[Miranda123]

Originally Posted by DigitalSid

Do I think he hates or dislike other races, no, do I think he's prejudiced towards and stereotypes them, yes.

I think its an age thing, both my parents saw all races in a stereotypical way, it was the way things were in their era's

In fact I grew up in the 70's and things were the same then

The weird thing was that both my parents were Irish and had suffered the same kind of racism when they came here, but still saw black people as 'different'

What you have to remember is that when people like Ron were young, large scale immigration was still pretty new, and all those different cultures felt even more alien before the internet, when most people knew very little about the world

One of the insults people would hurl at black people when I was a child, would be to call them 'spear chuckers', understandable perhaps, if the only black people you see en masse is in a Zulu film or Tarzan

When my mum came here in 1939, and walked out of Paddington Station, she saw her first ever black man, wearing a white suit and tap dancing for money, and she stood there for ages watching him cause she had heard about black people but wasnt sure whether it was true or not!!

I know that he worked with a lot of young black players who still say nice things about him, so maybe he's not so bad after all

Having said all that, I dont think he's gonna be in the running for winner