Sorry Graham but you have introduced the element that 'the car drove off.' I did not say that, thus you have distorted the context.
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
Well I would have fired the police officer.
Todays good news
Charlie Gilmour charged over student protest violence
The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been charged with violent disorder during a protest against increased tuition fees in London.
Charlie Gilmour, 21, of Billinghurst, Sussex, is also accused of stealing a mannequin leg on 9 December.
He is due at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 10 February.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12303637
Max sentence 5 years imprisonment - Judge please take note
mmmmmm this thread is very deep , the racist thing, im not racist, but can anyone tell why the robertsons gollywog was racist, the black and white minstrels, nigger brown, ooops am i allowed to say that, dont i have freedom of speach , bring back our heritage,,bring back,,,,, ba ba enthnic colourd sheep, this country is destined to become a muslim country, well thats my view stewart an xpat of bradford, having being ethnicly cleansed , i believe in when in rome live as the romans do
Britain,Islamic state, that's the way its going
i won't be here btw
Neither am I racist, Stewart ... but with you 100%. In fact, I was just saying to Myrna - this very evening - how, as kids, we were able to hire Golliwog costumes through Robertson's sales rep who used to call regularly at my Aunt Sally's grocery shop in the Perthshire village of Glenfarg back in the 1950s.
Aye ... those were the days, eh!? "Freedom of speech" ... and a lot more relaxed they were too!!
If I'm not mistaken the Robertsons Golliwog was one of the first things the zealots banned
I don't think daddy loved him enough and he has to have everyone's attention. Don't jail him, just ignore him, that'll feel like the end of the world to him.
The grub has made a court appearance - obviously Daddy's got people working on his image
Fresh faced, with a short, neat haircut and a collared shirt, the Charlie Gilmour who appeared in court today bore little resemblance to the long-haired, combat boot-wearing protester who took part in a student fees riot in central London.
The son of guitar legend Dave Gilmour is accused of taking part in a mob attack on a royal convoy on December 9.
He made a brief appearance in City of Westminster Magistrates' Court looking every inch like the young public school-educated, Cambridge University student he is.
Wearing a blue shirt, navy jumper and black trousers, Gilmour spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth.
It was a far cry from his previous look of dishevelled hair, muddy jeans, latex gloves and carrying a red flag branded with the words 'revolution'.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1HjuBRZZy
but they missed his ex public school tie with a Windsor knot
Sometimes I wonder about our judges.
Hopefully it wont be too long before Gilmour gets cut down to size. One of the unwashed wept as he got 12 months yesterday
The university dreams of a student with ‘exceptional promise’ were shattered last night after he was jailed for rioting during protests against Government cuts.
Francis Fernie, 20, became embroiled in a violent stand-off with police outside luxury goods retailer Fortnum and Mason as 500,000 demonstrators brought London to a standstill in March.
Damning CCTV footage showed him drunkenly throwing sticks that had been used to hold placards at officers who were struggling to calm a surging mob.
Fernie, who was described as having a ‘social conscience and active interest in politics’, recently sat his A-levels and was expected to take up an offer to study science at Sheffield Hallam University.
But within days of completing his exams he travelled to London from York for the protests. He wept as he was jailed for 12 months at Kingston Crown Court yesterday after admitting violent disorder.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1Re1q2vpW
no doubt he'll serve only a few months in the big house, but it will teach him a lesson he never will forget
With any luck he'll be sharing a cell in The Scrubs with Big Bubba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gErsF7hKQv8
'He travelled to London from York' ? Hmm.
Hope my lad hasn't been hanging around with him.
Actually he's on a 'sleepover' at a girl's house tonight.
- Jammy bugger.
In my day her old man would have come after me with both barrels.
Maximum sentence please Your Honour
The shamed son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour was ‘thoroughly intoxicated’ when he attacked the royal convoy during the student fees riots, a court heard yesterday.
Charlie Gilmour, 21, was seen swinging on the Union Flag at the Cenotaph just hours before he hurled a bin at a car escorting the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.
The disgraced Cambridge University student also jumped on the bonnet of the car, which was carrying close protection officers, blocking the driver’s view of the Prince’s Rolls-Royce in front, it was claimed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1S7uBR6I3
it looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, nicely dressed .. for prison
12:38 Disappointing that the Judge only gave him 16 months - he'll be bawling his eyes out now in the cells. Big Bubba's waiting for him
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...d-rampage.html
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