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Hilarious, a whole stadium of white toffs singing a slave song to fire up the team during difficult moments in a match. If any of the black players were aware of it then it just goes to show what they’ve been living through. Strange times.

    I watched the parliamentary debate on the effects of Covid on BAME communities yesterday on bbc parliament.

    If reading out virtue-signalling platitudes was an effective solution to racism it would be completely eradicated after that “debate”.

    What an absolute sham.

    • LT42 replied to this.

      C_J I’m sure. Did every speaker start with the line “What we need is…” whilst wagging a finger in several directions?

      • C_J replied to this.

          At one point some SNP SMP proudly declared she’d registered her constituency office as a 3rd party hate crime reporting centre because “often Black people don’t realise they’ve been a victim of a crime and it was up to others to report it.”

          🤭

          LT42 no, there wasn’t any practical considerations in terms of what was needed. It was more things like “we stand shoulder to shoulder with the black community” and “there is no place for racism of any kind”.

          • LT42 replied to this.

              mono-stereo
              Likewise.

              I always hold up Uncle Ben and The Man from Del Monte as examples of what you can achieve if you work hard to my daughter.

              Proper grafters

                C_J ahh, forward thinking rhetoric. Wonderful.

                  The Dolmio family are next in the line of fire due to racist connotations to the Italian community.

                  Smallman1 Certainly a good look to aim for. In reality I suspect you end up looking more like Dickie Bird.

                    Is it still OK to say “I could murder an Indian / Chinese?”

                    • -si- replied to this.

                      Old-Dutch

                      “I could murder a plate of traditional british cuisine that isn’t fish and chips!” is what we are using now, dutch…

                        Hursty

                        Only just read the article, hursty.

                        The image who personifies the brand “was a beloved Chicago chef and waiter named Frank Brown”, the company said.
                        Mars also said, however, that it recognised the use of the character was out of step with the times, and pledged to overhaul the brand following sweeping calls for racial equality following the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign.

                        Am i missing something here, if wee frankie brown was so beloved why does his boat race have to be removed from the packaging?