BBC Sorry For Inexplicable Racism
It's been a scandalous old year for broadcast media, hasn't it?
There was the huge phone-in competition furore, which suggested to shocking effect that – gasp – people in television may not tell the truth on a regular basis, and that the rigid integrity of naming a Blue Peter cat or trying to win a pikey holiday on GMTV may be called into question.
Bigger than that, though, was the Celebrity Big Brother racism row, during which Volkswagen-with-lipstick Jade Goody got into all sorts of trouble because of her constant hassling of fellow contestant Shilpa Shetty. Mind you, it's not as if such ignorant views seemed particularly surprising when they spewed out of Jade's mouth – she is, after all, a cretin of almost biblical proportions whose sole brain cell is mostly occupied by deciding which brand of lard to inject next.
It's not as if some nice, middle-class, well-educated BBC presenter was spouting such drivel.
Until now.
Radio 2 presenter Sarah Kennedy has found herself in a spot of bother after she decided to share the following insight live on air. Something about, y'know, not being able to see black people in the dark and all that:
"You know what happened to me yesterday. It was this black guy. It's lucky he opened his mouth to yawn or do something and I saw him. He was wearing a black hat, black clothes and he was just invisible."
Amazingly, this isn't the first time that Kennedy has launched into such a diatribe. In a 2000 discussion about genetics, she baffled listeners by claiming that black people make good runners because:
"…they are used to being chased by lions."
Christ. Those BBC funding cuts must really have taken hold. What was once the cross-media pride of the nation has now devolved into the sort of puerile babble you'd usually find taking place between two blokes called Daz at a particularly dodgy branch of Wetherspoons.
The BBC has issued an apology. But that isn't enough. Hecklerspray demands a human sacrifice. How about Chris Moyles? We'll clear out Trafalgar Square, put a gallows in there, and put a note in our diaries next Wednesday afternoon: 'spectate at an entirely justified hanging'.
Then add another three weeks for the cremation, obviously.
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