Sol Campbell: "I would've been England captain for 10 years if I was white"

[Diogenes the Cynic]

The truly sad thing is that there are more people in slavery now than at any other point in history

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/

The worst places for it are quite an eye opener.

Not sure how accurate that link is, I couldn't find Ronaldo on it anywhere.

 

[Azzurri]

Let's just say it, some black people (quite a lot) have a huge chip on their shoulders and care about race much more than most white people. Their grandfathers (who probably have reason to be a bit peeved) tend to be much less bitter and 'victimised'. For whatever reason this feeling of victimisation has manifested itself in the younger generation, most of the time obsessed with things like African and Jamaican gang culture, and we see things like the London riots and a genuine feeling that white people are some sort of enemy or at least not a friend. People like sol Campbell and the society of black lawyers etc do nothing but validate this feeling by playing some sort of 'race card' most of the time causing the rest of society to rush around in horror at the thought that someone might be offended. Thankfully with this Campbell episode that hasn't been the case- yet. In my opinion, black people as much as white people have a responsibility to not take someone's race into account and continue with the vastly improved race relations over the last 20 years.

Wonder why.

 

[anton66]

Even John Barnes, probably the most racially abused player in British football disagrees with Sol Campells claims. On up side you've sold hundreds more of your book and you will also be fast tracked by itv4 to be one of their football pundits.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I've heard Sol went into Subway today and ordered a meatball sub

He only had 6 meatballs on his sub but the white guy next to him had 7

He's currently adding a new chapter to his book about why Subway are institutionally racist

Some, all or none of this is true

 

[UFO]

Let's just say it, some black people (quite a lot) have a huge chip on their shoulders and care about race much more than most white people. Their grandfathers (who probably have reason to be a bit peeved) tend to be much less bitter and 'victimised'. For whatever reason this feeling of victimisation has manifested itself in the younger generation, most of the time obsessed with things like African and Jamaican gang culture, and we see things like the London riots and a genuine feeling that white people are some sort of enemy or at least not a friend. People like sol Campbell and the society of black lawyers etc do nothing but validate this feeling by playing some sort of 'race card' most of the time causing the rest of society to rush around in horror at the thought that someone might be offended. Thankfully with this Campbell episode that hasn't been the case- yet. In my opinion, black people as much as white people have a responsibility to not take someone's race into account and continue with the vastly improved race relations over the last 20 years.

Agree with every word. Brilliant post.