It's the same platform that Boris Johnson had when he called us 'Self Pity City' in a 2004 Spectator article.
Trevor Phillips is a moron. 'I never knew Barkley was a brother...' FFS, what an utterly ridiculously crass, dismissive, irrelevant, stupid piece of verbiage to use. Coming from someone who previously claimed to fight racial discrimination and inequality too. There seems to be an ever increasing amount of massive elitist 'divs' (trying not to swear!) in the world these days, who feel they can talk crap about any group of people and then hide behind 'freedom of speech' when anyone objects to their deliberately provocative and offensive remarks.
The issue was never 'he was a brother' (awful term too by the way). The issue was use of gorilla imagery to racially embarrass someone that The Sun had already written about several years earlier of having Nigerian descent. McKenzie and The Sun lied in their apologies, with McKenzie's apology since exposed as completely meaningless since he wrote a follow up piece.
Phillips remarks about 'wallowing in self pity' isn't just completely absurd, it also misses the point, perhaps deliberately so. We OBJECT to the portrayal of anyone with any kind of wealth in Liverpool being drug dealers and jailed criminals. It's perpetuating tired stereotypes. It's not something we should just get over and ignore. Objecting to constant crap being talked about a city we love isn't 'wallowing in self pity', it's standing up for what we believe in, and pushing back against a moronic evil s*** who made a career out of trolling before it was even a thing and contributed to massive pain and suffering among ordinary people due to the many lies they perpetuated for decades.
