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I would love to be able to turn the clock back 20 years and get the cynics on here to come to one of my courses to listen to Keith Alexander relate  some of the racists experiences he had encountered,you would all have been very moved I can assure you.

Quoted from friskneymariner

I would love to be able to turn the clock back 20 years and get the cynics on here to come to one of my courses to listen to Keith Alexander relate  some of the racists experiences he had encountered,you would all have been very moved I can assure you.

I nearly brought up Keith 7 pages ago. He must have put up with so much sh1t. We have moved on. But too slowly

Quoted from friskneymariner

Don't feed his ego he gets a perverse kick out of winding people up,probably getting excited by your response.

I am simply drunk off because everybody is getting so wound up because someone has used the word 'coloured' instead of black Not everyone is as up to date and painfully PC as the righteous on here claim to be

I am told that coloured is not acceptable because it used to signify 'non white' and I must now call people 'black'. Does that mean everyone who is non white is therefore now black? My light brown Moroccan neighbour will I am sure not like it much - I'll ask him

Quoted from Ipswin

I am simply drunk off because everybody is getting so wound up because someone has used the word 'coloured' instead of black Not everyone is as up to date and painfully PC as the righteous on here claim to be

I am told that coloured is not acceptable because it used to signify 'non white' and I must now call people 'black'. Does that mean everyone who is non white is therefore now black? My light brown Moroccan neighbour will I am sure not like it much - I'll ask him

Be drunk off all you want but you’re not the top man at an organisation known around the world, with access to the latest commercial, media and diversity training.

There is no excuse...

Quoted from Ipswin

I am simply drunk off because everybody is getting so wound up because someone has used the word 'coloured' instead of black Not everyone is as up to date and painfully PC as the righteous on here claim to be

I am told that coloured is not acceptable because it used to signify 'non white' and I must now call people 'black'. Does that mean everyone who is non white is therefore now black? My light brown Moroccan neighbour will I am sure not like it much - I'll ask him

Read this thread and again and tell me it's the anti-racists who are getting wound up......In terms of your Moroccan neighbour, why don't you just refer to him by his name or ask him?

Quoted from aldi_01

Be drunk off all you want but you’re not the top man at an organisation known around the world, with access to the latest commercial, media and diversity training.

There is no excuse...

I am not and never have defended the bloke If it is deemed wrong to use the term he used then of course I accept that. What I object to are the holier than thou brigade criticising older folk who are not aware ad therefore might use what is now a non PC term. I am 100% sure that none of them use the wrong term to be deliberately racist.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Read this thread and again and tell me it's the anti-racists who are getting wound up......In terms of your Moroccan neighbour, why don't you just refer to him by his name or ask him?

It most certainly is, ever since a poster said his elderly parents still used the incorrect term no understanding has been shown to those of us who are not 100% up to date on current thinking (coloured / BAME etc)

As far as my neighbour is concerned of course I address him by name but were I to describe him to an outsider I wouldn't feel comfortable if I said 'that black bloke', to me that is incorrect and I don't feel comfortable using the term. I'm certainly not going to call over the fence today and say 'are you black Mo?'

Not all 'non-whites' are black, that's all.and the term is as incorrect as 'coloured' was.

If you have to 'describe him to an outsider' why not refer to him as 'my neighbour'? For what it's worth I have some sympathy for elderly people in these situations but less for heads of the FA and people obtusely flipping about on League 2 football forums.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

less for people obtusely flipping about on League 2 football forums.

Well that immediately discriminates against 50% of the posters on here for a start!  

Only 50%?!