not saying they don't exist buy have you ever met a Russian who didn't detest Africans? That's real racism. Groups of youths attacking migrant workers - that's real racism.
Perhaps the problem with groups like Race for Sport and the Black Lawyers is that there are no more battles to fight. The racism that Britain experienced in the 1950s is gone and now they have to invent enemies to keep themselves relevant?
It seems to me that racism in the UK has reached the hysterical levels of the McCarty Witch Hunt for communists in the USA.
Here we have a man who is doing his job well and is considered to be a decent man by all who know him. What he said in the dressing room wasn't racist and wasn't taken to be racist by the people he said it to. Then a newspaper picks it up and suddenly all of these groups like the Black Lawyers and Race for Sport and looking for him to be punished for implying meaning to his words which wasn't there when he said them.
It seems to me that these professionally offended people are now looking for Roy's head because he used the word monkey.
The paranoia with racists in the UK seems to have reached a frenzy where saying a word like black or monkey regardless of the context makes you a racist.
Blackboard and ba ba black sheep are gone. Are we still allowed to have black hair or wear black shoes. Is the word black racist? If I drive a black car, does that make me racist? How about if I see a monkey in the jungle, should I keep it to myself for fear of being branded a racist?
And we all know that there is nothing worse than a racist. It's the very worst thing that a human being can be. Rapists can serve their time and resume their tv career but racists know that they'll never be allowed back in the studio. You could be a drug dealer and your neighbours would still say an embarrassed hello but a racist wouldn't even deserve eye contact.
The irony of it all is that I've never met anyone from the UK who was actually a racist. I'm not saying they don't exist buy have you ever met a Russian who didn't detest Africans? That's real racism. Groups of youths attacking migrant workers - that's real racism.
Perhaps the problem with groups like Race for Sport and the Black Lawyers is that there are no more battles to fight. The racism that Britain experienced in the 1950s is gone and now they have to invent enemies to keep themselves relevant?