After 5 days in court and heaven only knows how much wasted effort and money, one footballer, John Terry, has been found 'not guilty' of using rude words against another footballer, Anton Ferdinand.
That this nonsense ever got as far as a court says more than I ever could about the insanity of English law in these days of political correctness. Had both Terry and Ferdinand been white, the case would never have been brought; indeed, had Ferdinand been a white welshman whom Terry had been accused of calling a 'taffy sheep-shagger', it would not have come to court. Had Ferdinand been Scottish and Terry had called him a 'tight, haggis-eating jock' it would not have come to court.
So-called racist offences only occur when one of the parties, almost always the supposedly offended against, is coloured; this itself is clearly nonsensical and throws our law into disrepute. Making reference to 'garlic eating frogs' or 'sausage eating krauts' brings down little if any rebuke, while individual words such as 'paki', 'nigger' or even 'black' bring down the most draconian retribution.
No one should condone genuinely offensive behaviour but the extra emphasis placed on supposed offences committed by whites upon blacks is unnecessary, unfair and divisive. In short, it is wrong and should stop.
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