What's the best way to deal with a racist nutter?

[sp1814]

a) Hurl abuse back?
b) Ignore him?
c) Write about it on Twitter?

http://www.dailymail....k-London-airport.html

Personally, I think he deserved an open-handed slap in the mouth, but that would've just escalated the situation. Good on Kelis for keeping her cool - what would YOU have done?

[steg]

called her a slave lol, i would of chopped his head off for that;)

[albaqwerty]

She is in London 'all of the time' yeah.

She isn't a racist but says they have a 'black' president.

I don't know who she is or her music, but I would like to think I would not have stood idly by especially when she had her young child with her.

[askyourgran]

I afraid to say I would have taken the bait and said something hurtful about his appearance or his ability to do his job........... very loudly. She did well not to react to him.

[emmie]

ignore the bstard.

[BrainsTracy]

No excuse for the tirade but queue jumping?? Sorry that's up there with genocide on some peoples lists. Queueing is really very simple, you join them at the back, not too difficult is it?

[anotheoldgit]

Oh no not another "He called me names which offended me"

Notice the story was taken from SP's hateful racist right-wing paper, The Daily Mail.

When are some going to take on insults and abuse that we all have to learn to take on in life without it ever reaching the newspapers?

For example SP uses the words 'Racist Nutter' and Kelis described the offender as ''red-faced sweaty man, also saying I use the word man loosely here'.

she further went on to say.

/// We all no (sic) I'm no saint, so I retaliated. Not the way I wanted to or how that pig deserved./// (notice that abusive term 'Pig')

She apparently had been queue jumping, no excuse I suppose for insulting the women, but she was more lucky than the white guy who was hit and killed by a black guy whose girlfriend had accused the man of queue jumping a supermarket queue.

http://www.dailymail....ng-row-freed-year.htm

[Kromovaracun]

AOG: You are unbelievable.

[sp1814]

housemouse - tell me about it. Notice how the alleged 'queue jumping' (not verified anywhere) in the eyes of some justifies a racist outburst.

Can you imagine if say, someone in a wheelchair had pushed into a queue - would it be acceptable to start screaming...well, you know what 'certain people' would start shouting.

Stunning how some can find any reason for racism.

[Craftypig]

I kind of thought she had a good argument until she started saying that this country was behind with racism, you cannot look at a person from an ethinic minority in the wrong way without being labeled a racist. sound's to me like another "I'm a celbrity" rant.

[boxtops]

It would be nice to say that one could treat the comments with the contempt they deserve - the man showed himself up, not her - but I really can't see the point of banging on about it on Twitter (come to think of it, I can't see the point of Twitter anyway, though...)

[DrFilth]

>>housemouse
how far back is your link from oldgit - apparently so old it does not show
on DM website <<

it is still on


http://www.dailymail....g-row-freed-year.html

[sp1814]

Ironically - the incident in the link was sparked off not by the young black man - but the White woman. If she had kept her cool, like Kelis, and not sought retaliation, that would've been the end of the matter.

[sp1814]

Boxtops - yeah, I kinda agree with your comment about Twitter. I suppose she wanted to get it off her chest.

What would've been a better move would've been her taking a snap of him on her cameraphone and posting something cheeky along the lines of "Watch out for this man - he seems to think it's still 1820, and he's a landowner in Atlanta'.

[sp1814]

Craftypig

"you cannot look at a person from an ethinic minority in the wrong way without being labeled a racist"

But in this situation, don't you think that Kelis was right to denounce this chap as a racist?

I mean, what more could he have done? Donned a pointed white hood? made monkey noises?

I agree that there are situations where people are denounced a racists unfairly - but we have to draw the line somewhere, and I believe this chap seriously crossed it.

[DrFilth]

sp1814 bit dodgy filming inside the airport without permission

[DTCwordfan]

I am not condoning what the guy said or the officer's remarks, but I wonder what she said to him when he accused her of queue jumping - which I suspect may not have been a "racist" comment to begin with...........I bet it escalated and as they say, "it takes two to tango"

[DrFilth]

there is something wrong with this story
>> American singer Kelis was the subject of racial hostility by a Brit after queue jumping whilst travelling back from this weekend's Bestival.


Kelis
Kelis
The 'Bossy' singer, has explained on Twitter, (here), that she was going through passport control, after her flight out of the UK with her son when she was taunted by racial abuse from an Englishman after angering him for queue jumping, and that none of the passengers around her reacted to it.

Kelis explains, "We just landed and I had the midget with me. we get in the passport control line and apparently p**sed this one man off cause he thought I cut the line. Which wouldn't be far fetched of me but this time I actually didn't (not entirely anyway)..."

"This fat red faced sweaty 'man' (I use the word man loosely here) started calling me a slave and told me to call him sir and how I was probably a disgusting Nigerian. He called me kunta kinte and ranted and raved some more. The man behind the passport desk laughed, shook his in agreement I guess, and said "kunta kinte". All the while the entire line full of people I just sat on a plane with for almost 3hours, over 50 people said nothing. I mean literally nothing. Didn't flinch. We all no I'm no saint, so I retaliated. Not the way I wanted to or how that pig deserved." <<

>> that she was going through passport control, after her flight out of the UK <,

>> All the while the entire line full of people I just sat on a plane with for almost 3hours, over 50 people said nothing.<<

>> she had just landed at London airport << from another report