'kick It Out' Tell Hartlepool To Banned Fans

[Gromit]

Hartlepool United fans have planned a fancy dress 'Bob Marley' theme for their last game of the season. Fans will don dreadlock wigs and rata colours.
This follows a similar last day dress up last year when hundreds of fans watched the final game dressed as Smurfs.

However, 'Kick it Out' the anti racism in football campaigners have told Hartlepool fans that they mustn't 'blacken up' for the part. And have insisted that any fans arriving that are blackened up, be refused admittance to the ground.

Are 'Kick it Out' right to insist on such a ban?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/24/hartlepool-fans-bob-marley-fancy-dress-carlisle-united

[sandyRoe]

Some will undoubtedly say it's 'political correctness gone mad'. I'd disagree. It's acknowledging the sensibilities of minorities.

[douglas9401]

Kick It Out have every right to state their point of view but that's where their influence regarding the admission of fans ends.
Will someone just back from Tenerife with a deep tan be scrubbed by enforcers to ensure they're not racist?

[Gromit]

Hartlepool United fans 'blued up' last season...

http://storage9.gear3rd.com/files/thumbs/2014/04/27/13985830806c249-original-1.jpg

[icecreamicecream]

Are any minorties actually offended ,Sandy or isit just you,gromit and "kick it out" middle class guilt kicking in?

[bazwillrun]

"It's acknowledging the sensibilities of minorities."

no its not, its the sensibilities of the PC mob that belong to the church of the perpetually offended...

[sandyRoe]

So, if fans took to making monkey noises when a black player touched the ball would it be considered just a bit of harmless fun?

[bazwillrun]

totally irelevant...typical leftie distorting things

[Ellipsis]

Reminiscent of a couple of recent-ish cases:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1388277.html
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1388584.html

I'll re-post my response from the second thread above (page 8) ...

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MO Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall "whiting up" in "Coming To America" is the funniest part of the film. I understand that other white people may find it offensive, but this white person would find it objectionable if the opinions of other white people were allowed to spoil his enjoyment of films like that.

When it comes to "blacking up", the problem is there's a history associated with it. If, nowadays, the blacking up is in the same spirit as the whiting up above then I don't see a problem with it; if it's harking back to the historical mockery then there is a problem, obviously. If all blacking up is verboten because of the history, then that history lives on in creating division and tension; it has to be allowed in the right context.

[sir.prize]

sandy - why do you always dodge the issue? This thread has nothing at all to do with monkeys!

[icecreamicecream]

God spare us from rich,white,middle class "Islingtonistas" taking umbrage with every little petty thing under the sun.The people who should be offended by this i.e. the non-whites , don't give a *** one way or another.

[trt]

It was a wind up, it wont happen.

[Gromit]

Icey,

Who said I was offended?

[anotheoldgit]

Perhaps they should have told Sol Campbell?

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/455/Sol_Campbell.jpg

[vulcan42]

Is it politically incorrect to assume that all minorities are offended by everything that relates to them?

[icecreamicecream]

Welcome to the ranks of us who don't find this type of behaviour offensive,then Groms.It might be childish and inane,but certainly not offensive.

[anotheoldgit]

One must ask "why choose a Bob Marley themed fancy-dress day"?

[icecreamicecream]

...and one might ask"why not"?

[Gromit]

The very fact that hundreds of football fans want to dress up as a black icon on their fun day says more about their diversity and non racial outlook, than any poxy kick it out T shirt.

A great example of inclusiveness. Sadly the humourless kick it out campaigners have shot themselves in the foot.8

[Broseph]

Well if you're going to use actual black paint to black up and wear a funny wig to appear hilarious then yes it is racist but if you're going to spend thousands on makeup and professional movie latex and hair to replicate Bob Marley then you should be allowed to do it but then who would?

A cheap and inoffensive way to do this is to simply print this

http://www.eslthemes.com/special_days/halloween/masks/famous/images/11_marley.gif

and put string around it making an effective and non racist way to attend. Agree?

[sandyRoe]

the eyes seem unnaturally white ^