That’s what I and many think of Mr Sepp Blater, over the remarks he made regarding racism in football.
The reason I believe he should go is simple – racism is alive in football and is another form of bullying.
There is no place for bullying and bullies in today’s society.
Bullies and bullying in any shape or form should never be tolerated.
Personally, I would of thought after the release of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, in the late 1800’s we all would have realised why bullies and bullying must be taken seriously.
We’ve all seen programmes of the churchman/woman who, it turns out, is secretly abusing their spouse or children in their care, while they have to deal with more pain being heaped on them by members of the public and people in their family disbelieving them.
My heart goes out to them, as anyone who has experienced bullying knows (as I have at my first university and at one workplace where I got the job the bully wanted for her friend) it does undermine your performance.
The pain of what I experienced at those places will remain with me forever.
So for Sepp to say such highly offensive remarks, which included him denying that racism is an issue in football, is sheer idiocy.
I really believe it’s time for him to go, but if there is any form of redemption for Blatter, then this link (here) is it!
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I’m glad a professional football player, such as Liverpool FC’s Luis S, has been charged with racism by the Football Association (FA).
Until something like this happens, racism in football will never be taken or dealt with seriously in the UK.
I don’t condone violence but I’m aware that until Mr Eric Cantona lashed out against a Crystal Palace supporter in the early 1990’s racism in football in England and Wales simply wasn’t taken seriously.
So whatever the outcome, again I give full credit for the FA for having the courage to take a stand against racism.
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On a sad note, I would like to say goodbye to cricketer Basil D’Oliveira who was a real gentleman who stood up for all sportsmen.
It was his attempted barring from representing England in the 1960s that led to the rest of the world blackballing South Africa from international sport until they got rid of Apartheid (state approved racism) by having a multi-racial election for all in 1994.
Ironically enough he would have been a member of the race group called Coloured, who were third class citizens after the whites, many believed themselves to be the master race.
The Asians were next – many of who did look down on the next two races.
The coloureds were the third class citizens, many of who then looked down on the Blacks - Nelson Mandela and bishop Desmond Tutu to mention a few.
The other racial groups, not just the Whites, called black people kaffir – which is a racist term for black people.
So rest in peace, Mr D’Oliveira, you sleep with the stars tonight.
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Light and Peace
Andria
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
I’m very happy!
That’s because England, in terms of football, has done so well – I’m proud of every single one of our players.
The one-nil victory against Spain on Saturday wasn’t brilliant.
On that match, Frank Lampard simply took the opportunity of the ball going his way.
Nevertheless it was a good result against the world champions and made me wish I had kept my white cowboy hat with the England flag.
So to see us win yesterday against Sweden, once again it was one-nil, against a team we haven’t won against in years, made me realise just how determined and focused our current team is.
As for the age factor, I believe it was a good mix of young and mature, ambition and determination to represent your country on an international stage.
Well done Fabio Capello, you’re a star for getting the strategy right which equalled the correct result.
Yes it was a boring match but I believe that was due to both teams being on an even par with each other.
Chelsea is playing at home this Sunday against Liverpool – now that’s a match that will be exciting.
Let’s face it, many Kop fans still haven’t forgiven Fernando for leaving them for the Londoners in blue.
Considering it hasn’t worked for him at Chelsea (yet) there will be no complaints from Chelsea’s fans if Mr Lampard did the same thing he did to the Spanish last weekend!
Light & Peace
Andria
PS don’t hesitate to visit my other site by clicking here.
The one-nil victory against Spain on Saturday wasn’t brilliant.
On that match, Frank Lampard simply took the opportunity of the ball going his way.
Nevertheless it was a good result against the world champions and made me wish I had kept my white cowboy hat with the England flag.
So to see us win yesterday against Sweden, once again it was one-nil, against a team we haven’t won against in years, made me realise just how determined and focused our current team is.
As for the age factor, I believe it was a good mix of young and mature, ambition and determination to represent your country on an international stage.
Well done Fabio Capello, you’re a star for getting the strategy right which equalled the correct result.
Yes it was a boring match but I believe that was due to both teams being on an even par with each other.
Chelsea is playing at home this Sunday against Liverpool – now that’s a match that will be exciting.
Let’s face it, many Kop fans still haven’t forgiven Fernando for leaving them for the Londoners in blue.
Considering it hasn’t worked for him at Chelsea (yet) there will be no complaints from Chelsea’s fans if Mr Lampard did the same thing he did to the Spanish last weekend!
Light & Peace
Andria
PS don’t hesitate to visit my other site by clicking here.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
A heartfelt message to all English students studying at an English university
While you exercise your democratic right to demonstrate today, I can assure you it is better being a student now than it was during the 1990s.
Bullying was rife in places of further/higher education and workplaces until the turn of the century, when the European Union Human Rights Act came into play.
Even then, it wasn’t until the change in employment rights in 2006 that all people got the protection they deserve, at both work and all education institutions.
The sad truth is many students and people at work committed suicide. It really was that bad.
Even when many appealed to the student advisor or others for help, if the advisor was close friends of the students/people you were complaining about, it was made clear they didn’t want to know, saying to one patronisingly: “You just need to make new friends.”
Sadly even when many graduated, many former students/employees still had their former tormentors causing trouble, such as sending poisonous letters or ensuring their references were spiteful, despite the clear fact their former employees were terrible to them and had a long list of people leaving beforehand after receiving one public humiliation too many.
This was also the case with many hairdressing apprentices and students who were dealing with fellow students who were happy to pay a contibution towards, say a sports class, when other students were operating those classes but found ways not to pay if they don't like the new student taking over.
In such cases, it was only when the police, the courts or other legal enforcers were involved, that such behavior was finally dealt with.
Some people were exposed in the newspapers as being unsuitable men/women who clearly did abuse their authority.
None of today’s protestors will go through an experience like Tom Brown’s Schooldays. For more information about this, which was clearly based on the author’s experience at an educational establishment, click here.
I’m so grateful this is no longer the case.
Such bullying destroyed good people and prevented others in achieving their true potential in life.
Again, many men and women, boys and girls, simply couldn’t cope with the added belief that you must have a ‘stiff upper lip’.
Now, quite rightfully, that’s seen as nonsense.
I’m so glad it’s finally recognised that bullying can have a dramatic effect on people, years after the incident.
So as you protest, please remember, there may not have been any tutorial fees in the 1990s but you certainly paid for it in another way.
Not everybody can be Mr/Ms Popular.
Light and Peace
Andria
PS please don’t hesitate to visit my other site by clicking here.
Bullying was rife in places of further/higher education and workplaces until the turn of the century, when the European Union Human Rights Act came into play.
Even then, it wasn’t until the change in employment rights in 2006 that all people got the protection they deserve, at both work and all education institutions.
The sad truth is many students and people at work committed suicide. It really was that bad.
Even when many appealed to the student advisor or others for help, if the advisor was close friends of the students/people you were complaining about, it was made clear they didn’t want to know, saying to one patronisingly: “You just need to make new friends.”
Sadly even when many graduated, many former students/employees still had their former tormentors causing trouble, such as sending poisonous letters or ensuring their references were spiteful, despite the clear fact their former employees were terrible to them and had a long list of people leaving beforehand after receiving one public humiliation too many.
This was also the case with many hairdressing apprentices and students who were dealing with fellow students who were happy to pay a contibution towards, say a sports class, when other students were operating those classes but found ways not to pay if they don't like the new student taking over.
In such cases, it was only when the police, the courts or other legal enforcers were involved, that such behavior was finally dealt with.
Some people were exposed in the newspapers as being unsuitable men/women who clearly did abuse their authority.
None of today’s protestors will go through an experience like Tom Brown’s Schooldays. For more information about this, which was clearly based on the author’s experience at an educational establishment, click here.
I’m so grateful this is no longer the case.
Such bullying destroyed good people and prevented others in achieving their true potential in life.
Again, many men and women, boys and girls, simply couldn’t cope with the added belief that you must have a ‘stiff upper lip’.
Now, quite rightfully, that’s seen as nonsense.
I’m so glad it’s finally recognised that bullying can have a dramatic effect on people, years after the incident.
So as you protest, please remember, there may not have been any tutorial fees in the 1990s but you certainly paid for it in another way.
Not everybody can be Mr/Ms Popular.
Light and Peace
Andria
PS please don’t hesitate to visit my other site by clicking here.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Rest in Peace Joe Frazier
He was a great boxer and we will not see the likes of him again.
One of my favourite fights is the knockout he had against George Foreman in Jamaica in 1973.
There’s nothing more I can say about this man, so please check out these links, which I feel show his greatness, here and here.
Light and Peace
Andria
Also, don't hesitate to check out my other site by clicking here.
One of my favourite fights is the knockout he had against George Foreman in Jamaica in 1973.
There’s nothing more I can say about this man, so please check out these links, which I feel show his greatness, here and here.
Light and Peace
Andria
Also, don't hesitate to check out my other site by clicking here.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Well, well, oh!
Monday, 31 October 2011
In defence of Stan The Man
I never thought I would be championing Mr Collymore.
I remember his unhelpful remarks about Mr Drogba at Stamford Bridge, during the UEFA semi-final match against Barcelona.
But I do agree with what he has said The People newspaper yesterday about racism and football.
Regardless as to what John Terry and Anton Ferdinand claim, the Football Association must act in a decisive manner in dealing with this issue.
There was another incident a few weeks ago regarding Manchester United’s Patrice Evra and Liverpool FC forward Luis Suarez.
Mr Evra claimed he was racially taunted by the Liverpool ace.
Yet I have noticed in both incidents the Football Association have remained silent over the issue.
This, the silence, is what is unacceptable.
I will never condone violence of any sort in football but I’m aware it was only when a another (now retired) Manchester United player - Eric Cantona – did a kung-fu attack on a so-called Crystal Palace fan that racism in football was seen as the repulsive Cancer it is.
It’s not banter to insult someone because of their race or sexuality.
Perhaps we need Mr Cantona (now happily re-married and establishing himself as an actor) to speak publicly again to get something done about racism, sexism and anti-homophobic behaviour that’s still in this wonderful sport.
When I did some reporting at the demolition of the original Wembley Stadium, I was on the media bus and I can assure you, the racism I heard from the reporters, many of whom worked on national newspapers was horrible.
They said unprintable words about Jamaicans and Somalians, when after seven minutes of hearing this, I took off my glove (it was a cold day) and exaggeratedly lifted up my hand, revealing there was a black person on board.
All of a sudden, the room went silent. I then got off the bus, remembering I had to remove something off the table I had written on.
So I went back, removed the item of rubbish, looked at the reporters ( who were all male, middle-aged and British) who had said the remarks in their faces, turned back and left the media bus.
The reason? I had come to Wembley to do a job and that was to get the views and opinions of the residents of Wembley, which has a high proportion of people of many races.
In other words, I came to do a job and I left the area completing my job.
I could have just shrugged my shoulders at the incident and said oh well, I’m not a Jamaican or of Somalian origin, so those remarks don’t bother me.
But as a member of the human race, it does, as that is what it comes down to at the end of the day.
We have all got to live in this world together and whenever we all like it or not, unless you’re rich enough to buy the whole street, we will have interaction with people of different races and sexuality.
In other words, time must be called on unacceptable behaviour – meaning ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Not just racism, sexism and anti-homophobic behaviour but favouritism too.
As this also leads to the opposite of valuing people for their worth, on all aspects and sides.
Light and Peace
Andria
PS, don’t forget to visit my other site by clicking here.
I remember his unhelpful remarks about Mr Drogba at Stamford Bridge, during the UEFA semi-final match against Barcelona.
But I do agree with what he has said The People newspaper yesterday about racism and football.
Regardless as to what John Terry and Anton Ferdinand claim, the Football Association must act in a decisive manner in dealing with this issue.
There was another incident a few weeks ago regarding Manchester United’s Patrice Evra and Liverpool FC forward Luis Suarez.
Mr Evra claimed he was racially taunted by the Liverpool ace.
Yet I have noticed in both incidents the Football Association have remained silent over the issue.
This, the silence, is what is unacceptable.
I will never condone violence of any sort in football but I’m aware it was only when a another (now retired) Manchester United player - Eric Cantona – did a kung-fu attack on a so-called Crystal Palace fan that racism in football was seen as the repulsive Cancer it is.
It’s not banter to insult someone because of their race or sexuality.
Perhaps we need Mr Cantona (now happily re-married and establishing himself as an actor) to speak publicly again to get something done about racism, sexism and anti-homophobic behaviour that’s still in this wonderful sport.
When I did some reporting at the demolition of the original Wembley Stadium, I was on the media bus and I can assure you, the racism I heard from the reporters, many of whom worked on national newspapers was horrible.
They said unprintable words about Jamaicans and Somalians, when after seven minutes of hearing this, I took off my glove (it was a cold day) and exaggeratedly lifted up my hand, revealing there was a black person on board.
All of a sudden, the room went silent. I then got off the bus, remembering I had to remove something off the table I had written on.
So I went back, removed the item of rubbish, looked at the reporters ( who were all male, middle-aged and British) who had said the remarks in their faces, turned back and left the media bus.
The reason? I had come to Wembley to do a job and that was to get the views and opinions of the residents of Wembley, which has a high proportion of people of many races.
In other words, I came to do a job and I left the area completing my job.
I could have just shrugged my shoulders at the incident and said oh well, I’m not a Jamaican or of Somalian origin, so those remarks don’t bother me.
But as a member of the human race, it does, as that is what it comes down to at the end of the day.
We have all got to live in this world together and whenever we all like it or not, unless you’re rich enough to buy the whole street, we will have interaction with people of different races and sexuality.
In other words, time must be called on unacceptable behaviour – meaning ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Not just racism, sexism and anti-homophobic behaviour but favouritism too.
As this also leads to the opposite of valuing people for their worth, on all aspects and sides.
Light and Peace
Andria
PS, don’t forget to visit my other site by clicking here.
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
So Brent Council thinks it has won
The High Court judge dealing with the Judicial Review to save six London Borough of Brent libraries has ruled in their favour.
Tokyngton library has been closed, along with five other libraries.
But the council fails to remember mistakes of the past.
I remember when this borough was dubbed “Looney Left” by national newspapers in the early 1980s.
The fact that one could read banned books in this borough’s libraries, such as Spycatcher by Peter Wright (which the Thatcher government tried to block which, not surpsingly, made this a best-seller) made this London borough great, as it refused to bend to central government rule.
I also remember the Government inspectors watching me and other pupils at Preston Manor High (now community) School.
But few publications stated their ruling - there was nothing wrong with this council so far as our education – Kenneth Baker (who commissioned this) eat your heart out.
When the council shut all school libraries in the late 1980s with the intention of selling them off, parents in this borough wouldn’t send their kids to be educated here.
They opted to educate them privately or in schools/colleges outside Brent.
Yet all of this is likely to happen again, thanks to the way they are shutting down (clearly with the intention of selling them off) six of this council’s libraries.
There has to be another way as this isn’t it.
Please don’t hesitate to visit my other site, by clicking here.
Light and Peace
Andria
Tokyngton library has been closed, along with five other libraries.
But the council fails to remember mistakes of the past.
I remember when this borough was dubbed “Looney Left” by national newspapers in the early 1980s.
The fact that one could read banned books in this borough’s libraries, such as Spycatcher by Peter Wright (which the Thatcher government tried to block which, not surpsingly, made this a best-seller) made this London borough great, as it refused to bend to central government rule.
I also remember the Government inspectors watching me and other pupils at Preston Manor High (now community) School.
But few publications stated their ruling - there was nothing wrong with this council so far as our education – Kenneth Baker (who commissioned this) eat your heart out.
When the council shut all school libraries in the late 1980s with the intention of selling them off, parents in this borough wouldn’t send their kids to be educated here.
They opted to educate them privately or in schools/colleges outside Brent.
Yet all of this is likely to happen again, thanks to the way they are shutting down (clearly with the intention of selling them off) six of this council’s libraries.
There has to be another way as this isn’t it.
Please don’t hesitate to visit my other site, by clicking here.
Light and Peace
Andria
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