Can Racism be justified?
I return to that divisive subject of racism, once again breaking my own ‘Blog Rules’. I had promised to steer clear of these controversial topics by not volunteering my opinions. Looks like I just can’t keep my opinions to myself or let’s say guys like Sterling keep provoking me. It has been widely reported that the owner of LA Clippers, one Sterling made some disparaging remarks about black people in a phone call to his girl friend. I must admit, it happening in the US and in basketball that I do not devotedly follow, I shrugged my shoulders a bit. Then in quick succession I got to know of two other events, FC Barcelona's Dani Alves' defying stunt of eating a banana that had been thrown at him and the matter of the Ugandan Blogger who claims she was denied entry to the Irish Pub Bubbles O'leary in Kampala on the basis of the colour of her skin. These two stories got me going again and for the latter, a small part of me began to wonder, how t...