Racism is Monkey Business
Thought that the following was an interesting article.
‘Monkey’ jibe considered racist; ‘donkey’ apparently not
Ah, cricket. A world away from the creation/evolution debate, right?
Actually, on the basis of recent events reported widely in the news media of the world’s cricket-playing nations, I would argue otherwise. And these events have now culminated in the International Cricket Council (ICC), for the first time ever, banning a player for ‘racial abuse’.
That player is India’s off-spinner Harbhajan Singh. During the just-completed five-day Test Match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia’s captain Ricky Ponting lodged a formal complaint with umpires Steve Bucknor (West Indies) and Mark Benson (England). He reported to them that Harbhajan had called Australia’s all-rounder Andrew Symonds a ‘monkey’.
Symonds ‘is of Caribbean descent’ and is ‘the only black member of the Australian team’.
