[topboy]

Of course I know where it comes from, I'm a fully paid up member of the party! (Yes, I'm black and proud of it)

I just wanted to open up the debate and say, as a black man in the U.K., I am able to distinguish between a racial slur and a comment meant in jest.

It may not be the brightest thing to have said - but it wasn't meant to be derogatory or demeaning.

I fully understand BB's nervousness after the Shilpa event and also C4 and OfCom are watching - but the reaction was simply out of context to the spirit of the event.

BB could have done far more in education terms by showing Emily being repremanded and give some form of punishment (probably as big a punishment as anyone has ever recieved) than by not showing it and simple stiring the racial tension with guesswork and inaccuarate accounts of what might and might not have happened.

Discuss!