Playing the race card is now a tactic employed far too easily by ethnic minorities arrested for a criminal or civil offence. This normally entails the arrested person:
Take TV and Radio football pundit Trevor Sinclair. He had been a professional footballer who had played for England, and was a regular freelance pundit on the BBC. On the 12th of November, he was arrested in Clifton Drive Blackpool, after he was involved in a collision with a woman getting out of a taxi, this after drunkenly driving his car from his home in Lytham St Annes in to Blackpool.
Breathalysed, he was found to be twice the legal alcohol limit. He then racially abused the white police officer who had arrested him, reportedly calling him a 'white c*nt', and urinated in the back of the police car on his way to the police station.
He was charged with drink driving, a racially aggravated public order offence, assault on a police officer, failing to provide a specimen, and criminal damage, amongst other things .... he plea bargained, and eventually pleaded guilty to the drink driving and a racially aggravated public order offence, with the other charges dropped or put on file.
He was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work and disqualified from driving for 20 months, as well as having to pay £500 compensation to the police officer he had racially abused. It should be noted that he had a previous drink driving offence on record, as in 1998, he had been convicted of causing criminal damage to a car, following a night of drinking in an Essex nightclub. He blamed his latest behaviour on number two from the stock excuse list i.e. allegedly being subjected to racism in front of his family while out having a meal hours earlier. His lawyer said an unknown woman had approached Sinclair, patted him on the head and called him a “little chocolate man” .... an unusual use of English terminology, to say the least.
In a colour blind society, a convicted, drunken, violent, or racist TV pundit should be treated the same way whatever their skin colour ..... and apparently for once the BBC agree. The Guardian Newspaper has reported that the BBC said it had “no scheduled plans to use him on our programmes”. He has also been reprimanded by the anti-racism groups he had represented.
An earlier example of being dropped by the media for 'racism' was Big Ron Atkinson, a white ex-Player, Manager and TV pundit, who never worked on mainstream TV again, after using the N word off microphone on a radio punditry job. A repeat of a BBC Radio documentary about three of the first black footballers to become successful in English football, who he had managed, entitled 'The Three Degrees', was immediately cancelled, owing to Atkinson's central contributions to the black players careers.
Atkinson's mainstream media career was effectively over, despite many black players saying that he wasn't racist. We would expect that Sinclair gets treated exactly the same way by the media companies as Ron Atkinson did, and that we don't get dual standards applied ... we'll wait and see.
- Accusing the police arresting them of racism, or
- Excusing their behaviour on some other, usually unnamed, person of being racist to them, which then set off their own bad behaviour, or
- Saying that it was a cultural issue, and basically a white problem, as they didn't cater for the 'cultural differences', which would mean that their bad behaviour was only 'criminal', in white countries.
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| Trevor Sinclair Accused The Police Of Racism (#1 Stock Excuse) .... But .... |
Take TV and Radio football pundit Trevor Sinclair. He had been a professional footballer who had played for England, and was a regular freelance pundit on the BBC. On the 12th of November, he was arrested in Clifton Drive Blackpool, after he was involved in a collision with a woman getting out of a taxi, this after drunkenly driving his car from his home in Lytham St Annes in to Blackpool.
Breathalysed, he was found to be twice the legal alcohol limit. He then racially abused the white police officer who had arrested him, reportedly calling him a 'white c*nt', and urinated in the back of the police car on his way to the police station.
He was charged with drink driving, a racially aggravated public order offence, assault on a police officer, failing to provide a specimen, and criminal damage, amongst other things .... he plea bargained, and eventually pleaded guilty to the drink driving and a racially aggravated public order offence, with the other charges dropped or put on file.
He was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work and disqualified from driving for 20 months, as well as having to pay £500 compensation to the police officer he had racially abused. It should be noted that he had a previous drink driving offence on record, as in 1998, he had been convicted of causing criminal damage to a car, following a night of drinking in an Essex nightclub. He blamed his latest behaviour on number two from the stock excuse list i.e. allegedly being subjected to racism in front of his family while out having a meal hours earlier. His lawyer said an unknown woman had approached Sinclair, patted him on the head and called him a “little chocolate man” .... an unusual use of English terminology, to say the least.
In a colour blind society, a convicted, drunken, violent, or racist TV pundit should be treated the same way whatever their skin colour ..... and apparently for once the BBC agree. The Guardian Newspaper has reported that the BBC said it had “no scheduled plans to use him on our programmes”. He has also been reprimanded by the anti-racism groups he had represented.
An earlier example of being dropped by the media for 'racism' was Big Ron Atkinson, a white ex-Player, Manager and TV pundit, who never worked on mainstream TV again, after using the N word off microphone on a radio punditry job. A repeat of a BBC Radio documentary about three of the first black footballers to become successful in English football, who he had managed, entitled 'The Three Degrees', was immediately cancelled, owing to Atkinson's central contributions to the black players careers.
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| Ron and Dalian Atkinson - Atkinson Supported Many Black Players Careers |
Atkinson's mainstream media career was effectively over, despite many black players saying that he wasn't racist. We would expect that Sinclair gets treated exactly the same way by the media companies as Ron Atkinson did, and that we don't get dual standards applied ... we'll wait and see.
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