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[Lizzie Zoom]

While everyone leaps aboard the outrage bus, it is important to step back slightly and actually UNDERSTAND why what he said is so upsetting to many.

I accept is is extremely difficult to find a single word that describes those footballers (and any one for that matter) of other than "caucasian" heritage that does not offend someone .. but the use of the word "coloured" is certainly offensive to a great number ... why you might ask ??

It simply harks back to the days of legal segregation, mainly in the USA, but also in places like South Africa, where the whole basis of segregation was not based on "white/non white" - which would have been bad enough - but on "white/coloured" - where "coloured" = "non white" - and that is how things like buses, drinking fountains, shop queues, entrances to hotels, and a thousand other places/things were labelled ....

"Whites" were free to enter at will, "Coloured" were pointed away/banned/refused ... so the term "Coloured" came to mean "2nd class citizen" or worse, as it implied that "whites" were somehow "superior" beings... it is that element that makes the word so upsetting.

You may not like it, and may argue it is just a word to describe a "non-white", however the phrase "white" in itself is inaccurate .. we all have some sort of skin colour/tone so are all "coloured" to some extent, but we were never oppressed to the same degree, simply based on our skin tone.

Greg Clarke should simply have known better, and has rightly gone, it now matters that his replacement actually thinks before speaking.

Absolutely agree

I heard what he uttered and it WAS full of stereotyping about anyone who was not white, and worse still he degraded gil / women footballers

Full marks to the man he fully apologise for what he had said, himself knowing on reflection it was wrong and did the right thing.

End of story

[Lizzie Zoom]

OK....so Greg Clarke used outdated language and apologised for not being at the cutting edge of political correctness. It looks like he jumped before he was pushed because using the word coloured in2020 is clearly far worse than murder.

Strange really, because I can remember a time when 'coloured' was considered a polite and respectful term of endearment, especially when the norm for the time was wog, coon, sambo, jungle bunny etc...etc...

Not enough to apologise. Greg needs to take the knee of submission to BLM.

Yes so can we all Opti, but was that, and the 'colourful' language that often / frequently came with it right?

No it was not then and now, in 2020, we should move on

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

OK....so Greg Clarke used outdated language and apologised for not being at the cutting edge of political correctness. It looks like he jumped before he was pushed because using the word coloured in2020 is clearly far worse than murder.

Strange really, because I can remember a time when 'coloured' was considered a polite and respectful term of endearment, especially when the norm for the time was wog, coon, sambo, jungle bunny etc...etc...

Not enough to apologise. Greg needs to take the knee.

Yes so can we all Opti, but was that, and the 'colourful' language that often / frequently came with it right?

No it was not then and now, in 2020, we should move on

Yes.....all us old farts need to move with the times. So do black people.

Segregation has not been around since the mid sixties. LBJ played a big part in making this happen. There are no racist laws in the USA now. Laws that stop black people from succeeding.

Many black people do achieve what they want from life in 2020. These are blacks blessed with a victor rather than victim mentality. Black high achievers don't tend to bang on about slavery, white privilege, and white oppression. They know this outdated vies of the evil white man being to blame for everything is counter-productive.

[Rangie]

The truth of it all is you may be able to change what people say but  you can never change what is in someones head.

[Doctor Gollum]

Good.

[STEMO]

The truth of it all is you may be able to change what people say but  you can never change what is in someones head.

Can't change what I say, Mick, especially within these four walls.

[Rangie]

The truth of it all is you may be able to change what people say but  you can never change what is in someones head.

Can't change what I say, Mick, especially within these four walls.

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Same here Steve my missus despairs !

[STEMO]

The truth of it all is you may be able to change what people say but  you can never change what is in someones head.

Can't change what I say, Mick, especially within these four walls.

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Same here Steve my missus despairs !

Mine's a PC headteacher......I think she actually hates me when I start 

[STEMO]

Just to add, when I do cancel sky sports, I'll make no bones about telling them why, even if the customer service chap sounds a bit ......erm......coloured?   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The truth of it all is you may be able to change what people say but  you can never change what is in someones head.

Can't change what I say, Mick, especially within these four walls.

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Same here Steve my missus despairs !

Mine's a PC headteacher......I think she actually hates me when I start 

Headmistress.

[STEMO]

The truth of it all is you may be able to change what people say but  you can never change what is in someones head.

Can't change what I say, Mick, especially within these four walls.

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Same here Steve my missus despairs !

Mine's a PC headteacher......I think she actually hates me when I start 

Headmistress.

How very dare you, you sexist bastard! Resign.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/1I3wJ7pJUjg

White privilege........all white people have it. Even when collecting food from the food bank.

Why is this devisive shit allowed.

A classic example of how to make all black kids feel like helpless victims (which they are not) and how all white kids would be helpless without white privilege.

[STEMO]

https://youtu.be/1I3wJ7pJUjg

White privilege........all white people have it. Even when collecting food from the food bank.

Why is this devisive shit allowed.

A classic example of how to make all black kids feel like helpless victims (which they are not) and how all white kids would be helpless without white privilege.

It only matters if you take any notice of it, Opti. Get in your jag, drive somewhere common, and lord it over everyone, black or white. Just don't let it get to you, it's really not worth it.

[Doctor Gollum]

https://youtu.be/1I3wJ7pJUjg

White privilege........all white people have it. Even when collecting food from the food bank.

Why is this devisive shit allowed.

A classic example of how to make all black kids feel like helpless victims (which they are not) and how all white kids would be helpless without white privilege.

The comments are encouraging.

'critical race indoctrination of children. How are these people allowed near children?' is the general gist.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/1I3wJ7pJUjg

White privilege........all white people have it. Even when collecting food from the food bank.

Why is this devisive shit allowed.

A classic example of how to make all black kids feel like helpless victims (which they are not) and how all white kids would be helpless without white privilege.

The comments are encouraging.

'critical race indoctrination of children. How are these people allowed near children?' is the general gist.

It demonstrates the 'worst of all world's scenario'

Black kids won't bother to try to achieve because they believe the cards are stacked against them because they don't have white privilege.

White kids will feel they don't really deserve any success  because it is all down to them being white and not how talented they are.

Obviously loaded questioned given to impressionable children by adults who should know better. All it does is make them all feel bad about themselves.

Indoctrination.