The national team is seen to be representative of the culture that it comes from, however in the case of Asian footballers we have none in the current national team... and the only player of Asian origin to play for England was Frank Soo who played during the war... even though Asian people make up 7% of the British population... but anyway this post is not about the genetic make-up of the England team ... it is in fact about John George Terry...
He's been charged over the years with assault and proven innocent, parked his car in a disabled bay and accused of sleeping with his teammates girlfriend ... and he has not been tarred by any of it..,
Then he called Anton Ferdinand a "fucking black cunt". I have seen countless times f****** black c*** written in the papers, but lets not mince our words here cause the word I find most offensive is the one that they have left in... His defense is that he was asking Mr Ferdinand if he had thought he'd called him a "fucking black cunt", which seems about as plausible as Nicholas Cage winning an Oscar Because the court could not establish the tone of Terry's voice he was again acquitted...
The English FA then tried Mr Terry and basically dismissed his defense as a load of bollocks and decided that the term 'fucking black cunt' had been used by way of an insult... so lets look at this... he used the term including the word 'black' to describe Mr Ferdinand's skin colour as way of an insult... however they did say that while he had racial abused Anton, he was not in fact a racist...
He was given a four match ban, a fine and sent on his way... and the fact he has been declared 'not a racist' means there is nothing to stop him from returning to play for England or evening managing a team in the premier league... This is in stark contrast to Luis Suarez who speaks Spanish calling a Frenchman 'negro' - which means black in Spanish and is commonly used in South America as a way of describing someone... After living in South America I can say that some of the things I heard felt pretty racist - for example to call some negro in Britain would be highly fucking offensive, but in Brazil if you called someone Preto (or black in Portuguese) this is very upsetting and racist for Brazilian people... Luis came from Uruguay and did not understand the language or the culture - I have corrected people, who's first language is not English, in the past who think that it is acceptable to call someone 'nigger' because they heard it in a rap song. These people simply do not know the difference... Luis however was given an 8 match ban....
John Terry did know the culture, he speaks English as a first language... he knows that the word black is offensive. If Anton was indeed being an idiot he might have been worthy of being called a fucking cunt, or a dickhead but it had nothing to do with the colour of his skin... I have met good people and pricks from all nationalities and ethnicities, but it has had nothing to do with where the are from... some people we simply don't like and when I choose to tell people they annoy me I don't feel the need to reference if they are white, black or green... it is inconsequential... to do this I feel would be racist - and I am not a racist person.
John Terry did do this and he too apparently is not racist - it's just his actions were a bit racist that day... if the circus that is football was truly representative of British society does this mean we would see criminals using the defense 'I'm not a rapist, I was just a bit rapey that day' or 'I'm not a murderer, but what I did was a bit stabby'. This idea that I'm not racist but one person is a 'fucking black cunt' seems to come straight from the Nick Griffin school of thinking when he called a pair of people Fenians, but does not mean it to imply to every Catholic...
Everyone has prejudices - the key to being a good person is not to be blinded by them and to give everyone an equal chance.
@roywoodhouse
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