Greg Clarke resigns for racist comments

[Supersub6]

It's a bloody good job that we are in lockdown, it's probably saving my being offensive to all and sundry.
I must learn how to call a spade --an implement with which one can disturb the earth in order to carry out other activities.
Perhaps I won't bother --the world has gone bonkers and I wish to remain sane.

[sinkov]

It's a nonsense I agree, Mrs S got lectureded by a young family relation a few years ago when she referred to 'coloured people', you can't say that now she was told, it's 'black'. Mrs S's protest that when she was teaching she was instructed to use 'coloured' and never to use 'black' fell on deaf ears, you cannot call people coloured now, end of.

What does surprise me is the naivety of Clarke and others like him who have fallen into the same trap, this PC nonsense was being hammered into us over 20 years ago, it's by no means anything new, how can someone in as prominent and important a position as he is not know this, not know how to play the game, not know what's 'acceptable' and what isn't ? It's astonishing, has he been walking round with a paper bag over his head all this century, I can only assume he must have.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Most of us are aware by now "Coloured People" is a term largely synonymous with Apartheid. HTF a bloke in an institution, which promotes kneeling for BLM pre-match messaging does not know using the term would cause a sh-it storm is incomprehensible.

Or maybe, he has had enough of all of this PC claptrap and put himself in a position where he could just walk off into a happy retirement and leave the Snowflake Brigade and BLM movement to get on with it.

[sinkov]

Black person - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa). Alternatives, but use them with extreme caution ~ blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Black.

I would think Blackamoor is on the proscribed list BT. I can remember sometime in the late 90s at Nelson Fire Station, a Divisional Officer was on an official visit, full monty dress uniform, white shirt, scrambled egg on cap. He'd started his career at Nelson, most of us knew him, we'd worked with him, so when he'd finished with the bull**** part of his visit, he sat down for a cup of tea and a chat with his old mates. One of the lads said something about Blackamoors and he stopped him dead in his tracks, 'Don't use that word in front of me, ever'. And he wasn't joking, I suspect if it had been someone he didn't know, he'd have had him in the office and put him on a charge.

I think it was also the old Queen Mums favourite description of her subjects in the sub-continent, but I don't think a bit of honest to goodness racism ever worried the old girl, different world she lived in.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I would think Blackamoor is on the proscribed list BT. I can remember sometime in the late 90s at Nelson Fire Station, a Divisional Officer was on an official visit, full monty dress uniform, white shirt, scrambled egg on cap. He'd started his career at Nelson, most of us knew him, we'd worked with him, so when he'd finished with the bull**** part of his visit, he sat down for a cup of tea and a chat with his old mates. One of the lads said something about Blackamoors and he stopped him dead in his tracks, 'Don't use that word in front of me, ever'. And he wasn't joking, I suspect if it had been someone he didn't know, he'd have had him in the office and put him on a charge.

I think it was also the old Queen Mums favourite description of her subjects in the sub-continent, but I don't think a bit of honest to goodness racism ever worried the old girl, different world she lived in.

Nearly as bad as Blow Job's, "Piccaninnies with water melon smiles" eh sinkov.

[Altobelli]

I watched all the Morning news programs this morning, I nearly kicked the TV over, Time after time black footballer, black administrators in the game and even black football fans saying now is the time for the FA to recruit black folk, surely if you are good enough for any position you'll get it regardless of colour or creed.

I agree with Army in that we are the best at making mountains out of mole hills when it comes to racism.

My sister-in-law is a trainer in health and social care and specialises in Autism and Dementia, she goes all over the Country to teach people in health and care.

She was in Nottingham last week and finished her lesson with about 18 people and asked if they wanted to talk about anything else, one black man (of which there was 7) said can we talk about racism and BLM, she said yes, and all of them said that the way we have changed in this Country in the last few months most blacks feel more distanced from whites because of all the idiotic actions, which for me seals the deal

[sinkov]

most blacks feel more distanced from whites because of all the idiotic actions, which for me seals the deal

And that's precisely their aim Alto, unfortunately gullible footballers like Ben Mee, virtue signalling tw@ts on Twitter, the lefty media and most of our politicians just can't, won't or daren't see it.

[army88]

I watched all the Morning news programs this morning, I nearly kicked the TV over, Time after time black footballer, black administrators in the game and even black football fans saying now is the time for the FA to recruit black folk, surely if you are good enough for any position you'll get it regardless of colour or creed.

I agree with Army in that we are the best at making mountains out of mole hills when it comes to racism.

My sister-in-law is a trainer in health and social care and specialises in Autism and Dementia, she goes all over the Country to teach people in health and care.

She was in Nottingham last week and finished her lesson with about 18 people and asked if they wanted to talk about anything else, one black man (of which there was 7) said can we talk about racism and BLM, she said yes, and all of them said that the way we have changed in this Country in the last few months most blacks feel more distanced from whites because of all the idiotic actions, which for me seals the deal

Exactly Alto, were back to the divide and conquer scenario -- they want us to be annoyed and sure enough it will create tension and basically more racism than there was before.

Give these groups and people a platform and before long this is what happens, I said before all the BLM rubbish would end in disaster and it has.

It's bonkers in this country with racism , walking on egg shells continuously as it becomes worse and worse.

[oldcolner]

Exactly Alto, were back to the divide and conquer scenario -- they want us to be annoyed and sure enough it will create tension and basically more racism than there was before.

Give these groups and people a platform and before long this is what happens, I said before all the BLM rubbish would end in disaster and it has.

It's bonkers in this country with racism , walking on egg shells continuously as it becomes worse and worse.

Have been trying to find out who decides what terms are racist and haven’t found it yet. There’s legislation about racial equality / discrimination and hate speech, but Clarke wasn’t hating anyone.

Wikipedia lists hundreds of terms here but they don’t include black brown or coloured??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

Think I’ll stop speaking for fear of upsetting someone.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I do not understand why our black footballers get so all heat up about what goes on over the pond. The language and the narrative is a US thing and there is no reason to transfer it here. We have never, ever done racial segregation.

The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow segregation etc. etc should be consigned to the US past, but somehow it becomes relevant in the UK every time some ill-considered comment from a while male gets the PC Brigade and Snowflake Army all on their high horses again.

The term “coloured people” is regarded as an offensive racial slur which recalls a time when casual racism was a part of North American everyday life. Not really relevant in 2020 Hammersmith or Lancaster Gate though, is it?

It is particularly specific to the US, because of the country's history of racial segregation, it is now considered among the most offensive words for describing a black person. To counter this James Brown used to proclaim, “Say it loud, I am black, and I am proud!”

The likes of Marvin Sordell who is the latest black person to jump on the racist bandwagon, needs to re-iterate the words of the Godfather of Soul, "**** off Clarke, I'm gonna say it loud, I am black, and I am proud!”

I notice Southgate had to start crooning from the FA's official hymn sheet yesterday, which seems a tad ironic since this whole sh-itstorm was started by the then Chairman of the FA. Gareth grow a pair.