howay man, he's called a black lad a monkey ffs.
My kids are mixed race, I call them cheeky monkies all the time. I’ve not read the full findings so if he said that ad verbatim then it’s clear. From my understanding he didn’t call them monkies, but alluded they should be good at climbing given their race/nationality. It’s obvious racial in context, but I’d refrain from calling him out as a rabid racist because for me as such a difficult subject covering many layers, it can be equally damaging to label everything and everyone a racist based on vernacular (in or out of context if that’s even possible?) as the deliberate use of racism that demonstrably prejudices the equality of rights, freedoms and fairness legally or otherwise of someone based on skin colour, race or ethnicity.
I’m not defending him, but the line between what Beardsley said is a lot closer (for my simple interpretation anyway) to the bone of contention raised by issues when certain vernacular is directed derogotary towards females or gay people. I’m guilty of calling someone out as a puff in a derogotary way based on my inner prejudices, not towards gay people as such, but preconceived stereotypes of gay people. In that sense I can see why someone like Beardsley would turn to a black kid at Go Ape and say howay, you should be good at this. It’s not acceptable and not right full stop. But it’s probably understandable in a back to front upside down way of looking at it.
What if Beardsley said to a black kid at KFC, howay you should be happy eating a bucket of chicken? I’ve read many a time racial vernacular meant in jest directed at say Mike for example or Oldtype. Used in a different context, in a different environment, whose to say such vernacular isn’t racist and highly offensive? But does that mean that person using such vernacular is racist?
I guarantee all the young kids at Newcastle under Beardsley will have used racially context vernacular not in a racist way towards one another, but in a way more of stereotype or preconceived racial profiles.
What is so bad and wrong with Beardsley IMO is not such much the racial aspect, but the bullying, which he didn’t seem to discriminate who he targeted over. As an adult employed to supervise kids and young adults, regardless of any anti racial or bullying discrimination policy, he is responsible for the protection of everyone in his supervision and to treat everyone equally and fair as human beings, as young people. Equality of race, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, nationality, shouldn’t even be considered, do that and there will never be any issues, we are a long way off that though.
The underlying concern of course is Beardsley is the watered down low alcohol version of the 100% proof cocktail mix the media got drunk on over Sterling in the summer of last year and ideally, he needs to be made a real example of. But not in a way that locks him up for good and throws away the key held in racists jail because I’d like to think the vast majority of people like him especially in England are not racist and more exposure to the opposite race for example, sexually and socially especially and to cultural differences even as far as cuisine, visiting others’ countries and yes living next door to each other, a lot of racial barriers will collapse where vernacular used by Beardsley won’t be such a bad thing to be of any significant concern to worry anyone, regardless of race or whatever.
Have a read again, not only are you wrong and some points absolutely absurd (KFC) you are misinformed
