Worried For Clive
On a bus on Saturday, I sat next to a lady of about my age and we got talking about Russia’s illegal attack on Ukraine.
We then started talking about BBC’s news correspondent in Ukraine; Clive Myrie.
We were both worried about Clive.
This article on the BBC is entitled Racism In Russia: Stories Of Prejudice and it details a stories of a black student and others in the country. I also remember, when I went to see Ipswich play in Moscow, that a black fan told me he had been abused on the Moscow Metro.
I do wonder that if Kyiv falls, that Clive will not have an easy time.
Let’s hope Clive was born lucky!
Have Any Readers Of This Blog Faced a Situation, Where They Had To Win?
From the age of ten, I was seriously bullied at both Primary School and my Grammar School.
The bullying cumulated at the age of fourteen, when the worst of the school bullies broke my left humerus. It wasn’t one bit funny and even a couple of ,months ago, I ended up in hospital, because my humerus started playing up. I wrote about it in A Mysterious Attack On My Body.
The Usher At My wedding to C, who was a Metropolitan Police Constable did something positive.
He showed me how to break away from an attacker and hopefully do some quick damage.
Certainly his advice worked, when a thief in Naples tried to take my Rolex.
He was heavier than I am and I forced him to run off, after I heard something snap in his hand.
When I got back to Suffolk, I was seen by the locum at the GP’s surgery.
He was a large rugby-playing Scot called Donald from the Isle of Skye, who had played prop forward for the island.
My only injury was a few stitches in the top of my head and his diagnosis was that I’d live.
So far he has been proved right, but I do wonder, if the severe blow to the head contributed to my history of strokes since.
The long arm and methods of the Metropolitan Police can reach a long way!
As to my attacker, I wonder how his broken hand curbed his criminality.
I now am much more careful and haven’t suffered another attack despite visiting Naples and other dangerous places. since.
But everybody must be prepared for an attack. surprise or otherwise.
I wonder if [ast night those three footballers were expecting an attack from racists after the match as they had seen it so many times before.
So the worry made them miss the penalties.
Is Trump’s Cabinet More White And Male Than Any First Cabinet Since Reagan?
The title of this post is the same as the title on this article on the Politifact web site.
It surely says something about Trump’s mealy-mouthed response to the events of this weekend in Charlottesville.
Governor LePage Is Angry At Being Called A Racist
According to this article on the BBC, Governor LePage is angry at being called a racist. I’m angry too, at how such a man got to be the Governor of a US State.
The man and those who voted for him are an effing disgrace! And incredibly stupid too!
Racism In Moscow
One of the stories dominating the news on my trip north was the racial abuse of Yaya Toure in Moscow by so-called fans of CSKA Moscow.
I shall be looking forward to the fifth of November and the return fixture in Manchester.
Knowing Manchester City fans, they might come up with an unusual and probably humorous protest, that everybody, except racists, will applaud.
As my father often said, there’s nothing that bigots, fascists and bullies hate more than ridicule.
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