imo it's gone too far all this anti-racism stuff - to the point that it is creating problems that it was designed to solve.
people will always use physical and cultural traits as insults in the heat of the moment (e.g. ginger b@stard, lanky b@stard, French tw@t). i was once called a white b@stard by a group of asian lads! - i wasn't particularly offended because i don't think that being white is a bad thing... so why should a black person get particularly offended at being called black?! that's the problem they've created - they're almost saying that being non-white is some sort of disability that shouldn't be mentioned.
Enoch Powell denied being racist because his definition of racism was believing that one race is superior to another - which he didn't - he just opposed immigration for social reasons, he didn't hate non-white people.
The 'It may be politically incorrect but..' brigade are still with us, I see.
What a lot of rubbish.
The sensitivity about using black as an insult is for very obvious historical reasons. If you are not familiar with them, googling 'slavery' and 'apartheid' will help.
Reading the life of Basil D'Olivera might help also.
I'm not aware of any culture in which ginger haired people were systematically denied any rights because of their hair colour. That's the difference.
As for Powell, his speech might have been worthwhile in the 50s when large numbers of people were being shipped over from the West Indies and the Indian subcontinent as the UK was very short of labour.
I can't see much use for it in 1968.
And in the matter of historical prediction he was quite simply wrong.
I too am not very interested in football.
I am interested in confronting racism.
Given that the evidence was carefully evaluated before the judgement, and Liverpool failed to appeal, I give that much more weight than the opinions of mere fans.
Given that Suarez has apologised, I give that too much more weight than the opinions of mere fans.
Racism is real, this happened, it continues to happen, it should be stopped.
