Black anti-racist caught out being racist in Britain



Another instance of how blacks tend to hate Chinese and Indians because of their superior achievements. In British usage, "Asian" (as below) usually means Indian.

At least the Brits took the offender to court. In America it seems that blacks can be as racist as they like without any significant comeback at all. They can say "N*gger" a thousand times a day with no problem -- but woe betide a white who uses that word.

"Calling someone a "coconut" might sound harmless but it has landed one woman with a criminal conviction.

Councillor Shirley Brown [above] has been at the heart of Bristol's multi-cultural community for 15 years, but in February 2009 she found herself at the centre of an unintended controversy.

While taking part in a debate in the city council she called a female Asian councillor, Jay Jethwa, a "coconut". The word is used to describe someone who is brown on the outside, but "white" on the inside. In other words, someone who is said to have disregarded their cultural roots.

Brown used the word in a debate about the funding of black and ethnic groups in the city, and was upset that Ms Jethwa was advocating cuts.

Although she apologised a few days after the comment, and on several occasions, the matter went to a local and then a national standards hearing.

Brown was reprimanded, briefly suspended from the council and then reinstated. But months later the case escalated when she was charged under the Public Order Act with using "threatening, abusive or insulting words, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress". It's a serious charge which comes with the threat of a criminal record...

On Monday Brown was convicted, given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay costs.

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As a white person I am offended that it is regarded as an insult to say that someone is white in some way.

In the boy's yarns that I read back in the '50s, the expression, "That's very white of you" was high praise. I guess that shows what evil racists our grandparents were. The fact that those same grandparents destroyed Nazism doesn't count, of course.

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