What can we do?

As for the women and people of colour being shoehorned into positions, I'm all for equality but it's daft when someone far better at the role is replaced just because they not female or of colour. That's not true equality then is it as really its discriminating against a human being for being male, middle aged and white.

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So, is he a white person or a 'person of colour'?

Is 'white' not racist as its a colour too, shouldn't it be a 'person of no colour' 🤔😅

The BBC is wholly funded by the licence payer. No EU funding.

As far as nationalism goes, it’s not love of your country. That’s patriotism. Nationalism means you set your nation above others. It aims to divide people into nice neat little boxes. It causes trouble because there are always areas where the population is mixed. It caused most of the major wars or was a big factor in it from the late 19th century to the mid20th. Don’t care whether it’s Scottish, English, Russian, German, it sucks.

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Plenty of people on here saying they have heard nothing at BP for years/ages. Unfortunately, it does happen at BP or within Grimsby supporter ranks. I heard two last season - one at Newport away and one at Yeovil Town away. There was also incident at BP.

The bottom line is the sooner the people travelling to games with these idiots call their mates out on it, the sooner it will go away. Until that happens it won't go away.

It would also help if football clubs saying over the tannoy before games saying "racism has no place in football" replaced that with "racism has no place in society."

And to the bloke complaining about his mate getting sent off for using homophobic abuse towards another player. It's 2019 mate, get with the times.

I would back my common sense against "getting with the times" any day of the week.

Nobody I know is overtly racist or homophobic, but the law of averages tells you some people, including footy fans will be. Once caught, they get punished.

As a more general point, we are seeing increasing cases of the high priests of PC correctness coming down to earth with a very large bump.

Harry and Meghan (don't fly to save the planet, but we will take private jets whenever we like thank you very much); Justin Trudeau (racism  is abhorrent in all its forms, but I can black up at a party) and MP's (I will honour the result but will do everything in my power to thwart it) is eroding trust.

Human beings have failings; they always will have failings and the important thing to me is to acknowledge the improvements we have made over centuries/decades and keep everything in proportion. The crusade that some people are on to make the world perfect is never going to work.

“With the comments about the top government I guess you're also alluding to Brexit causing more incidences of racism, also nonsense, unless you listen to the EU funded Biased Broadcasting Corporation with its metropolitan staff force of course.”

My comment was about the current racist problems reported in the news that are football related. The post is nothing to do with Brexit or Politics. Yes, there is an increase, fact. I was making a connection between our government who have made racist comments, fact. With no recourse this abuse becomes normalized.

Guys football games sometime attract the lowest IQs people in the population. That's all it is.

The UK is one of the least racist place on the planet, if you believe the UK is a little racist you have been reading too many newspapers written by dogmatic political journalists playing the gender and race card for clicks and power.

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Is 'white' not racist as its a colour too, shouldn't it be a 'person of no colour' 🤔😅

Who gives a intercourse? I'm white and don't mind being called so, Brazil's red and sod all the other shades

The younger ones on here would not have seen the Black + White Minstrel Show.

Now that was racist !!!!!!!!!!

Challenge it always. Be brave. Idiots who spout that excrement are not brave or smart enough to respond.

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The younger ones on here would not have seen the Black + White Minstrel Show.

Now that was racist !!!!!!!!!!

It wasn't though Pete because in the days of that show no one thought racially in respect of stuff like that.

It was an innocent show and those producing it or performing in it had no racial thoughts whatsoever.

Its like 'Zwaart Piet' the blacked up character who accompanies Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. There has been a huge argument, protests resulting in arrests in the last few years about the character being a racist insult to black people as its a white bloke blacked up. Its a centuries old tradition, the black face having evolved from a soot smeared face which Santas helper got going down chimneys. In many cities Swaart Piet is now banned or just allowed to dirty his face a bit.

Racism is much stronger and deliberately directed than the Black and White Minstrel Show, no one threw bananas or shouted racial abuse at the telly.