Stopping racism is descending into a farce
I find it incredible that "Police are considering charging a 10-year-year boy with a race hate crime after he was beaten by a Slovakian woman with an iron bar".
Ok, it was wrong for the 10 year old boy to tell the Slovakian woman “to go back to her own country”. And, he should not have thrown a blackberry at her. However, I feel that the woman overreacted by attacking the 10 year old boy with a 2ft long iron bar. And, the police are overreacting by calling the throwing of the blackberry "racially aggravated assault". It wasn't that long ago that a judge criticised the police for prosecuting a young boy for throwing a cocktail sausage at an old age pensioner.
Eastern Europeans are not even black or brown, they are white. They are different only in their language. All too often people are badly treated for being different. And this is clearly wrong. I feel that parents and schools should teach children that it is wrong to pick on people just because they are different. And, where it comes to their or police attention, then they should speak to the children and tell them about the error of their ways. However, to use laws designed for more serious offences for such trivial matters makes a mockery of justice. It is like taking an elephant gun to swat a fly.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
As human beings, we are all innately "racist" and have needed to be so in order to survive. Unfortunately, the politicians and social "experts" twist the real meaning of the word to become something dirty, to be ashamed of. Those who deliberately target people due to the colour of their skin may well be racist but the vast majority of people are merely reflecting their hunter-gatherer past.
ReplyDeleteAnother sucess story for New Labour's multicultural society.
ReplyDeleteApparently words speak louder than a crow bar smacking your head
ReplyDeleteThe evil bitch needs locking up, and that kid probably got that kind attitude from his parents, so they need looking at too.
ReplyDeleteAbsurd, it would be laughable if it wasn't such a pathetic sign of the way society seems to be heading.
ReplyDeleteTechnically of course it is nonsense anyway. How can it be racist when racially they both belong to the same racial group - we were all causasians long before the EU. Xenophobic maybe, racist - I find it questionable!
Would it be racist of a Yorkshireman to tell a Geordie to "go home"?