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Rascist KM from the Scum slates people from Liverpool on the eve of Hillsborough Anniversary

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Ross Barkley: The Lying Rag article 'racist and prehistoric' says Liverpool mayor

The mayor of Liverpool has condemned a newspaper article about Everton midfielder Ross Barkley as "racist and prehistoric".

Barkley, 23, was punched in a Liverpool bar last weekend in what his lawyer described as an "unprovoked attack".
Sun columnist, and former editor, Kelvin MacKenzie has compared Barkley to a "gorilla at the zoo".

Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said he has reported the article to the police for a "racial slur". One of Barkley's grandfathers was born in Nigeria. Merseyside Police confirmed they were investigating the "full circumstances" of the "racial hate crime" allegation about "comments written about a third party".

In Friday's article, MacKenzie targets both England international Barkley and the city of Liverpool, saying:
  • Barkley is "one of our dimmest footballers", also calling him "thick".
  • Barkley's eyes make him "certain not only are the lights not on, there is definitely nobody at home", adding: "I get a similar feeling when seeing a gorilla at the zoo."
  • Men with similar "pay packets" in Liverpool are "drug dealers" and in prison.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Anderson said: "Not only is it racist in a sense that he is of mixed-race descent, equally it's a racial stereotype of Liverpool. It is racist and prehistoric."

Anderson later tweeted to say he had reported the article to Merseyside Police and the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

MacKenzie was editor of The Lying Rag when it published a front-page article headlined 'Hillsborough: The Truth' in the aftermath of the 1989 disaster at Sheffield Wednesday's football stadium. The article claimed Liverpool fans were to blame for the tragedy, in which 96 people died. MacKenzie apologised in 2012. Last year's landmark Hillsborough inquests recorded that the 96 fans were unlawfully killed and that Liverpool supporters at the FA Cup semi-final had played no role in causing the tragedy. This Saturday, 15 April, marks the 28th anniversary of the disaster.

Burnley midfielder Joey Barton, who was an Everton youth player, tweeted: "Those comments about Ross Barkley, a young working-class lad, are disgusting. Then add in the fact he is mixed race! It becomes outrageous."

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore tweeted: "Implied racism at its finest."

A Sun spokesperson said: "Columnists are supposed to have strong opinions that provoke debate among the readers. However their views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper."

BBC Sport has contacted Everton, Barkley's representatives and Merseyside Police for comment.
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I would sue the shit out of him.
 
I didnt know he was mixed race. I doubt anyone did. And I think its WANK to suggest racism.
I get its McKenzie but behave.
 
Oncy said:
I didnt know he was mixed race. I doubt anyone did. And I think its WANK to suggest racism.
I get its McKenzie but behave.
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Yeah I didnt think it was overtly racist

I did however think it painted people from Liverpool as thick, ugly scroungers who are borderline sub human

THAT'S the issue for me.
 
Oncy said:
I didnt know he was mixed race. I doubt anyone did. And I think its WANK to suggest racism.
I get its McKenzie but behave.
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Alongside the article, The Lying Rag published adjoining pictures on their website with the caption "Could Everton's Ross Barkley represent the missing link between man and beast?" The picture was later removed.
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A screenshot of that, and McKenzie goes down. Do I believe he's a racist? Well,

 
Hardly surprising is it.
Everything about him and his colleagues scream dirty rats.
 
Is anybody really surprised? I think Mackenzie genuinely, with every bone in his bone loathes the people of Liverpool.
 
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Fabio said:
Yeah I didnt think it was overtly racist

I did however think it painted people from Liverpool as thick, ugly scroungers who are borderline sub human

THAT'S the issue for me.
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Im not saying hes not a cunt. Im saying crying racist over this is bollocks. Hes a fucking white guy. And bringing up some 1/8th or 1/16th black heritage is bollocks.

The issue is the slur of Liverpool not this blag racism shite.
 
I see Collymore called it implied racism.

I mean what the actual fuck.

Ross Berkeley is WHITE AS FUCK
 
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@JohnCleese: Working for Murdoch,you become so inured to lying,censorship by editors, and sexual harassment,that you view any flicker of decency as piety
 
I'm not at all sure some posts above have it right about the racism bit. Mackenzie is pond life at its lowest but he's well capable of deciding how far to go down the racist road without openly putting himself in the wrong. I certainly knew Barkley was mixed race and I'm as far from being a dedicated follower of that club as it's possible to be. If you genuinely think there isn't any racist connotation about Mackenzie's reference to "gorillas", I have to say I don't agree.
 
After all the nasty vile evil shit this guy has spouted for decades he finally gets pulled up on a technicality?

You can say wtf you want about immigrants and scousers but you just can't compare a guys whose as white as they come to a gorilla cos one of his grandparents was Black.

The straw that broke the camels back, here's hoping he sinks, along with that rag and everyone associated with it
 
The racism accusations are a stretch but I hope they stick because he's hardly going to get done for any of the other stuff he said, which is just as unpleasant.

Does anyone have a link to the full article?
 
It reminds me of Enfield v Mr Al-Amin. The council thought his tennants were a sham, and testified that neighbours never saw a tennant and did see an Arab looking man now and again who seemed to be the landlord.

Mr Al-Amin brought in dantes. I walked into court. Pointed to my client. "Your honours, he's black". Then beat the shit out of the council for the rest of that glorious afternoon.

If you make an assumption about race and get it wrong, then you have nothing in court, oops sorry ain't no defence.
 
I have a feeling his 1/16th black heritage will have been mentioned in an article before, back when he was young and being hyped up as the next Gascoigne. It is likely the thick scum published that fact to look non-racist because see, see, look at us, we are proud of and celebrating Barkley who is black and blah blah. That will be their undoing.
 
Have to disagree with Jules on this. I doubt the cunt knew anything about the lad's distant Nigerian heritage.

However, for once (actually for the first time ever) I'm pretty happy with fat Joe.

There was no way to get him done for his other disgusting comments in that article, but he saw a way to portray the cunt as a racist cunt instead of just a fucking cunt, & used that instead.

Sure, it's pretty much a technicality, but I'm all for making this twats life as miserable & difficult as possible, & making him curse every moment he chose to cross scousers.
 
FoxForceFive said:
Have to disagree with Jules on this. I doubt the cunt knew anything about the lad's distant Nigerian heritage.

However, for once (actually for the first time ever) I'm pretty happy with fat Joe.

There was no way to get him done for his other disgusting comments in that article, but he saw a way to portray the cunt as a racist cunt instead of just a fucking cunt, & used that instead.

Sure, it's pretty much a technicality, but I'm all for making this twats life as miserable & difficult as possible, & making him curse every moment he chose to cross scousers.
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At the time, there was the usual debate in the papers about whether Barkley would play for England as he was eligible to play for Nigeria too. So it's there, I'm sure the scum stuck their grubby boil infested nose into that debate too. What are they realistically going to tell the court? Oh sorry, we forgot the words that came out of our own mouths because reasons. You know how that will play out?

Dantes: You forgot?
KM: Yes.
Dantes: Is it fair to say that you can forget why you said something in the past, but that it is harder to forget that you said it at all.
KM: Silence
Dantes: Answer the god damn question.
KM: Yes, that is fair to say.
Dantes: So why should this court believe your evidence about your reasons for why you compared the claimant to a gorilla.
KM: You motherfucker
Dantes: No further questions.
 
Judge Jules said:
I'm not at all sure some posts above have it right about the racism bit. Mackenzie is pond life at its lowest but he's well capable of deciding how far to go down the racist road without openly putting himself in the wrong. I certainly knew Barkley was mixed race and I'm as far from being a dedicated follower of that club as it's possible to be. If you genuinely think there isn't any racist connotation about Mackenzie's reference to "gorillas", I have to say I don't agree.
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Completely. Again, I knew Barkley was mixed race, I'm not sure why anyone would bother their arse to remotely defend that aspect of the article, it's blatantly racist. And if, for some inexplicable reason, McKenzie didn't know about his background, he should have done his homework before going there. Though let's be honest, he should never have gone there, monkey jibes in football come from and promote only one obvious train of thought, no excuse.
 
I knew he was mixed race, so surely the editors of the paper could do a quick check. They either did a quick check and didn't care, knew already, or are wholly incompetent. Probably all. Fuck them.

For what it's worth, I'm the same amount of Nigerian as Barkley (1/4), and if that article was written about me, I'd definitely be offended.
 
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