Several years ago, I punched a friend, Marc… I punched him, and said (something like), “don’t ever do that. Not when I’m around, and even when I am not.”
“No, no. Wait,” he said. “I am gay.” Marc had referred to someone as a “flaming faggot”. Sure, I was being a bit of a twat, but I was sincere. We were in London. It was the early 1990s, and I had over the years become (very) finely tuned to detect bigotry.
Fast forward a few months later. I am at Highbury (what was once the most sacred place in football don’t @me), we shouted abuse at Tottenham Hotspur fans. After the match, we went down the Nag’s Head for a pint. I overheard someone at a table refer to Spurs as those “@#$%&$% Yids”. I got back on my high horse, but a mate held me back: “No, that’s their nickname. Spurs call themselves ‘Yids’”. After that, I stopped hurling abuse (mainly football banter) at Spurs, because it just felt wrong to harangue a group of “Yids”.
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So sprengten britische Bomber 1943 die Möhnestaumauer
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Former copâs deathbed confession reveals his role in assassinating Malcolm X
Former copâs deathbed confession reveals his role in assassinating Malcolm X
February 28, 2021
At a press conference on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, almost 56 years to the day of Malcolm Xâs assassination, his daughters came together with their attorney, Ben Crump, to read aloud a deathbed ânon-confessionâ from Ray Wood, an infiltrator of various parts of the Black liberation movement, that states his supposed âcoercionâ by the FBI to murder the great leader and human rights fighter Malcolm X. Crump along with many other advocates are now calling for a reopening of the investigation into Malcolm Xâs assassination. â Photo: National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)