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

[great_fire]

No just wondering how they could have been offended by something they've not read.

When people start crying "racist" for no reason I lose sympathy for them, even though I don't like MacKenzie and doubt anyone does really.

[millmoormagic]

Don't you see how you're already stereotyping, you really should leave your bias behind you.

[Lasterman]

I don't like Mckenzie and some of his views are pretty unpleasant. However, I don't think this article was racist. Like most of us, I suspect he had no idea that Barclay has black heritage. And what are we to make of the fact that The Sun have suspended him...

- that they don't bother reading what their columnists write before it's published?
or...
- that they read it, didn't know Barclay has black heritage, but believe Mckenzie did?
or...
- they have taken a logically inconsistent line of least resistance after coming in for criticism?

If there's a can to be carried for this, The Sun should be carrying it.

[mikemiller]

Unfair to make out that Mackenzie is a racist???? LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!
He also hates Scousers (partly because of the Dockers strike too)
He also hated the miners..
and the steelworkers
Anybody who fought back against Thatcher
He is a piece of ****

[great_fire]

Unfair to make out that Mackenzie is a racist???? LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!
He also hates Scousers (partly because of the Dockers strike too)
He also hated the miners..
and the steelworkers
Anybody who fought back against Thatcher
He is a piece of ****

I never said he wasn't.

But Scousers, miners and steelworkers aren't races.

[lbj]

The guy who wrote this Pulitzer Prize winning article is on holiday but the newspaper are distancing themselves from the article itself although there must have been some editorial critique so they can't hide.....

He is not a nice man is he !

[gorky]

I certainly didn't.

I don't like Kelvin MacKenzie but think it's unfair to make out he's a racist.

This is just revenge for Hillsborough.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39603942

Journalist spreads unfounded lies about human disaster accusing people of causing deaths and robbing the dead, to make money (for some reason the scumbag is not in prison).

On the anniversary of this disaster slags off the entire city and one of its most famous sportsmen. People get upset about being insulted.

Great fire believes journalist is the victim. What a warped mind.

[monty_rhodes]

I certainly didn't.

I don't like Kelvin MacKenzie but think it's unfair to make out he's a racist.

This is just revenge for Hillsborough.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39603942

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.

[millmoormagic]

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 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....

[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.