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Ironduke
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Reading back through; apparently today John Terry was told repeatedly by the judge to speak up in court.
I recall how awful it was to have to repeat bad language or retell bad behaviour in front of a dissaproving teacher.
JT(mumbles) 'and then I called him a black cunt, Sir'
Judge 'You said what?'
JT 'ahem- I called him a black cunt Sir'
Judge 'Pardon?'
JT 'err...Black Cunt sir'
Judge 'I say speak up there, we can't hear you'
JT 'I said BLACK CUNT SIR' (echoing around silent court room)
Thor
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Judge: 'Mr. Terry, do you have anything to say in your defence?’
Terry (mumbling): ‘Fuck all.’
Judge to Brief: ‘What did your client say?’
Brief: ‘He said,‘fuck all,’ M’lud.’
Judge (to himself): 'I must be going deaf; I was sure he said something.’
© J. Mortimer.
beau-jolly
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KGA6 makes some very good points. Its like black is a bad thing.
I can't help thinking of my daughter when she was about 5. She described her friend in minute detail but I couldn't work out who she was talking about. It did not occur to her to mention her friend was black. To me this was the stand-out feature and I would have known immediately which friend she meant. To Rosie(light skinned and blonde)the difference didn't appear to register. She described the colour of her friend's favourite clothes. Had she already been warned not to mention skin colour or was she genuinely blind to the difference?
Similarily a friend was trying to describe a girl he thought I knew. At no point did it occur to him to mention that she had only one leg.
Ironduke
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My parents tell me I did something similar at the same age- the boy in the red jumper etc, when to them he was the only black boy in the playground.
They similarly pondered whether their son was thick, or actually race doesn't register at that age.
To be fair, they did come down on the former conclusion though.
The All New Jeni B
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I think that as children, we don't register the 'difference' and nor should we.
It's only as we get older and encounter other peoples prejudices that we learn to see that at something worthy of mention.
Because my primary school was near Dundee Uni, we frequently had the children of short-term Professors as class-mates. Many of those children were 'different' to us in some way: colour, accent, etc, but they were to us, just new kids.
The first time I became aware of race or colour being something different was when an Asian boy stole my Multi-Coloured Swap Shop scarf and then called me a "White shite" for telling on him.
Ironduke
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Interesting that I described 'red jumper' but not 'brown face' I think. My junior schooling in Hammersmith had all sorts of races and that did not matter in the slightest to anyone; it was then rather a shock to go to secondary school and hear 'Trigger,trigger,trigger, Shoot that n*gger' chanted in the playground.
Still, the teachers were a rough lot.
beau-jolly
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I may have mentioned this before.
My boarding school was all white so one younger lad was nominated as black and systematically bullied and abused for years with violence and racist abuse about his thick lips and curly hair even though he had straight blonde hair. In retrospect it was sureal. God knows what would have happened to a real er..a real.. one of ..um you know.
I met him years later and he was a marine and built like a brick shit house. He could have easily torn my head off if he had wished but happily he was either charmingly forgiving or had a mental block.
Ironduke
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I suggest rather than replicate the foul language on here (fun, and slightly naughty though it is t do!) we can solve the issue of rude word repetition (and hopefully thereby rescue Jeni B's career) by the simple expedience of the google English-Latin translator.
...and the accused did say, m'lud: 'Nigrum Volvere', but in an ironical, sarcastic repetition.
EVERYTHING looks more official and important in Latin.
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