Tag Archives: racism

This morning.

Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2.

Staff from the Irish Network Against Racism joined with cast and crew from Disney’s The Lion King and Stephen Faloon (white beard), Manager at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre to show their support for INAR’s Love Not Hate campaign. Some of the cast  were subjected to racist and homophobic abuse after a performance on January 28.

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Stills from the BBC’s documentary Black Power: A British Story of Resistance’ (2021)

Come Here To Me writes:

BBC documentary showing ‘No Coloured, No Irish’ handmade sign in footage (13 mins) from 1960s. Aware that there has been discussion about an apparent lack of contemporary photographs of such signs…

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (BBC)

The beautiful game.

Stoke winger James McClean shares Instagram death threat just months after claiming he was the most abused star in England (MailOnline)

Previously: James McClean on Broadsheet

A letter from Roger Casements GAA Coventry to GAA HQ. Currently racial abuse in the GAA is seen as a Category IV offence – a minimum of 8 weeks suspension – whereas threatening language towards a referee is a Category V offence – receiving a minimum of 12 weeks suspension in all codes and at all levels

This morning/afternoon.

Neil Webb writes:

Roger Casements GAA Coventry are attempting to get the GAA to change their punishment and discipline process for racial abuse.

[Currently racial abuse in the GAA is seen as a Category IV offence whereas threatening language towards a referee is a Category V offence – receiving a minimum of 12 weeks suspension in all codes and at all levels.]

We think in this day and age it is unacceptable that the GAA takes such a lenient line on racism with a minimum of a mere 8 weeks considered appropriate punishment for such a disgusting and heinous act.

Petition here

Roger Casements GAA Coventry

From top: Hot Press 2019 Annual; instagram post from 2017

 

…Yesterday, I read many powerful testimonies about the impact of racism, both overt and casual. It is something that has no place in any civilised society and I have no hesitation in condemning it in every respect. Unequivocally, black lives, and how they are lived, whether in Ireland or across the world, matter deeply. Never for a second, in my entire life, have I felt anything different.

However, on the basis of the feelings of genuine hurt it has aroused, then I clearly got it wrong in the original opinion piece – for which I apologise.

In particular, the article – and the Hot Press cover story on [Ringsend rap duo] Versatile back in 2018 – were both published long before a photo was brought to our attention of a member of Versatile at a party dressed in blackface, alongside someone clearly posing as Eazy-E of NWA – the photo was taken before they started to become a phenomenon.

Whatever way you look at it, the photograph puts accusations of racism in Versatile’s lyrics into a very different light. Clearly they do have a case to answer.

If we been aware of that photograph, would my opinion piece have been written in the same way in 2019? No.

Stuart Clark, deputy editor of Hot Press [more at link below]

Versatile: An Apology by Stuart Clark (Hot Press)

Versatile: Are They Racist And Misogynistic? (Hot Press, August 9, 2019)

Previously: Straight Outta Conleth’s