ITV forced to apologise.

I know it was bad but I think it was a slip of the tongue and no harm was meant by it and I doubt he meant to say anything racist.

 

I don't think it was a racist statement at all.

Javelin throwers are often termed as 'spear chuckers' - the fact that Tessa Sanderson is black ought to be irrelevant.

If people didn't keep mentioning black and white the issue would fade. Stupid things like......

The Black Police Association
'Lewis Hamilton the first black man to win the F1 championship'
'Barack Obama the first black president'

The fact that Hamilton is black isn't important at all, but people tread on eggshells around racist issues instead of just acting normally. Half the time, the alleged victim of racist abuse doesn't really care - it is the person who is alleged to have said racist remarks that ends up in bother. Often for no apparent reason.

 

This is absolutely ridiculous. The term is used as a slang term for a javelin thrower, it has nothing to do with race. What sort of far left PC society has the UK become? This just shows that people are looking to be offended, or more saliently that certain people are looking to find things that prove an agenda and prove offence when there is no agenda and no offence meant.

 

Suits ITV4's Partridgesque production that Rosenthal should accidentally use a racist term.

For the Froch fight they should have a short film about Dale Winton's charity work raising money for under priviledged youths by working on the cadbury's production line boxing up these..

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...then cut back to Rosenthal for his comment on the film.

 

Agree, most the time its do gooders (mainly white housewives who have nothing better to do) who bring it up, if everyone would stop seeing colour as so important and just saw people then things would be better

 

this country is going mad.

 

:-( Paranoia.

 

I thought he was talking about her sexual exploits back in her prime.

 

To be honest, if I called a black person a spear chucker I would apologize also. Ok, it was a slip of the tounge, he forgot to engage his brain, it wasn't malicious.. and that is obvious to everyone including Tessa Sanderson I'm sure, but it is still polite and correct to apologize, why some of you seem to be outraged by this fact I don't know.

 

I bet that not one of the people who rang/wrote was black......




p.s. I'm black an just thought it was extremely funny

 

What the **** is that? atsch

I don't understand how its racist. I'm dumbfounded.

 

Right, because ignoring issues makes them go away. The Black Police Association is there to monitor important issues, like are black people being treated fairly in the police force I'm assuming, why is this a bad thing? Racism and discrimination exsist, if you don't do something about it, then it continues to exist and grow surely? The Barack Obama thing, Jesus, in a country where black people were brutalized and marginalized for centuries, don't you think the first black president is a signifcant event in history? some kind of redemption? a turning point even, a symbol that things are changing and your future isn't infalibly linked to your ethnicty, like it has been, for a lot of people, for many years...

 

It's not "racist" it is a racist term though, it wasn't a malicious thing to say, just a silly thing, and he apologiszed, no harm done, end of story IMO.

 

:yep I was watching it with my girlfriend who is black and she didn't even notice anything he had said was a bit dodgy, went right over her head, bless