Sorry Graham but you have introduced the element that 'the car drove off.' I did not say that, thus you have distorted the context.Originally Posted by grahamw48
Would the colour of the car that hit you and then drove off be irrelevant too ?
If had I had been describing a hit and run, then I think it must obvious to almost all, as I said above, that you would be giving a description of the driver and car.
However, had you been recounting the incident to a friend, then that would have been racist, in the context you would have been using it.
As I said, had the person been white you would be unlike to include in your account of the accident to friend 'a white man.'
That's the difference. It is where even people who consider themselves not racist display their unconscious, racist or sexist, proclivities.
As for :-I believe if you had called her a black b*****d, then that would be racist.
The word 'b*****d' (a noun: a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child) is not racist.
In your context, it would be just insulting and extremely bad mannered. The word 'black' makes it racist.
About 20 years ago a police inspector was reduced in rank to sergeant because he called a colleague a 'Black B********d
