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Old 03-02-2007, 03:54 PM #16
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Now I thought John McCririck was just an offensive old man, but that was a very interesting interview and he makes some very good points, who knew he was so clued up!

I agree that there is allot of subtle racism in British society but I would say that allot of it (Danielle included) comes from ignorance and just doubting the unknown. I think Danielle has had a reasonably sheltered upbringing and the off the cuff comments are more through not knowing and not understanding more than out and out racism.

I think Shilpa was picked on and bullied by Jade but Danielle's mistake was firstly going along with the pack, (which many girls would have done) and secondly speaking without first thinking and as a result you get some pretty crude comments.

John admits that at the beginning everyone took a liking to Danielle and quite a few thought she would win, now I think the person we saw at the beginning and to be fair throughout the show was the way she is, and what amounted to a few minutes of the three weeks in the house were some stupid and silly comments that she shouldn't have said.

But now all we remember are those few minutes and have forgotten the rest of the three weeks in which she was entertaining and a great housmate.

I can guarantee we have all had moments in our lives where we really said things that were stupid and wrong and that we wished we could have taken back, that's life, we say sorry, and we LEARN from what happened.

This is a key thing here, I think many of us would have seen how easy it is to go along with the pack and not to be the one to stand up and say this isn't right, so if we can learn from the uncomfortable scenes in CBB then this has been a positive outcome of a negative situation.

Lets try to stay positive hey?

I may risk sounding like Jermaine but hate just breeds hate and is not a healthy emotion.

Lets start understanding and learning?
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