What if Joe Calzaghe claimed he would never lose to a black man

[-CANE-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates

read and learn

Piracy is crazy and still goes on today. I do a lot of scuba diving and in africa around kenya and such you have to be very careful. And around China it's even worse. Obviously they are not getting people to sell as ****** but they are robbing many people.

[col Blake]

asylum seekers are not economic migrants, there should always be a place for people who are genuinlly fleeing certain death, but failed asylum seekers should be sent back, appeals take far to long and then the disappear before they are due to leave, one guaranteed reason that lets you stay is if you say you are a phag, that means most of the yanks on here are safe

[Franko]

I wonder what would have happened. Would there be more of an outcry?
I think he would probably have a lawsuit on his hands by now.

Race relations would have been all over Calzaghe like the proverbial rash if he'd have made a racist comment towards Hopkins. Britain simply doesn't accept racism, but whether people like it or not, racism towards a white person tends to get brushed under the carpet a lot. If Joe Calzaghe had said, 'I'll never lose to a black man!' he'd have been vilified in Britain and it would have made the front page on the newspapers, and although what Hopkins said certainly isn't acceptable, the vilification clearly isn't the same. I'm most definitely against Racism of any form, and what Hopkins said was Racist, tongue in cheek or not.

[-CANE-]

Race relations would have been all over Calzaghe like the proverbial rash if he'd have made a racist comment towards Hopkins. Britain simply doesn't accept racism, but whether people like it or not, racism towards a white person tends to get brushed under the carpet a lot. If Joe Calzaghe had said, 'I'll never lose to a black man!' he'd have been vilified in Britain and it would have made the front page on the newspapers, and although what Hopkins said certainly isn't acceptable, the vilification clearly isn't the same. I'm most definitely against Racism of any form, and what Hopkins said was Racist, tongue in cheek or not.

Totally agree 100%

[The Hammer]

Joe Calzaghe has too much class to ever make a racist statement like Hopkins did.