Did you know Ross Barkley was (1/4) black?

[sota]

ha ha one of the best was that CA.

[KerrAvon]

I've read this OP several times. I have nothing at all against the poster. But this post is appalling and wrong on so many levels I can't be rrsed to comment further. Shameful crap.

I agree with you, but only had to read the OP once.

[KerrAvon]

Thanks Newcy, like the u in humor, appreciation for my talent often goes missing on here. I've probably been over the pond too long? Maybe I'll come onto the Wolves site where it seems a more discerning crowd for my jokes can be found. However, I have sometimes caught mmm laughing at my quips so all is not lost.

I thought it very amusing, Cam.

[monty_rhodes]

I wholeheartedly agree with you, but the thing is, you've waited this long to realise it? must be influenced heavily by the news then, jumped on the bandwagon, why can't you make your own mind up....it was plain as day to me how wrong it was immediately....

I admit to being confused by your comment. I don't see a bandwagon. I came on MM, read the thread, read the OP a couple more times (Kerr, too, is a point scoring rrse) to make sure I wasn't missing some subtlety or ironic element and left a response. Surely for something to be "plain as day to me how wrong it was immediately..." I have to read it first? You are an appalling character and clearly seen as such by the majority on here. So far up your own backside with your moral superiority but in reality just a turd.

[great_fire]

Watching Match of the Day yesterday and Ross Barkley isn't even tanned, in fact he's paler than most all-white people so making out Mackenzie is racist and this was a "hate crime" is bizarre and wrong.

Criticism of MacKenzie making disparging remarks about Liverpudlians on the eve of the Hillsborough anniversary is fair though and you would have thought he would have learned his lesson ages ago.

[monty_rhodes]

Watching Match of the Day yesterday and Ross Barkley isn't even tanned, in fact he's paler than most all-white people so making out Mackenzie is racist and this was a "hate crime" is bizarre and wrong.

Criticism of MacKenzie making disparging remarks about Liverpudlians on the eve of the Hillsborough anniversary is fair though and you would have thought he would have learned his lesson ages ago.

As I posted before I have no axe to grind against you as a poster on MM. I have no idea if KM is a racist but he seems undeniably to be an unpleasant loudmouthed bigot. The point about your post which riled me was the "revenge for Hillsborough" bit - a choice of words which I'm sure you regret. We can all make this kind of misjudgement and I don't hold it against you.

[great_fire]

What I meant was that the Mayor of Liverpool were falsely accusing him of racism in an opportunistic way because of the lies he published after Hillsborough and because they hate him as do most people.

[brassgnat]

Even too racist for The Sun now!!

[John2]

I certainly didn't.

You might not have realised, however you are not a journalist.

The first thing any journalist would do before writing such an article is find out all the information they can about the person. Simply reading his Wikipedia would have revealed he is of Nigerian ancestry and the chances KM would have known this when he wrote the article approach 100%.

[John2]

Watching Match of the Day yesterday and Ross Barkley isn't even tanned, in fact he's paler than most all-white people so making out Mackenzie is racist and this was a "hate crime" is bizarre and wrong.

The idea that a hate crime or racism can only be perpetrated if a person's skin tone exceeds a certain threshold is bizarre and wrong, and doesn't reflect well on the intellect of the person expressing it.