FA chief executive James Johnson said he heard through the media.
“I woke up this morning like everyone else did to the news, and that is when Football Australia found out about this unsettling event,” he said.
“We are trying to get to the bottom of it at the moment. We have got our own questions that we’d like to know, we have got to find out what actually happened.
“But we also want to say that there is a process that is under way in the United Kingdom and that process needs to run its course.”
She’s probably keep it a little too close to the chest there.
In any case I will find this very funny if it’s come about because she’s abused them for being English. Though obviously it wont be that sadly.
A racist is a racist. Nice to see the entitled show their true colours & lash out like a tantrum toddler when the world doesn’t kowtow to their diva-ness.
She can go fuck herself like every other racist piece of shit in the world.
I mean she’s been charged… We don’t know what the circumstances are or anything else, or even if it’s proven to be true… She deserves a presumption of innocence until proven guilty
Hey so I don’t know if you missed this about history, but most of Britain’s (and Australia’s) wealth came from white people disposessing, enslaving and exploiting people of colour.
It’s not just about the history of the people. It’s about history of the language. It’s about the context and how that language has been used, historically.
These are just my opinions. If you think it’s all the same, racism is colour blind and if you’re a white person and you think you’re equally offended by being called a white bastard as a black person who has faced intergenerational abuse, exploitation or vilification over the colour of their skin being called a black bastard - then you do you, I guess.
Me personally, I am looking at the charge in this case and the reaction to it.
as far as I know it (from whats been reported and it is in the tabloids in the UK so taken with a shovel of salt)
she puked in cab
refused to pay for charges related to said puke in cab (it wasn’t a dispute over the fare but the cleaning charge)
-cops called
abused cop that responded based on skin colour
Not sure what is defendable.
If this was an indigenous NRL player in Double bay, who puked in a cab, refused to pay and then called the cop a “white bastard” I don’t know if the push for understanding or forgiveness would be quite so quick.
I’m not sure what to say here. Racism is obviously respective of history. What you’re saying is illogical.
Calling a black person the N word is in the context of slavery. This is bad. Calling a white person a slave owner is not the same.
Calling a black person a monkey or ape is to do with viewing black people less evolved / less intelligent (according to white supremacist ideology). This is bad. Calling a white person the very same words does not have this power.
I can understand what you’re getting at in that there’s prejudice going on here. Sam apparently insulted the copper & brought in skin colour. She’s acted like a brat. Probably is one. It’s hardly racism, though.
I’m pretty sure I heard that the case is being heard around this time next year. That’s how seriously they’re taking it over in the UK. I have a feeling this will blow over relatively quickly in the (sensible) media. The cookers will continue to have a field day, though.