I have tried not to get entrenched in this dialogue as I tend to comment on everything pertaining to race. The anti-racists are in my book correct as they would be and the racists as always show their true colours . Same individuals as always on both camps. Just for the record I stand firmly with the anti-racists. What really pisses me off is those who castigate those who flag up inappropriate bigoted behaviour ! Racism in any form is wrong and never funny or amusing. The racist comment at the match which launched this thread should really have been addressed at the match.
Just a thought on the Barbary pirates who dabbled in slavery around the med were a mixed bag of moors, Arabs and Mediterranean Europeans. In fact an infamous Barbary pirate was an Englishman and Muslim convert I believe was called John Bird, of whom the Jack Sparrow character was based.
There is no comparison with the enslavement of African people and the transatlantic slave trade. Whereby some 15 million people over a 400 year period were taken against their will across the water in the most inhumane conditions we could never ever imagine. Treated as commodities and stripped of their identities and culture , brutalised and abused and contributing to the rise of capitalism as we know it today . Given this as a backdrop , throwing the man a banana is not terribly funny....