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Reporting discriminative language

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Kicked off a few times at some of the language used towards colored players. More often or not just get told to f off. I suppose if I heard it again this season kick it out would be the next course of action for them to get banned?
 

Dredd said:
Kicked off a few times at some of the language used towards colored players. More often or not just get told to f off. I suppose if I heard it again this season kick it out would be the next course of action for them to get banned?
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I would have reported it straight away, especially if I got a volley of abuse back
 
FifeMackem95 said:
Yeah..not on for me. We got the option, my family member who got abused refused to move and tbh it should never have been on the table as they were the victim. We were fortunate enough to not be on the end of the shite it sounds like you were.

Hope it all came to an end sharpish for you and there was no follow up from anyone.
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Club not really committed then.
 
Vore said:
If this is true it's canny shocking & sounds like the next appropriate step would be to report the club's lack of action to [email protected]
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My experience is not much point of contacting club. They just give the general email address to report racism - and we all know how good that is - kick it out manage to get their attention. Maybe something for RAWA to address again.
 
juliogray said:
Has anyone ever had experience of how our stewards handle this?
Last thing I would want is passion to go from SOL stands but had some bloke around us chatting complete nonsense all game about what he got up to at the weekend. Hardly watching the game.
Then he made a racist comment when one of their lads went down injured saying he looked like he’d been shot then said “all the b****ies do”
Should have said something myself but he was a good foot taller and wider than me 😆 (no excuse I know)
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Similar experience years ago. Probably like 2005 ish. I reported it then they placed someone at the next couple of matches and afterwards they never came back (to that seat anyway). I imagine there's probably established protocols for these things these days with clubs obliged to do something similar.
 
RTGAdmin said:
Probably a bit late now, but the advice from the club is:

If you hear or see any racist abuse at the Stadium of Light then you can report this in a number of ways. You can contact your nearest steward in confidence at the time of the incident, or should you wish, you can contact the club to report an incident via telephoning 0371 911 1973 or email [email protected]. Alternatively, you may contact Kick It Out on 0800 169 9414 by emailing [email protected], or by visiting
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A tricky one, unless the lad shouted it out, and it was heard by a number of different people, it's your word against his, don t think the club could do much about it . Love the "you can contact your nearest steward in confidence at the time of the incident" a) the wrongun would twig that you had grassed him, and react accordingly, and b) expecting our stewards to do anything :lol::lol:
 
Dredd said:
Kicked off a few times at some of the language used towards colored players. More often or not just get told to f off. I suppose if I heard it again this season kick it out would be the next course of action for them to get banned?
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News flash.
The use of “colored” (sic, unless you’re American!) might have once been a seemingly polite way to refer to non-White people but it went the way of “negro” a long time ago unless you’re in South Africa. (And yes I know what NAACP and UNCF stand for, they were named a long time ago too). It’s fine to say ‘Black’. I’m pretty sure every Black person I know would prefer to be referred to as Black than coloured, and since James Brown sang ‘Say It Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud’ in 1968 this is not exactly a new thing. I can’t remember the last time I heard ‘colo(u)red in America but Brits seem to want to hang onto it for some reason. Paradoxically “people of colo(u)r” seems to get a pass. I’ve never once come across the term ‘BAME’ in America, only on the SMB and I had to look it up!
 
Tex said:
News flash.
The use of “colored” (sic, unless you’re American!) might have once been a seemingly polite way to refer to non-White people but it went the way of “negro” a long time ago unless you’re in South Africa. (And yes I know what NAACP and UNCF stand for, they were named a long time ago too). It’s fine to say ‘Black’. I’m pretty sure every Black person I know would prefer to be referred to as Black than coloured, and since James Brown sang ‘Say It Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud’ in 1968 this is not exactly a new thing. I can’t remember the last time I heard ‘colo(u)red in America but Brits seem to want to hang onto it for some reason. Paradoxically “people of colo(u)r” seems to get a pass. I’ve never once come across the term ‘BAME’ in America, only on the SMB and I had to look it up!
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"People of colour" is a weird as fuck expression IMO. Apart from the fact that it's as inaccurate as "coloured" in that we all have some kind of colour to our skin, it also seems to lump black people, Asians of various regions and native Americans together as if they're some homogenous mass. My black friends find it bizarre and never use it.
 
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